Re: [freenet-dev] Proposal for a democratic process to efficiently allocate resources (including the $25k)

2016-05-03 Thread Ian Clarke
. A description for the method needs to fit on a 14pt A5 page. This wasn't just a description of the method, it was an argument in favor of using the method, and some background on how I came up with the method. A simple description of the method would be much shorter. Ian. Ian Clarke Founder, The Freenet

Re: [freenet-dev] Proposal for a democratic process to efficiently allocate resources (including the $25k)

2016-05-03 Thread Ian Clarke
really don't play much of a role in the planning process so probably not much point in overthinking them. Each task is assessed individually, both in terms of value provided, and effort required. Ian. -- Ian Clarke Stacks - The AI CFO for your personal finances http://trystacks.com

[freenet-dev] Proposal for a democratic process to efficiently allocate resources (including the $25k)

2016-05-03 Thread Ian Clarke
be implemented easily enough with intelligent use of Google Docs and a little bit of elbow grease, which I'm ok with providing if others can help. https://gist.github.com/sanity/4cf3b1c3484bdb9926d71bc9c4fc0341 Thoughts? Ian. Ian Clarke Founder, The Freenet Project Email: i...@freenetproject.org

[freenet-dev] DuckDuckGo has donated $25k to Freenet

2016-05-03 Thread Ian Clarke
It should now be safe to announce that DuckDuckGo has donated $25k to Freenet. Will follow-up with discussion with my thoughts on some processes we can use to decide how to allocate it. Ian. -- Ian Clarke Founder, The Freenet Project Email: i...@freenetproject.org

[freenet-dev] Law-enforcement lying to courts about how Freenet works

2016-05-01 Thread Ian Clarke
on this subject? If it is well-written we might even be able to get a site like http://arstechnica.com/ to publish it. Otherwise Medium.com might be another good vehicle. Ian. Ian Clarke Founder, The Freenet Project Email: i...@freenetproject.org ___ Devl mailing

Re: [freenet-dev] Berlin or close resident needed, Fundraising opportunity on May 2-5

2016-04-28 Thread Ian Clarke
me a mail about how you're easy to be contacted, for example your phone number, as this is next week already. Thanks & Greetings___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl Ian Clarke Stack

Re: [freenet-dev] Decentralized Web Summit in San Francisco, by the Internet Archive, June 8th

2016-04-20 Thread Ian
is more important because you don't want to step on each other, contradict each-other, or really say anything that's going to surprise the other person. And definitely try not to get into an argument on stage :) Ian. On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:51 AM, <x...@freenetproject.org> wrote: > O

[freenet-dev] Similarity between original SSK proposal and Bitcoin contracts

2016-02-04 Thread Ian Clarke
lved a stack based language with cryptographic primitives, just like the language used for Bitcoin contracts. I don't know if the Bitcoin approach was inspired by SSKs at all, I suspect more likely independent reinvention to solve a similar problem. Ian. -- Ian Clarke Founder, The Freenet Proj

Re: [freenet-dev] What blocks Freenet adoption?

2016-01-06 Thread Ian
like we do, then any discussion that leads to one is entirely appropriate in any project, and there is no reason anyone should be demotivated by it. Ian. ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl

Re: [freenet-dev] Applying for pro UX help for free

2016-01-06 Thread Ian Clarke
https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -- Ian Clarke Blog: http://blog.locut.us/ ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl

Re: [freenet-dev] What blocks Freenet adoption?

2016-01-05 Thread Ian Clarke
s me with no spare time. If I could set aside a few days then I probably would do it, although I worry that people would then be angry that I've replaced some of the recent work on the site. Thoughts? Ian. -- Ian Clarke Blog: http://blog.locut.us/ ___

Re: [freenet-dev] What blocks Freenet adoption?

2016-01-05 Thread Ian Clarke
personally. Most other projects manage this, I mean, almost every bug report could potentially be interpreted as criticism of someone's work, and yet for whatever reason that doesn't seem to happen in other projects. Ian. -- Ian Clarke Blog: http://blog.locut.us/ __

Re: [freenet-dev] What blocks Freenet adoption?

