===================================================== Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, issue number 5, July 4, 2011 ===================================================== Welcome to the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News (TWN). Tahoe-LAFS_ is a secure, distributed storage system. `View TWN on the web`_ *or* `subscribe to TWN`_. .. _Tahoe-LAFS: http://tahoe-lafs.org .. _View TWN on the web: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/TahoeLAFSWeeklyNews .. _subscribe to TWN: http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-lafs-weekly-news Announcements and News ====================== Tahoe-LAFS Summit ----------------- This week saw the first `Tahoe-LAFS Summit`_. Thanks again to the folks at NoiseBridge_ for hosting the Summit. For those who were unable to attend, you can catch up with the ustream feeds provided by nejucomo_ and secorp_. More updates regarding the Summit coming later this week. .. _`Tahoe-LAFS Summit`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/Summit .. _NoiseBridge: https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge .. _nejucomo: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tahoe-lafs-summit .. _secorp: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tahoe-lafs-summit-end Least Authority Enterprises --------------------------- At the Summit, Zooko announced `Least Authority Enterprises`_ (LAE). LAE is implementing Tahoe-LAFS on Amazon's S3. The product is currently in alpha release. Send an email to `info@leastauthority.com`_ to participate in the alpha testing if you are interested. .. _`Least Authority Enterprises`: http://leastauthority.com/ .. _`info@leastauthority.com`: mailto:info@leastauthority.com Open Source Project of the Week =============================== The Open Source project of the week is Tiddly on Tahoe. tiddly_on_tahoe_ combines the functionality of TiddlyWiki_ with Tahoe. Doing so allows you to run an unhosted web application. Prime example of an unhosted web application using tiddly_on_tahoe is `Zooko's blog`_ and the `Unhosted Wiki`_. .. _tiddly_on_tahoe: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tiddly_on_tahoe .. _TiddlyWiki: http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ .. _`Zooko's blog`: http://insecure.tahoe-lafs.org/uri/URI:DIR2-RO:ixqhc4kdbjxc7o65xjnveoewym:5x... .. _`Unhosted Wiki`: http://insecure.tahoe-lafs.org/uri/URI:DIR2:fx7qhfvfrrm7um327ntkjwfu3m:tynsx...

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Nathan Eisenberg, part of `Atlas Networks`_ solicited feedback_ for designing a Tahoe-LAFS grid. Mahmoud Ismail announced_ Nilestore_. Nilestore is a distributed storage system which follows the same design of Tahoe-LAFS. .. _`Atlas Networks`: http://www.atlasnetworks.us .. _feedback: http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-June/006499.html .. _announced: http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-June/006502.html .. _Nilestore: http://code.google.com/p/nilestore/ Patch Needing Review of the Week ================================ The Patch Needing Review of the Week is 1409_. This patch removes the contrib/fuse directory. This will remove the tools within this directory as they are unsupported. So, if anyone is interested in maintaining and updating these tools, please adopt them and move them into a new source tree and let us know. .. _1409: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1409 Tips and Tricks of the Week ===========================

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Kevin Reid provides instructions_ for automatically repairing Tahoe-LAFS files. .. _instructions: http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-October/003012.html ---- *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: Zooko.* `View TWN on the web`_ *or* `subscribe to TWN`_ *. Send your news stories to* marlowe@antagonism.org_ *b submission deadline: Friday night.* .. _marlowe@antagonism.org: mailto:marlowe@antagonism.org -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- | Patrick R. McDonald GPG Key: 668AA5DF | | https://www.antagonism.org/ <marlowe@antagonism.org> | | <mcdonald.patrick.r@gmail.com> | | <patrick@opensecurityfoundation.org> | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium | ---------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ tahoe-lafs-weekly-news mailing list tahoe-lafs-weekly-news@tahoe-lafs.org http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-lafs-weekly-news ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE