I'll definitely try to participate next summer, as I'll turn 18 soon :)
On 11/1/09, Zero3 <zero3 at zerosplayground.dk> wrote:
> Matthew Toseland wrote:
>> Apologies for being the absolute last wrap-up! This year went really well,
>> we had 5 students, and they all (more or less) deserved their passes. We
>> had a much stronger selection process than in the first 2 years, requiring
>> some demonstration in the form of code: a new feature or a bugfix. So even
>> though most of the students were completely new to us, mostly they did
>> pretty well. One of our students had a work conflict, but this was
>> resolved satisfactorily.
>>
>> For the Googlers reading this, Freenet is an anonymous peer to peer system
>> with support for forums, browsing the internal web, filesharing etc, with
>> a focus on security and the option of running in "darknet" or
>> friend-to-friend mode. It is intended (at least by me) for people in
>> hostile environments (China, Iran etc) to express themselves freely, but
>> it is currently mostly used in the West by geeks, filesharers, etc.
>>
>> infinity0 and mikeb worked together on a new searching plugin, which we
>> have now deployed. infinity0's work was primarily on a new index format
>> (which works, but the spider needs more work), and on distributed indexing
>> (which doesn't yet), and mikeb mainly worked on improving the user
>> interface and adding essential features (simple non-infringing page
>> ranking algorithm, booleans, phrase matches etc). kurmi worked on new
>> filtering code for various formats, particularly a vastly improved CSS
>> filter, which needed considerable work to sort out all the parsing
>> perversities but is now merged (Freenet has to be very careful not to send
>> anything to the browser that might give the user's IP away via a web-bug).
>> ljb worked on more friend-to-friend functionality, his work is included in
>> current builds. sashee worked on making the web interface more dynamic,
>> including solving a long-running problem with image loading blocking the
>> browser (freenet has quite high latency!), using Google
> Web Toolkit; this branch has not yet been merged, but hopefully will be
> inside the next 6 months or so, it needs some tuning and debugging for slow
> browsers.
>>
>> Some of our students achieved less than expected IMHO but in more cases
>> there was a lot more work involved in the project than I expected, and the
>> students did really well. I have talked to most of them in the last month,
>> well after the programme was finished, and hopefully some of them will
>> continue to contribute at least occasionally. Best year yet, many thanks
>> to Google!
>
> /me *claps*
>
> - Zero3
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