2016-01-05 Thread Ian Clarke
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Ian Clarke <ian.cla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I said that the redesign was a bit improvement > Unfortunate typo - "bit" -> "big" -- Ian Clarke Blog: http://blog.locut.us/ ___ Dev

Re: [freenet-dev] New UPnP2 plugin

2015-12-27 Thread Ian
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Matthew Toseland <t...@amphibian.dyndns.org > wrote: > On 26/12/15 16:03, Ian wrote: > > Best practice is to use the logging system, using System.out.println() > for > > logging is almost universally regarded as bad practice, many s

Re: [freenet-dev] New UPnP2 plugin

2015-12-26 Thread Ian
dates a lot of the logging frameworks, however we should probably be using one of the numerous logging libraries like Logback, as they are more flexible. Ian. On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Xiaoyu Huang <007...@gmail.com> wrote: > System.out.println() is for easier debugging as I can see th

Re: [freenet-dev] New UPnP2 plugin

2015-12-25 Thread Ian
This looks great! I notice a lot of System.out.println()s in the code, do we not have a logging mechanism in Fred available for use by plugins? On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Xiaoyu Huang <007...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > As nextgens suggests, I write this plugin which is based on the

Re: [freenet-dev] New Freenet installer for Mac / FreenetTray v2.0.0

2015-12-15 Thread Ian
Hi Steve, just wanted to check in with you about this On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Ian <i...@locut.us> wrote: > Another minor thing: It appears to be starting Freenet automatically on > startup even when "Start Freenet Automatically" is unchecked in Settings. > > I

Re: [freenet-dev] Open Encryption projects receive half a million euros of Dutch government

2015-12-09 Thread Ian
; If anyone would like to give it a shot regardless of the above, it would > > probably most useful to contact the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. > > Their contact information is provided in [0]. > > > > All the best, > > Bert > > > > [0] > > > > > ht

Re: [freenet-dev] New Freenet installer for Mac / FreenetTray v2.0.0

2015-12-08 Thread Ian
work, very slick indeed! Ian. On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Stephen Oliver <st...@infincia.com> wrote: > Hey Ian, > > Which version of OS X are you running? > > That message is definitely unrelated (it’s from the Degrees weather app), > but putting “Freene

Re: [freenet-dev] New Freenet installer for Mac / FreenetTray v2.0.0

2015-12-08 Thread Ian
Another minor thing: It appears to be starting Freenet automatically on startup even when "Start Freenet Automatically" is unchecked in Settings. Is there somewhere else you'd like bugs reported, or is this thread ok? On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Ian <i...@locut.us> wrote:

[freenet-dev] Open Encryption projects receive half a million euros of Dutch government

2015-12-08 Thread Ian Clarke
Any Dutch Freeneters want to look into this? http://tweakers.net/nieuws/106723/open-encryptieprojecten-krijgen-half-miljoen-euro-van-nederlandse-overheid.html -- Ian Clarke Founder, The Freenet Project Email: i...@freenetproject.org ___ Devl mailing

Re: [freenet-dev] New Freenet installer for Mac / FreenetTray v2.0.0

2015-12-07 Thread Ian
Screenshots look great, but trying to launch it, looks like it may be crashing immediately. This error message may or may not be releated: 12/7/15 11:17:25.223 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (at.appscape.degrees.helper[37139]) LaunchServices returned a bundle URL that does not match with the

Re: [freenet-dev] First hop over Tor

2015-12-02 Thread Ian
using it in an emulator on top of Windows. I doubt it would be very popular. Ian. ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl

Re: [freenet-dev] Freenet Canary

2015-12-02 Thread Ian
*personal* feeling is > that the project has been lacking some sort of a "steel hand", > Stalin-style, ever since Ian had stepped down. > > Basically, what Freenet had shown in that regard is that management "by > committee" doesn't work for open-source projects j

Re: [freenet-dev] Freenet Rebooted (without rewriting everything, pay for opennet)

2015-11-30 Thread Ian Clarke
this just slow it down a lot further? Ian. -- Ian Clarke Blog: http://blog.locut.us/ ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl

Re: [freenet-dev] Bank account status

2015-11-17 Thread Ian Clarke
more things they hate. That's fine, be brutal. It's probably > also too long... > A great start, but definitely way too long, and quite repetitive (we tell them we need funds about 6 times!). We should remove any sentence that is repetitive or otherwise redundant. Ian. -- Ian Clarke Founder, T

