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	<h1 style="color: #2f8ab5; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif">Welcome to Tahoe-LAFS</h1>
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			<p>Tahoe-LAFS is a Free Software/Open Source decentralized data store. It distributes your filesystem across multiple servers, and even if some of the servers fail or are taken over by an attacker, the entire filesystem continues to work correctly and to preserve your privacy and security.</p>
<p><a href="http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk/docs/about.html"><img width="512px" height="343px" alt="Tahoe-LAFS network topology schema, live from TestGrid !" src="http://secorp.net/images/network-and-reliance-topology.png" style="max-width: 90%; height: auto;"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://tahoe-lafs.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://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk tahoe-lafs</i></li>
    <li><a href="http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk/docs/quickstart.html">Download</a> and run it on your own system.</li>
    <li><a href="http://testgrid.tahoe-lafs.org:3567/uri/URI%3ADIR2%3Adjrdkfawoqihigoett4g6auz6a%3Ajx5mplfpwexnoqff7y5e4zjus4lidm76dcuarpct7cckorh2dpgq">Try Tahoe-LAFS now!</a> live on the web. (For more information see <a href="http://tahoe-lafs.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://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev">The tahoe-dev mailing list</a> is the community forum.</li>
    <li><a href="http://tahoe-lafs.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://tahoe-lafs.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://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/Doc">The Doc page</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/FAQ">Frequently Asked Questions</a></li>
    <li>See <a href="http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/TracStartingPoints">TracStartingPoints</a> for how to use this bug-tracker/source-code-browser/wiki.</li>
    <li><a href="http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/TitleIndex">TitleIndex</a> is a complete list of pages on this wiki.</li>
    <li><a href="http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-w32-client/wiki">Our Windows Client</a> - source and builds for Windows.</li>
    <li><a href="http://tahoe-lafs.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>2010-05-23</b> -- Zooko will present Tahoe-LAFS at <a href="http://2010.confidence.org.pl/lang-pref/en/">CONfidence 2010</a> in Krakow, Poland</p>
                <p><b>2010-04-26</b> -- <a href="http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-April/004305.html">Google Summer of Code chooses to sponsor Tahoe-LAFS!</a></p>
                <p><b>2010-02-27</b> -- <a href="http://tahoe-lafs.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://tahoe-lafs.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.tahoe-lafs.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.tahoe-lafs.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://tahoe-lafs.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://tahoe-lafs.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.tahoe-lafs.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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