Tahoe-LAFS Summit

The second Tahoe-LAFS Summit is less than two weeks away. Mozilla will host the second Tahoe-LAFS Summit. Mozilla will host the Summit from its new San Francisco office (2 Harrison Street). Thanks for the hospitality.

In addition, we have a request to make remote participation possible. At the last Summit, Nathan Wilcox and Drew Perttula made a live audio-video stream possible. We are not sure if they will be able to make this one, so we would appreciate volunteers to assist with the feed.

New tahoe-lafs.org

In response, to the outages mentioned in TWN 14, our crack team of secret ninjas are working hard to bring you a new and improved tahoe-lafs.org. The new site will have a more reliable network connection and a snappier Trac instance.

Logo Feedback

As noted in TWN 15, Zooko posted an email requesting feedback on the Tahoe-LAFS logo. So far, the feedback on the mailing list as been fantastic. Please post any feedback, you have to ticket 1185 as well. Also if you are interested in updating the web site to the new logo and printing the tshirts, please let Zooko know.

JonDonym Announce Tahoe-LAFS Grid

JonDonym announced its own Tahoe-LAFS grid for its premium customers. From its blog,

"JonDonym is offering its premium costumers a highly anonymous file sharing service. The JonDonym Storage uses the software Tahoe-LAFS. Several verified mix operators and the JonDos GmbH provide the nodes of the storage grid. Uploads are distributed over randomly chosen nodes and stored encrypted so that no node operator can reconstruct the content of the files. The anonymity of uploaders and downloaders is guaranteed by JonDonym's premium services.

Beta-testers have explicitly confirmed the system's suitaility for whistleblowing purposes. Whistleblowers may provide files anonymously and can send the download links via anonymous e-mails or can post them in forums or blogs afterwards. Help for using e-mail anonymously can be found in our online help or in the wiki.

The service is not designed as a backup service. The uploads are not saved permanently. Rather, they are deleted automatically after 4 weeks. We reserve the right to extend the storage period depending on the capacity used." [1]