[freenet-dev] Bank account status

2015-11-16 Thread Ian Clarke
s we could explore a KickStarter - but that would only work if it is to achieve something big and externally very visible (such as rebuilding FProxy using a modern JavaScript framework like Bootstrap/React and modernizing the installers). Thoughts? Ian. -- Ian Clarke Founder, The Freenet Projec

Re: [freenet-dev] Bank account status

2015-11-16 Thread Ian Clarke
replacement for exploring indiegogo/kickstarter > though. Something like that would still be good, it just strikes me as a > mid-term project, not a short term effort to get back on track. > > Cheers, > Dan > On Nov 16, 2015 10:54 AM, "xor" <x...@freenetproject.org>

Re: [freenet-dev] Project Status

2015-11-14 Thread Ian Clarke
I'm going to talk to Xor tomorrow, but under no circumstances can Freenet go into debt to anyone. As of right now, FPI has $1168.32 in our bank account, and $1515.77 in Paypal. Xor should not do any work that would exceed this combined amount. Ian. On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Arne

Re: [freenet-dev] Thoughts on website

2015-11-10 Thread Ian
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@web.de> wrote: > Am Montag, 9. November 2015, 12:33:21 schrieb Ian: > > I find it hard to believe that you're debating whether it is important > that > > a website is easy to read. This is self-evident. &g

Re: [freenet-dev] Thoughts on website

2015-11-09 Thread Ian
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@web.de> wrote: > Am Sonntag, 8. November 2015, 13:47:49 schrieb Ian: > > A website is there to be read > > This is already wrong. Our website is there to get people to install > Freenet and help them use i

Re: [freenet-dev] Thoughts on website

2015-11-08 Thread Ian
prompted me to do some research on color schemes which solidified my view that light on dark hurts readability. Ian. ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl

Re: [freenet-dev] Thoughts on website

2015-11-08 Thread Ian
On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@web.de> wrote: > Am Sonntag, 8. November 2015, 08:55:50 schrieb Ian: > Light on dark or dark on light is a minor point. I disagree, it is the single most obvious aspect of the design, the very first thing people

Re: [freenet-dev] Thoughts on website

2015-11-08 Thread Ian
? Poor documentation? Doesn't matter, you're not allowed to criticize. That's ridiculous. Multiple independent people have told us that the color scheme is a problem. You can stick your fingers in your ears and sing "la-la-la" if you want, but don't expect me to. Ian. __

Re: [freenet-dev] Thoughts on website

2015-11-08 Thread Ian
On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Juiceman <juicema...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Nov 8, 2015 2:48 PM, "Ian" <i...@locut.us> wrote: > > That's ridiculous. Multiple independent people have told us that the > color > > scheme is a problem. You can stick your fin

Re: [freenet-dev] Thoughts on website

2015-11-08 Thread Ian
anize their messaging. > That's a great idea. I2P's website is also pretty slick, I think we can get some good ideas from it too: https://geti2p.net/en/ Ian. ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl

Re: [freenet-dev] Thoughts on website

2015-11-07 Thread Ian
make any more sense than anything else you've said. Ian. ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl

Re: [freenet-dev] Thoughts on website

2015-11-07 Thread Ian
On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 2:28 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@web.de> wrote: > Am Freitag, 6. November 2015, 17:37:56 schrieb Ian: > > Originality might be important for art, but a website is a user-interface > > first, art (a distant) second. With a user inter

Re: [freenet-dev] Thoughts on website

2015-11-06 Thread Ian
convincing as your previous arguments, one of which is almost certainly factually incorrect, and the other is definitely factually incorrect. Ian. ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl

Re: [freenet-dev] Thoughts on website

2015-11-06 Thread Ian
nobody else does is a good thing, normally there is a good reason why nobody else is doing it. In this case, almost nobody does dark backgrounds because it makes the site hard to read. The tool fails to do it's job. Ian. ___ Devl mailing list De

Re: [freenet-dev] Thoughts on website

2015-11-06 Thread Ian
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 5:15 PM, xor <x...@freenetproject.org> wrote: > On Thursday, November 05, 2015 03:40:31 PM Ian wrote: > > Also, I think the current site is worse than the version during testing > due > > to the placement of the donation bar, which it is clear is

Re: [freenet-dev] Thoughts on website

2015-11-06 Thread Ian
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 5:33 PM, xor <x...@freenetproject.org> wrote: > On Thursday, November 05, 2015 03:35:30 PM Ian wrote: > > Really? It looks nothing like a typical Bootstrap site. I think it > might > > have been better to stick much more closely to the standa

