GSoC 2015 to overcome NAT limitations?

[Lukas Pirl]

Hello Tahoe-People!

What if I'd be interested in contributing to Tahoe-LAFS in the context
of this year's Google Summer of Code¹?

What is interesting for me is the firewall/NAT/hole punching topic. From
what I recognize, running Tahoe behind some NAT is relatively popular
(e.g. at home). From my own experiences, I can say that the peer-to-peer
idea is somewhat destroyed if one runs most of the nodes behind a NAT.

Well, there are five days left for you as an organization to apply for
this year's Summer of Code. Tahoe can definitely profit!

Further, I have a (early) question about the mentoring. Do you want the
mentor to be a Tahoe core developer (what definitely would make perfect
sense) or am I supposed/can I ask one of my folks in preference? And if
so, is it sufficient for mentors to be wizards in Python and to have
joined the GSoC already or should they have made contributions to Tahoe
already?

I'd be happy to hear from you!

Kind regards,

Lukas

¹ https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015