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	<h1 style="color: #2f8ab5; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif">Welcome to Tahoe-LAFS</h1>
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				Tahoe-LAFS is a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant filesystem. All of the source code is available under a choice of two Free Software, Open Source licences. 
				This filesystem is encrypted and spread over multiple peers in such a way that it remains available even when some of the peers are unavailable, malfunctioning, or malicious.</p>
<p><a href="http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/about.html"><img src="http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/file/URI%3ACHK%3A6opfg3uvhrvixw7c5u7kye3bjq%3Aeiqvmup7yog2rlwa2acoom2jrmgciuwr5bw5vkemxuqyg2jfbsqq%3A3%3A10%3A50638/@@named=/network-and-reliance-topology-thumb512.png" style="max-width: 90%; height: auto;"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/about.html">The one-page summary</a> explains the unique properties of this system.</p>
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 <h1 style="color: #2f8ab5; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 10px">Get Started</h1>
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    <li><a href="http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI%3ADIR2%3Adjrdkfawoqihigoett4g6auz6a%3Ajx5mplfpwexnoqff7y5e4zjus4lidm76dcuarpct7cckorh2dpgq">Try Tahoe-LAFS now!</a> (For more information see <a href="http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/TestGrid">the TestGrid Page</a> on the wiki.)</li>
    <li><a href="http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/install.html">Download</a> and install it on your own system.</li>
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 <h1 style="color: #2f8ab5; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif">Get Involved</h1>
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    <li><a href="http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev">The tahoe-dev mailing list</a> is the community forum.</li>
    <li><a href="http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-announce">The tahoe-announce mailing list</a> is a low-volume mailing list for announcements.</li>
    <li><a href="http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/Dev">The Dev page</a> is the place to start hacking on Tahoe-LAFS.</li>
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 <h1 style="color: #2f8ab5; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 10px">Documentation</h1>
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    <li>See <a href="http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/Doc">the Doc page</a> for explanation of how Tahoe-LAFS works.</li>
    <li>See <a href="http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/TracStartingPoints">TracStartingPoints</a> for how to use this bug-tracker/source-code-browser/wiki.</li>
    <li><a href="http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/TitleIndex">TitleIndex</a> is a complete list of pages on this wiki.</li>
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  <h1 style="color: #2f8ab5; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 10px">Sponsorship</h1>
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			<a href="http://www.allmydata.com/index.php?tracking=allmydata_org">allmydata.com</a> sponsors the Tahoe-LAFS project by providing hardware and data-center facilities along with the initial developer time. We are eternally grateful for their generous and public-spirited support. Please contact secorp@allmydata.org if you would like to sponsor Tahoe-LAFS too!
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	<h1 style="color: #2f8ab5; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif">Buzz</h1>
<p>what others are saying</p>
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                  <tr><td><b>2008-10-16</b></td><td><a href="http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=1541">Hype vs. FUD</a></td></tr>
                  <tr><td></td><td><i>Security of computing and data in the cloud</i></td></tr>
                  <tr><td><b>2008-10-29</b></td><td><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=162">Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009</a></td></tr>
                  <tr><td><b>2008-09-10</b></td><td><a href="http://www.economist.com/science/tm/displayStory.cfm?source=hptextfeature&story_id=12081445">Thanks for the memory</a></td></tr>
                  <tr><td><b>2008-09-04</b></td><td><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/09/04/boxnet-powers-online-storage-for-dell-netbook/">Box.net powers online storage for Dell ‘netbook’</a></td></tr>
                  <tr><td><b>2008-08-31</b></td><td><a href="http://gigaom.com/2008/08/31/carbonite-ceo-online-backups-sell/">
Carbonite CEO: Online Backups Sell</a></td></tr>
                  <tr><td><b>2008-05-02</b></td><td><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/blogs/larkin_on_the_web/145356/mozy_delivers_solid_online_backup.html">Mozy Delivers Solid Online Backup</a></td></tr>
                  <tr><td></td><td><i>comparison to Mozy</i></td></tr>
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	<h1 style="color: #2f8ab5; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 10px">Donate!</h1>
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			&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;You can sponsor the Tahoe-LAFS project!
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	<h1 style="color: #2f8ab5; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif">Latest News</h1> 

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 			<b>2009-08-01</b> -- v1.5 released! This is a major release adding UI, performance, portability and forward-compatibility improvements and fixing a couple of small bugs.  Please see the <a href="http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/relnotes.txt?rev=263713ee659cbd32">Release Notes.</a>
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 			<b>2009-05-27</b> -- The <a href="http://blog.okfn.org/2009/05/13/launch-of-open-data-grid/">Open Knowledge Foundation</a> is now running a Tahoe-LAFS grid!
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 			<b>2009-05-07</b> -- The <em><strong>"Hack Tahoe!"</strong></em> Contest <a href="http://hacktahoe.org">Hall of Fame</a> has been updated to show a picture of Christian Grothoff's smiling face as he receives his personalized <em><strong>"I Hacked Tahoe"</strong></em> t-shirt.
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 			<b>2009-04-18</b> -- NEWSFLASH!  Tahoe-LAFS Developer Goes Crazy -- <a href="http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI:DIR2-RO:j74uhg25nwdpjpacl6rkat2yhm:kav7ijeft5h7r7rxdp5bgtlt3viv32yabqajkrdykozia5544jqa/wiki.html#%5B%5BLaptop%20Versus%20Axe%5D%5D">Laptop Versus Axe!</a> -- Chaos On Stage At CodeCon -- Film at 11
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 			<b>2009-04-13</b> -- v1.4 released! This is a major release adding garbage collection, improved diagnostics, and fixing a major performance problem with downloading multi-GB files. Please see the <a href="http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/relnotes.txt?rev=8c687c78dac5b56a">Release Notes.</a>
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 			<b>2009-04-09</b> -- Several students have signed up to hack on Tahoe this summer as part of <a href="http://code.google.com/soc">Google Summer of Code</a>!  Join the discussion on <a href="http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-April/001516.html">the mailing list</a> or <a href="http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/GSoCIdeas">edit the GSoCIdeas page</a>.</a>
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 			<b>2009-02-13</b> -- v1.3 released! This is a major release adding repairer, backup command, large file support, (S)FTP server, and more. Please see the <a href="http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/relnotes.txt?rev=967d1b414d860b65">Release Notes.</a>
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 			<b>2008-09-23</b> -- <a href="http://www.cs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/papers/FAST-2009.html">A Performance Evaluation and Examination of Open-Source Erasure Coding Libraries For Storage</a> will be presented at <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/fast09">FAST-2009: 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies</a>
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 			<b>2008-08-24</b> -- Here is an <a href="http://bigasterisk.com/tahoe-playground/">interactive illustration</a> showing how Tahoe works, thanks to Drew Perttula.
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