Re: [freenet-dev] Thoughts on website

2015-11-05 Thread Ian
Reddit comments - which we didn't have back then. Also, I think the current site is worse than the version during testing due to the placement of the donation bar, which it is clear is causing significant confusion. Ian. ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetpr

Re: [freenet-dev] Thoughts on website

2015-11-05 Thread Ian Clarke
lopers without much design skill that have used it to very good effect. Ian. On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@web.de> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 4. November 2015, 22:56:40 schrieb Ian Clarke: > > This person put quite a bit of time into providing feedbac

Re: [freenet-dev] Thoughts on website

2015-11-05 Thread Ian
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Steve Dougherty <st...@asksteved.com> wrote: > This site is already using Bootstrap. > Really? It looks nothing like a typical Bootstrap site. I think it might have been better to stick much more closely to the standard Bootstrap CSS (eg. light backg

Re: [freenet-dev] Thoughts on website

2015-11-05 Thread Ian
context I'm working on a slideshow for something right now, and I've asked for feedback from a bunch of people, and they were able to point out many issues I was oblivious to. Ian. On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Ian <i...@locut.us> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Steve Doug

Re: [freenet-dev] Thoughts on website

2015-11-04 Thread Ian
gt; > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015, 10:39 AM Michael Grube <michael.gr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Should the website maybe also mention Freenet's 501c3 status near the > > donation bar? > > On Nov 4, 2015 10:34 AM, "Ian Clarke" <i...@freenetproject.org&

Re: [freenet-dev] Thoughts on website

2015-11-04 Thread Ian Clarke
This person put quite a bit of time into providing feedback on the new site. Probably not stuff we want to hear, but very valuable: https://www.reddit.com/r/design_critiques/comments/3ri38h/we_recently_redesigned_our_website_would_love/cwoq0n4 On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Ian Clarke &l

[freenet-dev] Thoughts on website

2015-11-04 Thread Ian Clarke
far less explaining to do. I've submitted it for feedback here: https://www.reddit.com/r/design_critiques/comments/3ri38h/we_recently_redesigned_our_website_would_love/ Ian. -- Ian Clarke Founder, The Freenet Project Email: i...@freenetproject.org

Re: [freenet-dev] Multiple implementations considered harmful was Re: Project Status

2015-11-03 Thread Ian
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Florent Daigniere < nextg...@freenetproject.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 10:43 -0600, Ian wrote: > Most of their funding comes from the government and they have ensured > that their technology can be used by them (those sponsors). > A lo

Re: [freenet-dev] Multiple implementations considered harmful was Re: Project Status

2015-11-03 Thread Ian
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Bob Ham <r...@settrans.net> wrote: > On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 10:43 -0600, Ian wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Bob Ham <r...@settrans.net> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 10:35 -0600, Ian wrote: > > &g

Re: [freenet-dev] Multiple implementations considered harmful was Re: Project Status

2015-11-03 Thread Ian
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Bob Ham <r...@settrans.net> wrote: > On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 11:02 -0600, Ian wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Bob Ham <r...@settrans.net> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 10:55 -0600, Ian wrote: > > &g

[freenet-dev] A bold idea for discussion: "Freenet 2"

2015-11-03 Thread Ian
sue Clearly, this would not be a direct successor to Freenet, it would not be backwards compatible, and would be designed for a different (but perhaps more current) use-case. Thoughts? Ian. ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl

Re: [freenet-dev] Multiple implementations considered harmful was Re: Project Status

2015-11-03 Thread Ian
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Bob Ham <r...@settrans.net> wrote: > On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 10:55 -0600, Ian wrote: > > Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship - Robert C. > Martin > > - ISBN 978-0132350884 > > Why, what do they say in the book that i

Re: [freenet-dev] working together as a community with a covert adversary

2015-11-03 Thread Ian
in this, although generally I try to only respond with negativity in response to negativity. We're not the only project <http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/linus-torvalds-defends-his-right-to-shame-linux-kernel-developers/> with this problem. Ian. On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 3

Re: [freenet-dev] A bold idea for discussion: "Freenet 2"

2015-11-03 Thread Ian
atisfied with the current state of Freenet. Whatever we call it, it's possible that Tahrir might be of interest to them (it wouldn't be depriving Freenet of anything because such people are unlikely to contribute to Freenet). Ian. ___ Devl mailing lis

