Hi, I'm a french student of computer science at ENSIMAG[1]. I am looking for your feeling on my proposal for working in your organization as part of the Google Summer of Code.
I have been using the Freenet software for various reasons for a long time and I find it to be a very interesting endeavour, although not easy to setup. It is also not very straightforward to use on the long term and redistribute under Linux, especially with distributions which enforce high levels of good practice and standard conformance like the Debian-based distributions. I am very interested by your project idea to overhaul the installation packages. A way to automatize the installation and ref gathering process would be a very interesting task to me. It would also greatly lower the barrier of entry for less technically minded users as the Tor project achieved in its distinct field. I am a long time Linux user and sysadmin and now have a fairly good experience with Linux packaging. I have made packages for private deployment of custom software on Linux servers. I am also currently working on a large multiple distributions packaging project for Oberthur Card Systems as part of work done through my school's Junior Enterprise[2]. I have access to a large range of architectures and operating systems with my schools computer labs. I have experience with navigating around fairly large C/C++ codebases, including as part of packaging work. For peculiar reasons, I have not done a lot of packaging work for free software and I'd gladly reuse my experience for public interest. I'm looking forward to any advice about this proposal and am available for more details, including schedule. Regards. Obey Arthur Liu [1] <http://ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr/servlet/com.univ.utils.LectureFichierJoint?CODE=1194595034529&LANGUE=0> [2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_enterprise>
