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 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?

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?

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]

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

The Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News is published once a week by The Tahoe-LAFS Software Foundation, President and Treasurer: Peter Secor . Scribes: Patrick "marlowe" McDonald , Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn , Editor Emeritus: Zooko. View TWN on the web or subscribe to TWN . Send your news stories to marlowe@antagonism.org — submission deadline: Friday night.