Re: [freenet-dev] Request for comments: Change list+IRC policy to avoid full rewrite flamewars

2015-11-03 Thread Ian Clarke
-of-the-box ideas, but there is a big difference between considering something and actually doing it. Ian. On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 7:14 PM, xor <x...@freenetproject.org> wrote: > Imagine the following situation: > You're a volunteer who donated months of his spare time, and thus mon

Re: [freenet-dev] Multiple implementations considered harmful was Re: Project Status

2015-11-03 Thread Ian
f documentation nobody will read. I don't claim that we are perfect, far from it, but if you think that dropping everything and producing vast amounts of documentation will solve anything, I'm afraid you're mistaken. Ian. ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenet

Re: [freenet-dev] Multiple implementations considered harmful was Re: Project Status

2015-11-03 Thread Ian
mplement Freenet, if only they had comprehensive documentation? You're dreaming. We barely have the resources to maintain and advance one implementation of Freenet. Ian. ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl

Re: [freenet-dev] Multiple implementations considered harmful was Re: Project Status

2015-11-03 Thread Ian
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Bob Ham <r...@settrans.net> wrote: > On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 08:57 -0600, Ian wrote: > > The GNU Hurd is a cautionary tale, not a model for software > > development. > > If GNU Hurd is a cautionary tale, what is Freenet? > Did I sa

Re: [freenet-dev] Multiple implementations considered harmful was Re: Project Status

2015-11-03 Thread Ian
lving a simpler problem. Sure, it would be great to have those advantages, but we don't. Ian. ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl

Re: [freenet-dev] Multiple implementations considered harmful was Re: Project Status

2015-11-03 Thread Ian
n anonymity systems like Freenet today than back when the project began, so no, I don't think that's why we're having trouble attracting developers. Ian. ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl

Re: [freenet-dev] Multiple implementations considered harmful was Re: Project Status

2015-11-03 Thread Ian
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Bob Ham <r...@settrans.net> wrote: > On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 10:14 -0600, Ian wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Bob Ham <r...@settrans.net> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 08:57 -0600, Ian wrote: > > > > > Y

Re: [freenet-dev] Multiple implementations considered harmful was Re: Project Status

2015-11-03 Thread Ian
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Florent Daigniere < nextg...@freenetproject.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 10:11 -0600, Ian wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Florent Daigniere < > > nextg...@freenetproject.org> wrote: > > > Tor and its ecosys

Re: [freenet-dev] Multiple implementations considered harmful was Re: Project Status

2015-11-03 Thread Ian
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Bob Ham <r...@settrans.net> wrote: > On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 10:35 -0600, Ian wrote: > > > Anyone educated on modern software development practices knows that > > well-written code is self-documenting > > I disagree. Read the book I r

Re: [freenet-dev] Multiple implementations considered harmful was Re: Project Status

2015-11-03 Thread Ian
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Bob Ham <r...@settrans.net> wrote: > On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 10:32 -0600, Ian wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Bob Ham <r...@settrans.net> wrote: > > > > > > > I'm not claiming that Linux won just because they s

Re: [freenet-dev] Freenet debian package

2015-10-31 Thread Ian
obably isn't perfect here. Ian. ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl

Re: [freenet-dev] Metrics

2015-10-25 Thread Ian
On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 10:38 PM, <salutarydiacritica...@ruggedinbox.com> wrote: > For Pete's sake don't run Google analytics on your site. I saw a ticket > for it on bug tracker. Out of interest - why not? Ian. ___ Devl maili

[freenet-dev] A/B testing of website

2015-10-25 Thread Ian Clarke
It appears that Google's "Website Optimizer", which was free, has been discontinued. Does anyone have any experience with A/B testing frameworks that might be suitable for our needs? Ian. -- Ian Clarke Founder, The Freenet Project Email: i..

