Dear Developers
I have heard about this funding opportunity at the OpenITP (Thx Sumana).
See Email below.
At Kiwix, we think the spreading of content should be as much as
possible decentralized... for technical and political reasons.
Our current setup is based on Metalink and HTTP protocols, but the
solutions we use (Mirrorbrain/aria2) are ready to deal with P2P using
Bittorrent (also decentralized). This just need a little bit work to get
it running.
This work is more than ever before essential for Kiwix: we start to have
pretty serious amount of data transfers and bandwidth constraints/costs
are increasing dangerously.
In addition, the way we spread the content catalog (the list of ZIM
files available to download) is still really centralized and we also
search a way to allow people to exchange this list in an ad-hoc P2P manner.
We think that all together this could made a really interesting topic
for an OpenITP grant proposal. If a C++ developer is motivated by that
topic I'm ready to help him getting that grant request done.
Kind regards
Emmanuel
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Sujet: [Wikitech-l] Grants available for
anti-surveillance/anti-censorship design & other tech work
Date : Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:39:35 -0500
De : Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org>
Répondre à : Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Organisation : Wikimedia Foundation
Pour : Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>, "A list
for the design team." <design(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
http://openitp.org/?q=openitp_first_round_of_2013_project_funding_now_open_…
OpenITP's first round of 2013 project funding is now open for proposals!
Deadline: 31 March 2013
"OpenITP project grants are meant to support specific technical efforts
to improve users' ability to circumvent censorship and surveillance on
the Internet. "Technical" doesn't have to mean software or hardware --
for example, we also consider efforts to improve user experience through
translation, testing, projects to improve documentation, meetings that
get developers together in person to solve specific problems, etc. The
main thing we're looking for is that your proposed project is finite
(e.g. has a deadline, is scoped) and contributes to OpenITP's core
mission of enabling freedom of communication on the Internet.
We're interested in all good proposals, but note we're especially
receptive to proposals that improve user experience (UX) and in
translation (of both software and documentation). Don't take that as a
filter, though: if you have a good proposal that's not about UX or
translation, we still want to receive it.
While our grants don't have a hard limit, they tend to be in the
$5k-$30k USD range: enough to fund a specific piece of work, or to
provide seed funding for a new idea, but not enough to be a primary
long-term funding source. Therefore we try not to burden applicants with
a lot of bureaucratic overhead and paperwork to apply for a grant. It's
enough to send us a brief description of what you have in mind, and
point to public URLs for further details. Since we only fund open source
work, we expect that most proposals we receive will already have been
discussed in publicly-archived forums anyway, and perhaps written up on
a public web page -- though there may be exceptions, such as projects
that are becoming open source but aren't all the way there yet. In any
case, we're comfortable clicking on links and reading stuff on the Web.
You're not required to package everything up in one PDF to make a
proposal. Just tell us what you want to do, make it easy for us to find
what we need to find, and we'll take it from there. We'll ask you
questions as we have them."
The page also includes examples of things OpenITP funded in their last
round. Please take a look! It would be *amazing* if someone could use
this opportunity to help people read and contribute to Wikimedia safely.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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