= Welcome to Allmydata "Tahoe" =
The Allmydata "Tahoe" project is a secure, distributed, fault-tolerant 
storage grid, available under a free-software license.

You can store files in the grid and retrieve them with a
cryptographically generated URI that securely identifies and decrypts that
file.  You can also organize files with filenames and directories, in the
familiar style.  The basic idea is that the data in this storage grid is
spread over all participating nodes, using an algorithm that can recover 
the data even if a majority of the nodes are no longer available.

The code is currently functional.  It is targeted at hackers who are
willing to use a minimal, text-oriented web user interface.

== Get Started ==
[source:README The README file] tells how to acquire and build the source code, how to run a node than can upload and download files, how to connect to the public test grid operated by [http://allmydata.com Allmydata, Inc.], and how to set up your own private grid.

DownloadDebianPackages tells how to get prebuilt packages for a Debian-like system (including Ubuntu).

== Get Involved ==
[/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev The tahoe-dev mailing list] is the community forum for discussion of Tahoe design, implementation, and usage.

[wiki:Dev The Dev page] is the place to start hacking on Tahoe.

== Latest News -- 2007-06-29: Allmydata Tahoe v0.4 is released! ==
This version adds encrypted, mutable directories, so that you can organize your files into directories, change the contents of directories, and share your directories with your friends, without thereby sharing your directories with anyone else -- not even with the owners of the servers that host your directories.

Please see [source:relnotes.txt@849 the Release Notes].

=== Other News and Status Information ===
Please see [wiki:News the News page] for news, blogs, and network utilization graphs, and

[wiki:Dev the Dev page] for buildbot, code coverage, patch browser and other useful development tools.

== Documentation ==
See [wiki:Doc the Doc page] for explanation of how Tahoe works.

== License ==
Tahoe is offered under the GNU General Public License (v2 or later), with the
added permission that, if you become obligated to release a derived work
under this licence (as per section 2.b), you may delay the fulfillment of
this obligation for up to 12 months.  Code that you release must be released 
under this same licence including this added permission.

== Test Grid ==
An experimental public grid is running on Allmydata servers.

See TestGrid to view usage statistics (with pretty graphs!) and instructions for how to connect to the test grid.

== Navigating This Web Site ==
 
See TracStartingPoints for how to use this bug tracker/source code browser/wiki.

TitleIndex is a complete list of pages on this wiki.