[tahoe-dev] TWN 38

Tue Sep 11 00:35:09 UTC 2012

I'm definitely down to meet at Noisebridge for Tahoe's birthday, and also
do Tahoe-LAFS evangelism at Cryptoparties thrown at Noisebridge ;)

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Patrick R McDonald
<marlowe at antagonism.org>wrote:

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> Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, issue number 38, September 10 2012
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> Announcement and News
> =====================
>
> Tahoe-LAFS Turning Six
> - ----------------------
> On Oct 22, 2012, Tahoe-LAFS will turn six (6) years old.  Zooko |zooko|
> is looking to host a celebratory party in Boulder, CO and there is talk
> of a party at `Noisebridge`_ for those in the San Francisco area.  I
> will be doing something in the Kansas City, MO area for those who are
> interested.  How do you think we should celebrate?
>
> .. _`Noisebridge`: https://www.noisebridge.net/
>
> Cryptoparty
> - -----------
>
> `Cryptoparty`_ has sprung up as a grass roots movement to bring
> cryptography to the people.  Topics covered range from Tor to GPG to
> OTR.  However, one topic which I haven't noticed at any of the parties
> was mention of Tahoe-LAFS.  This prevents a great opportunity for us to
> introduce Tahoe-LAFS to the uninitiated.  I am willing to help cover
> Tahoe at the Kansas City cryptoparty.  Anyone else with me?
>
> .. _`Cryptoparty`: http://www.cryptoparty.org/wiki/CryptoParty
>
> Glowing Quotes
> ==============
>
> “Tahoe-LAFS is an amazing piece of work!” — Pål Ruud
>
> Tahoe-LAFS on Twitter
> =====================
>
> Tahoe-LAFS mentioned in the keynote at the world's foremost crypto
> conference! “The End of Crypto”—Jonathan Zittrain https://bit.ly/ShkJ14
> [`0`_]
>
> #privacy #crypto MT @zooko Tahoe-LAFS appears as one point of light in
> an otherwise grim big picture. http://bit.ly/ShkJ14 [`1`_]
>
> @msimoni Tahoe-lafs goes at storage and its management indirectly;
> securing data is where it excels. [`2`_]
>
> Tahoe-LAFS = great example of FOSS community building :) RT @zooko:
> Notes from the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly Conference Call:
> https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2012-September/007689.html
> [`3`_]
>
> Man this is awesome stuff Tahoe – The Least-Authority Filesystem
> https://tahoe-lafs.org/~zooko/lafs.pdf hacks are impressive as well
> https://tahoe-lafs.org/hacktahoelafs/ [`4`_]
>
> Tahoe-LAFS decentralized privacy/security-enhanced data storage for I2P
> http://killyourtv.i2p.to/tahoe-lafs/install/ [`5`_]
>
> .. _`0`: https://twitter.com/zooko/status/243068166035623939
> .. _`1`: https://twitter.com/jmcest/status/243069592585502720
> .. _`2`: https://twitter.com/dehora/status/243363378356162561
> .. _`3`: https://twitter.com/hypatiadotca/status/243785768735232000
> .. _`4`: https://twitter.com/wolfeidau/status/244616198283739136
> .. _`5`: https://twitter.com/mrkoot/status/244732321167724544
>
> Patches Needing Review of the Week
> ==================================
>
> There are four (4) ticket still needing review for 1.10.0:
>
> * `#1539`_: stop putting pkg_resources.require() into .tac files
> * `#166`_: command line order is problematic
> * `#937`_: 'tahoe run' doesn't work for an introducer node
> * `#1159`_: stop using .tac files: make it possible to change appname,
>   Python package-directory name, perhaps other names
>
> There are two (2) tickets still needing review of 1.11.0:
>
> * `#1265`_: New Visualizer is insufficiently labelled/documented (plus
>   layout problem)
> * `#1382`_: immutable peer selection refactoring and enhancements
>
> .. _`#1735`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1735
> .. _`#1777`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1777
> .. _`#166`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/166
> .. _`#937`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/937
> .. _`#1539`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1539
> .. _`#1159`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1159
> .. _`#1693`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1693
> .. _`#1265`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1265
> .. _`#1382`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1382
>
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Tony Arcieri
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