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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://pubgrid.tahoe-lafs.org/uri/URI%3ADIR2%3Actmtx2awdo4xt77x5xxaz6nyxm%3An5t546ddvd6xlv4v6se6sjympbdbvo7orwizuzl42urm73sxazqa/">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-lafs/wiki/Dev">The Dev page</a> is the place to start hacking on Tahoe-LAFS.</li>
    <li><a href="http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AboutUs">About Us</a></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>
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  <h1 style="color: #2f8ab5; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 10px">Sponsorship</h1>
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			allmydata.com sponsored 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. Google, Inc. is sponsoring Tahoe-LAFS through its Google Summer of Code program. 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; margin-top: 10px">Donate!</h1>
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	<h1 style="color: #2f8ab5; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif">News and interesting links</h1>
		<p><b>2010-08-10</b> -- <a href="http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-August/004950.html">v1.8.0c2</a> Released! This release candidate introduces a completely new downloader to raise the performance and robustness of downloads. It also improves consistency of command-line options, internationalization on Windows, code organization, tests, logging, and packaging.
		<p><b>2010-07-19</b> -- <a href="http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-July/004705.html">v1.7.1</a> Released! This stable minor release adds several bugfixes
and improvements in security, forward-compatibility, packaging, usability, and portability.
		<p><b>2010-06-18</b> -- <a href="http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-June/004484.html">v1.7.0</a> Released! This release adds a fully functional SFTP interface, support for non-ASCII character encodings, and a new upload algorithm which guarantees that each file is spread over multiple servers for fault-tolerance.
                <p><b>2010-05-25</b> -- Zooko presented Tahoe-LAFS at <a href="http://2010.confidence.org.pl/lang-pref/en/">CONfidence 2010</a> in Kraków, 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>2010-03-05</b> -- Brian and Zooko presented Tahoe-LAFS at RSA in San Francisco: <a href="http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/attachment/wiki/News/tahoe-RSA-slides.pdf">slides</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>
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See also [wiki:News the News page]