Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of GSoCIdeas/CloudApps


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2010-03-16T17:24:30Z (15 years ago)
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zooko
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copy in the Cloud Apps idea

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  • GSoCIdeas/CloudApps

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     1= Cloud Apps =
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     3Difficulty: easy to hard, depending on project choice and how far you want to push it
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     5There are a lot of applications that could potentially make good use of Tahoe-LAFS replacing the typical centralized storage of flat files or SQL databases. Currently supported projects include [http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ TiddlyWiki] (one of the Tahoe-LAFS developers hosts his blog using [http://allmydata.org/trac/tiddly_on_tahoe TiddlyWiki stored in Tahoe-LAFS]), [http://hadoop.apache.org/ Hadoop], and [RelatedProjects a number of others].
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     7There are still many useful and interesting things that have yet to be built using Tahoe-LAFS. Perhaps the most promising is in the area of web applications; what applications can you think of that could make use of a highly reliable filesystem accessible from both desktops and [http://github.com/ctrlaltdel/TahoeLAFS-android handheld devices]? Keep in mind that Tahoe-LAFS's architecture allows sharing and delegation opportunities that are difficult or impossible to implement using other backends. Some ideas people have suggested include a calender or photo album, or porting Mozilla's [https://bespin.mozilla.com Bespin] editor).
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     9Nathan Wilcox wrote most of interactive tree browser frontend in !JavaScript (see [wiki:RelatedProjects the RelatedProjects page]); Toby Murray wrote [http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-March/004137.html a front-end in Cajita]; what interesting ways might this be extended?
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     11This is in some ways the most interesting area for development as it combines security and distributed systems problems with providing a user interface that lets a person who isn't particularly security minded operate safely by default. This is a hard problem, but offers great rewards in terms of learning, and even the ability to break new ground in safe-by-default interface design.
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     13Required skills: HTML and !JavaScript for web applications. For other tie-ins, will depend on the base project (for instance porting the git DVCS to run on Tahoe would good C-fu, with git experience helpful).