Re: Regarding GSoC

[Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org>]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Sukhbir Singh wrote:

> Hello everyone.
>
> I am interested in participating in Google Summer of Code this year and 
> have a project that pertains to the distribution of Debian over 
> BitTorrent.This is somewhat a solution to the problem posted on the Idea 
> List page ( 
> http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2010/RobustBitTorrentInfrastructure)
>
> I had written a technical paper about it, which explains in detail as to 
> how content distribution can be maximized in a BitTorrent download.
>
> I won't say that it would be the solution to all your distribution 
> problems, but yes - if implemented, Debian would be able to reduce some 
> of the downtime/ congestion it suffers when using BitTorrent CDN.
>
> If any mentor is interested, I can send over the paper; it has the idea 
> explained in detail. After that, we can proceed accordingly.

That sounds cool. Can you email a link to the paper to this list? You 
might also check with the debian-mirrors list to see if people there find 
it interesting.

-- Asheesh.

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