Re: [freenet-dev] Metrics

2015-10-25 Thread Ian
tics then we shouldn't use it, but pretending that you have any privacy from corporate third parties when visiting any website on the web, including freenetproject.org, is just promoting ignorance. Ian. ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproje

Re: [freenet-dev] A/B testing of website

2015-10-25 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 2:01 PM, <salutarydiacritica...@ruggedinbox.com> wrote: > Self hosted A/B network. > > https://github.com/maccman/abba Looks interesting, have you used it? -- Ian Clarke Founder, The Freenet Project Email: i...@fre

Re: [freenet-dev] Git push access

2015-10-25 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 7:51 AM, Steve Dougherty <st...@asksteved.com> wrote: > > > Ian, Toad and NextGens are the only current admins of the GitHub org, > > but none of them are very active on the project. Should we add > > another more active person as ad

Re: [freenet-dev] Behind the times

2015-10-23 Thread Ian
On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Steve Dougherty <st...@asksteved.com> wrote: > On 10/22/2015 10:58 PM, Ian Clarke wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Steve Dougherty <st...@asksteved.com> > > wrote: > ... > >> I don't understand what you mean

Re: [freenet-dev] Project Status

2015-10-23 Thread Ian
seems like a really awful idea. Ian. ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl

Re: [freenet-dev] Behind the times

2015-10-22 Thread Ian
he central placement of the "Download Freenet" button I think. Could we move the "What is Freenet?" section up, and perhaps move the download link to the top right of the page? Ian. On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 5:41 AM, Steve Dougherty <st...@asksteved.com> wrote: > The si

Re: [freenet-dev] Behind the times

2015-10-22 Thread Ian Clarke
ht now the first thing people are encouraged to look at is the Download button, but to figure out why they might want to consider downloading, they have to scroll down to the "What is Freenet?" section. I think we need a very concise explanation of why they would want to download Fr

Re: [freenet-dev] Project Status

2015-10-16 Thread Ian
blocked by the Chinese government). You're advocating that we replace the very thing that makes Freenet different. If we did that, what would be the point of continuing with the project? Ian. ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl

Re: [freenet-dev] Project Status

2015-10-15 Thread Ian
roblem and would be a massive waste of time and resources. Ian. On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 4:35 PM, <salutarydiacritica...@ruggedinbox.com> wrote: > I am a Freenet user and want you to succeed so look at my words from that > angle. > > You are missing out on an obvious natural alliance

Re: [freenet-dev] Dependency management was Re: Behind the times

2015-10-13 Thread Ian
o migrate the project over to a modern build system, most likely Gradle. Support for downloading dependencies from Freenet (or through Tor) would be nice but should be way down the list of priorities. Ian. ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl

Re: [freenet-dev] Dependency management was Re: Behind the times

2015-10-11 Thread Ian
teve Dougherty <st...@asksteved.com> > wrote: > > > On 10/10/2015 04:14 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > > On 06/10/15 15:10, Ian Clarke wrote: > > >> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 4:39 AM, xor <x...@freenetproject.org> wrote: > > ... > > > Deployin

Re: [freenet-dev] Simplified contribution guideline, was: "Re: Behind the times"

2015-10-06 Thread Ian Clarke
I agree with the motives of this, but isn't requiring that new developers personally interact via IRC just to get started an admission of defeat? That shouldn't be necessary, and there is no reason for it to be necessary. It's not necessary in other open source projects. Ian. On Tue, Oct 6

Re: [freenet-dev] Behind the times

2015-10-06 Thread Ian
ease scripts (that should also be gradle-ified). > All the more reason to do what we can to make it easier for new contributors to contribute. Ian. ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl

Re: [freenet-dev] Behind the times

2015-10-06 Thread Ian Clarke
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 4:39 AM, xor <x...@freenetproject.org> wrote: > [Sorted/trimmed/amended the quotes for readability] > > On Monday, October 05, 2015 12:52:08 PM Ian Clarke wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 12:57 AM, xor <x...@freenetproject.org> wrote

Re: [freenet-dev] Behind the times

2015-10-04 Thread Ian
What's the username/pwd for https://testing.freenetproject.org/ ? On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 10:40 PM, Steve Dougherty <st...@asksteved.com> wrote: > On 09/29/2015 07:26 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 29. September 2015, 14:50:27 schrieb Ian Clarke: > >>

Re: [freenet-dev] Behind the times

2015-09-30 Thread Ian
n Java development tools. Ian. ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl

Re: [freenet-dev] Behind the times

2015-09-30 Thread Ian
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Matthew Toseland <t...@amphibian.dyndns.org > wrote: > On 30/09/15 14:31, Ian wrote: > >> Checking a signature or at least a checksum is basic due diligence for > >> security-related software. It's not supported reliably by Maven, &

