On 10/04/15 14:29, Luke wrote: > On 04/09/2015 09:27 PM, Steve Dougherty wrote: >> Google Summer of Code didn't work out for us, but maybe we can have a >> Freenet Summer of Toad? It's not certain yet, but Matthew might be >> interested in working 35-hour weeks over the summer for FPI. He says he >> wants at least $6k for 8 weeks but preferably $10k for 12 weeks. Paying >> this while maintaining current operations will require a fundraiser. Are >> people interested in doing this? > Fundraising is good, but re-occuring fundraising is better for the long > term. You could try to use GratiPay or Patreon. I know of a few > opensource projects that have had success with this. Re GratiPay, for years, every time we tried a payment method other than Paypal, nobody used it. But maybe times have changed. Certainly people have used Bitcoin.
People have suggested Flattr. I don't think it was deployed. Where would it go? It might well distract attention from things that produce more income. Re Patreon, it's worth looking at Kickstarter-type stuff, but it means writing a pitch, probably a video, and ideally having goodies to give people. It also means finding a suitable host that allows OSS projects and things that arguably resemble social networks (i.e. not Kickstarter). And if it's going to be a regular event, we need to repeat that every year with a different project. Currently we do not have the resources to produce a video, and we don't have much in the way of unique goodies to give away (we do have a shop). > As far as critical areas of work, documentation should be #1 since it's > totally confusing to new comers. Secondly however, I'd like to see some > official implementation of transport plugins. Firewalls have already > figured out how to completely block freenet otherwise. Transport plugins are written by a GSoC student (Chetan), but need major refactoring and fixing of concurrency issues (plus implementing stream/TCP plugins), and touch a huge amount of fred code. So it'd be another code bomb. This is probably not what we need at the moment given the problems we've had with getting last summer's work deployed, and then with Xor's changes to FCP! Granted I might be able to break it into a series of pull requests, but it would still be very invasive... The more serious point is that a determined ISP will always be able to block Freenet, period. Traffic flow analysis is cheap nowadays, and no amount of stego can get us away from that. Unblockability is dead. Sorry, but that's the way it is, and has been for some time. On the upside, if we accept that, we can implement pretty impressive anonymity on darknet using published algorithms.
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