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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 Free Software/Open Source decentralized data store. The filesystem is encrypted and spread over multiple servers in such a way that it remains available even when some of the servers are unavailable, malfunctioning, or malicious.</p>
<p><a href="http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk/docs/about.html"><img width="512px" height="343px" alt="Tahoe-LAFS network topology schema, live from TestGrid !" 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-lafs/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>Darcs checkout: <i>darcs get --lazy http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk tahoe-lafs</i></li>
    <li><a href="http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk/docs/install.html">Download</a> and install it on your own system.</li>
    <li><a href="http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI%3ADIR2%3Adjrdkfawoqihigoett4g6auz6a%3Ajx5mplfpwexnoqff7y5e4zjus4lidm76dcuarpct7cckorh2dpgq">Try Tahoe-LAFS now!</a> without installing it. (For more information see <a href="http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/TestGrid">the TestGrid Page</a> on the wiki.)</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><a href="http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/Doc">the Doc page</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/FAQ">Frequently Asked Questions</a></li>
    <li>See <a href="http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/TracStartingPoints">TracStartingPoints</a> for how to use this bug-tracker/source-code-browser/wiki.</li>
    <li><a href="http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/TitleIndex">TitleIndex</a> is a complete list of pages on this wiki.</li>
    <li><a href="http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-w32-client/wiki">Our Windows Client</a> - source and builds for Windows.</li>
    <li><a href="http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-iphone-client/wiki">Our iPhone Client</a> - source and builds for iPhone.</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">News and interesting links</h1>
                <p><b>2010-03-18</b> -- <a href="http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-March/004184.html">Google Summer of Code chooses to sponsor Tahoe-LAFS!</a></p>
                <p><b>2010-02-27</b> -- <a href="http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-February/004026.html">v1.6.1 of Tahoe-LAFS</a> is Released! This is a bugfix release which fixes a few small regressions in v1.6.0.</p>
                <p><b>2010-02-10</b> -- <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/b0by5/tahoelafs_a_p2p_filesystem_that_lets_you_use_the/">Reddit discussion of Tahoe-LAFS</a></p>
                <p><b>2010-02-10</b> -- <a href="http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/p2p/83744/">Russian tech and IT economics blog coverage of Tahoe-LAFS 1.6</a>
                <p><b>2010-02-09</b> -- <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-February/005164.html">Ubuntu Lucid Lynx accepts v1.6 of Tahoe-LAFS</a></p>
                <p><b>2010-02-07</b> -- <a href="http://www.ossblog.it/post/5744/tahoe-lafs">Zooko destroys laptops in Italian</a></p>
                <p><b>2010-02-05</b> -- <a href="http://m.boingboing.net/2010/02/05/tahoe-lafs-a-p2p-fil.html">Tahoe-LAFS in Boing Boing</a></p>
                <p><b>2010-02-01</b> -- <a href="http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-February/003759.html">v1.6 of Tahoe-LAFS</a> is Released! It features greatly improved performance, usability, and forward-compatibility, and deep-immutable directories.</p>
		<p><b>2010-01-20</b> -- The <i>Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative</i>, a U.S.A. national cyber-defense initiative, has published a report brainstorming new ways to defend national security. The report <a href="http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI:DIR2-RO:j74uhg25nwdpjpacl6rkat2yhm:kav7ijeft5h7r7rxdp5bgtlt3viv32yabqajkrdykozia5544jqa/wiki.html#[[national cyber defense report recommends Tahoe-LAFS]]">praises Tahoe-LAFS</a>!</p>
		<p><b>2009-10-30</b> -- Tahoe-LAFS will be presented at the RSA Conference 2010 in San Francisco: <a href="http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI:DIR2-RO:j74uhg25nwdpjpacl6rkat2yhm:kav7ijeft5h7r7rxdp5bgtlt3viv32yabqajkrdykozia5544jqa/wiki.html#2009-10-30">Your cloud storage provider does not need access to your data.</a></p>
		<p><b>2009-10-02</b> -- Tahoe-LAFS was <a href="http://www.cloudera.com/sites/all/themes/cloudera/static/hw09/3%20%20-%202-30%20Aaron%20Cordova,%20BAH,%20HadoopWorldComplete.pdf
">presented at HadoopWorld in New York City</a></p>
		<p><b>2009-08-15</b> -- Allmydata has open-sourced its <a href="http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-w32-client/wiki">Windows client</a>.</p>
		<p><b>2009-08-04</b> -- Tahoe-LAFS is <a href="http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/08/p2p-like-tahoe-filesystem-offers-secure-storage-in-the-cloud.ars">reviewed by Ars Technica</a>.</p>
		<p><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-lafs/browser/relnotes.txt?rev=263713ee659cbd32">Release Notes.</a>
		<p><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.</p>
		<p><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</p>
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