Re: [freenet-dev] Behind the times

2015-09-30 Thread Ian
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@web.de> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 30. September 2015, 08:42:38 schrieb Ian: > > I'm not opposed to using signing if we can do it without keeping the > > project stuck in 2001's development tools - because

[freenet-dev] Behind the times

2015-09-29 Thread Ian Clarke
ll of these things will require work. Fortunately, most can be tackled independently of each-other and so we can bite off one piece at a time, if there are any volunteers to take ownership of them. Ian. -- Ian Clarke Founder, The Freenet Project Email: i...@

Re: [freenet-dev] We've been invited to an European Parliament conference

2015-09-15 Thread Ian
Done On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 7:13 AM, Florent Daigniere < nextg...@freenetproject.org> wrote: > I'll make it work too. > > Ian, do you mind replying to them Ccing both me and Arne back? > > Regards, > Florent > > > On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 11:36 +0200, Arne

Re: [freenet-dev] Multiple SourceForge issues

2015-09-13 Thread Ian
strong cue to at least release 0.7.6 > > the next few months, and then increment the version number *at least* > > whenever there are changes which can cause older versions to no longer > > connect. > I did that once. Ian got really angry. Matthew, please do me a favor and stop char

Re: [freenet-dev] We've been invited to an European Parliament conference

2015-09-10 Thread Ian Clarke
2:21:19 AM Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > > > Thank you! > > > > > > I think the first one to talk to them is Ian, because he’s the one who > > > got invited. I should find out tomorrow evening whether I can free the > > > days. > > > > Ian already

Re: [freenet-dev] We've been invited to an European Parliament conference

2015-09-08 Thread Ian
I agree with Arne and disagree with Markus. The worst possible way to deal with politicians is to not talk to them. It might be unpopular to say, but in my experience most politicians are smart, and genuinely want to do the right thing, but they're frequently misinformed because they're only

Re: [freenet-dev] We've been invited to an European Parliament conference

2015-09-08 Thread Ian
That sounds interesting, unfortunately I won't be able to do it (it would be a transatlantic trip), but hopefully someone can and we can track down whoever sent that message. On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 8:27 AM xor <x...@freenetproject.org> wrote: > [15:18] Dear Ian Clarke, The Civil

Re: [freenet-dev] Great series of Freenet articles

2015-07-31 Thread Ian Clarke
Yes, I didn't realize it was yours until after I sent the last email. Really great! On Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 15:41 Arne Babenhauserheide arne_...@web.de wrote: Am Freitag, 31. Juli 2015, 07:34:31 schrieb Ian Clarke: I'm surprised I didn't see these earlier: http://draketo.de/english/freenet

[freenet-dev] Thoughts on FProxy

2015-07-31 Thread Ian Clarke
-paradise in particular, it hits home the potential Freenet could have with a modern UI, and the tools now exist for us to build a solid UI even if UI design isn't the core competency of the typical Freenet volunteer. Thoughts? Ian. ___ Devl mailing list

[freenet-dev] Great series of Freenet articles

2015-07-31 Thread Ian Clarke
I'm surprised I didn't see these earlier: http://draketo.de/english/freenet This one is quite recent: http://draketo.de/light/english/freenet/communication-primitives-1-files-and-sites Ian. ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https

Re: [freenet-dev] Github and code review

2015-03-31 Thread Ian
to be streamlined and painless because I've used it myself (as have many others). It is very clear that the current process is neither streamlined nor is it painless, so change is clearly necessary. Ian. ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https

Re: [freenet-dev] Github and code review

2015-03-29 Thread Ian
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide arne_...@web.de wrote: Am Samstag, 28. März 2015, 11:32:30 schrieb Ian: I agree with Bombe that it’s not nice to lose the history, but with git that’s the best we can do. It’s a limitation of the tool. It's not a limitation

Re: [freenet-dev] Github and code review

2015-03-28 Thread Ian
seem to be so concerned about. If the pull request is too big to be reviewed, then it should have been broken into small pull requests. Typically a pull request should represent *at most* 4 days worth of work. Ian. ___ Devl mailing list Devl

Re: [freenet-dev] Github and code review

2015-03-23 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Ian Clarke i...@freenetproject.org wrote: That is precisely how every mature project works. Just because neither your business ventures nor your involvement in open source are mature doesn't mean there aren't projects out there - both open source (Linux, Wine

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