Re: Looking to contribute to GNUnet

[bastianschmidt]

Hi Sahil,


I don't got much to contribute to your mail - others will do that - other
than:
Welcome in the community! :)


Greetings,
Bastian Schmidt

On Thu, March 7, 2024 11:48 am, valdaarhun wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> My name is Sahil. I go by the pseudonym valdaarhun on Github.
> I have an interest in P2P systems and network engineering. I
> had worked on a semester long research project [1] on P2P networks on
> distributed key generation under a professor while in university as psart
> of my bachelor's program.
>
> I am no longer in university but would like to continue working
> in this realm outside of my day job. The P2P developed as part of my
> project was an impractical one tailored for the purposed of the project. I
> would now like to get hands-on experience on a practical P2P network and
> architecture.
>
> I am not eligible for GSoC but would like to engage with the
> community and look forward to becoming a long-term contributor to GNUnet.
>
> I have already started going through the documentation [2] but
> haven't set up a development environment yet. I'll do that too.
>
> I have taken a look at the project' roadmap [3]. Some items are very
> intersting such as onion routing with RPS but they have been planned to be
> worked on after the 1.0 release.
>
> I would love to get some advice on what I could work on as a first
> project. In the roadmap, the checkbox for NAT hasn't been checked under the
> TNG section. Can I help out with that?
>
>
> Or how's the idea of writing a new communicator plugin for TNG?
> For eg., a plugin for XMPP [4]? I am not sure if this needed in GNUnet.
> I thought I would put my idea out there to get some feedback.
>
>
> I look forward to hearing from you.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Sahil
> https://github.com/valdaarhun
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/valdaarhun/Distributed-Key-Generation-Algorithm
> [2] https://docs.gnunet.org/latest/
> [3] https://www.gnunet.org/en/roadmap.html
> [4] https://xmpp.org/
>
>
> PS: I sent the above email earlier but I had not subscribed to the
> mailing list at the time. I believe this email might have been sent to the
>  moderator's queue because of that. I have subscribed to the mailing list
>  now. I thought I would try resending the email so it lands in the
> mailing list's inbox. I apologize for any inconvenience caused.
>
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