Hello,
I'm a physics student at Durham University who has been following GNUnet
for about a year now. If someone is willing to point me in the right
direction, then I am more than willing to contribute to the project in
some way.
I have plenty of experience with Python, as a hobby and a little in the
large, if that is applicable anywhere, and I'm somewhat familiar with
writing static web pages. I wouldn't trust myself to work on the C
codebase itself, as I don't have much experience with systems
programming beyond some very simple projects in C++ and Rust, and have
no idea about writing safe C.
Helping out with GNUnet, in some way, seems like a good way for me to
learn about contributing a free software project, while also
contributing to society at large. Also, I have might have something that
I can contribute already.
A few months ago I thought that trying to re-implement bits of GNUnet
would be an interesting non-trivial Rust project. The effort fell
through, learning physics and how to use Rust and C's FFIs proved to be
impossible to do at the same time.
As part of that, I had a go at picking the big (and rather overwhelming)
process architecture diagram apart into a few smaller pieces. I'm happy
to share some SVGs of these smaller diagrams, as they might aid in
understanding the different subsystems of GNUnet.
Let me know if there's anything else that I can help with.
Thanks,
William
