From a7338f0b148b992ec13e2fab855029eba7cfd0e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zooko <>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:41:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add WebDAV
[Imported from Trac: page GSoCIdeas2010, version 83]
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GSoCIdeas2010.md | 12 +++++++++---
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/GSoCIdeas2010.md b/GSoCIdeas2010.md
index 7b9cf6c..6343809 100644
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@@ -13,9 +13,10 @@ Deadlines and directions for students' applications to the Google Summer-of-Code
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|---|---|---|
|*Project*|*Difficulty*|*Contact*|
-|[#RedundantArrayofIndependentClouds Redundant Array of Independent Clouds]|Medium|[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]mailto:zooko@zooko.com|
+|[#RedundantArrayofIndependentClouds Redundant Array of Independent Clouds]|Medium|[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]mailto:zooko@zooko.com or any mentor|
|[#ShareMigration Share Migration]|Medium|any mentor|
-|[#CloudApps Cloud Apps]|Easy–Hard|[Jack Lloyd](http://www.randombit.net)|
+|[#CloudApps Cloud Apps]|Easy–Hard|[Jack Lloyd](http://www.randombit.net) or any mentor|
+|[#WebDAV WebDAV]|Medium|[David-Sarah Hopwood]mailto:david-sarah@jacaranda.org or any mentor|
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@@ -75,13 +76,18 @@ This is in some ways the most interesting area for development as it combines se
Required skills: HTML and JavaScript for web applications. For other tie-ins, will depend on the base project (for instance porting the git DVCS to run on Tahoe would good C-fu, with git experience helpful).
+# WebDAV
+
+Implement a WebDAV front-end for Tahoe-LAFS so that files and directories stored in a distributed grid can be accessed by operating systems (including Windows, Mac, and Linux) and applications that speak the WebDAV protocol. For details see #451 which describes what the Tahoe-LAFS web server does now, how this differs from what a WebDAV web server does, and how to get started experimenting with the relevant source code.
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# Mentors
*Who is willing to spend about five hours a week (estimated) helping a student do it right?*
* [Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn](http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI:DIR2-RO:j74uhg25nwdpjpacl6rkat2yhm:kav7ijeft5h7r7rxdp5bgtlt3viv32yabqajkrdykozia5544jqa/wiki.html) (Python/C/C++/JavaScript, cryptography) []mailto:zooko@zooko.com
* [Jack Lloyd](http://www.randombit.net) (C/C++/Python, cryptography)
- * David-Sarah Hopwood (david-sarah at jacaranda.org) (Python/C/JavaScript, SFTP frontend, security+cryptography)
+ * [David-Sarah Hopwood]mailto:david-sarah@jacaranda.org (Python/C/JavaScript, SFTP frontend, security+cryptography)
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This page was modelled on [the NetBSD Summer-of-Code page](http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/soc-projects.html).