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Matthew Toseland wrote:
> Last year we got 4 SoC students. This year it is unlikely we will get
> that many. So here are my current top 4:
>
> 1. More NAT traversal code. Universal Plug and Play, NAT-PMP and all
> sorts of related stuff. If student gets through it really quickly I'm
> sure we will be able to give him more related work to do.
>
> 2. Sorting out the plugins system. I won't have time to do this until
> after opennet is implemented and deployed and load balancing is sorted
> out. This could be a while. However client/plugin authors depend on a
> usable plugin system, and by making a self-contained and secure plugin
> system we could greatly encourage more innovative apps. I am now of the
> opinion that a secure plugin system - with various limits - is entirely
> feasible. But even separating the API from the internals of the node
> would be a great step forward. All that takes is completing my work so
> far on the new plugins API, and implementing it.
>
> 3. Many different ways of introducing people to the darknet. One-time
> invite references, passwords etc. Would need to be concretised into a
> priority list of mechanisms.
>
> 4. Better searching: Make Librarian use the new format, extend the new
> format to support splitting properly, bundle a user friendly spider,
> improve the spider's performance, make it recognise when a file isn't
> going to be HTML/text based on the MIME type of the file, make it pick
> up Frost posts and provide links to Worst etc etc.
>
> This is assuming that nextgens, me or somebody else gets around to
> implementing at least STS before summer; if not then STS would be a high
> priority item.
>
> The page:
> http://wiki.freenetproject.org/SummerOfCode2007
I've showed one lecturer in my uni the SOC page, and he seemed to think it was
a rather
cool thing, so maybe he'll do some advertising, he's normally a good person to
look out
for students' interests, and i'll do some more advertising also.
- Volodya
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