Thanks a lot for the resources. I am currently going through them to clear out my basic concepts. Also, it would be great if you could share some more project related resources so I could play around with them a bit and experiment.
Shivam On Sun, 5 Mar 2023 at 13:36, pukkamustard <pukkamust...@posteo.net> wrote: > > Hi Shivam, > > Thanks for your interest! > > Shivam Madlani <shivammadla...@gmail.com> writes: > > > 1) The project title states "decentralized"... which i don't get. How > > exactly is it decentralized? Similar to a P2P file sharing tech or > > something else (BitTorrent)? > > Actually it is similar to P2P file sharing exactly like BitTorrent :) > > The terms "centralized", "decentralized" and "distributed" are a bit > confusing. I like to think of them as illustrated in a paper by P. Baran > from 1964 [1]: > > - Centralized means that all nodes connect to one single central node. > - Decentralized means that nodes connect to a smaller set of nodes that > may be interconnected. This is similar to what is sometimes called > "federated" networks. > - Distributed means that all nodes are equivalent and connect to many > other nodes (like a grid or mesh). > > [1] > https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_memoranda/2006/RM3420.pdf#page=16&zoom=90,-494,792 > > The goal of the project is to make Guix substitute distribution > something more in-between decentralied and distributed. Currently it > resembels something between centralized and decentralized. > > The project will work atop of previous work to make substitute > distribution decentralized: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/52555 > > The idea is to use an encoding of content that allows the content, in > this case substitutes, to be distributed over many different protocols > and transport mediums including IPFS, GNUnet, NDN, CoAP, HTTP. The basic > ideas are very similar to BitTorrent. > > There are a few directions in which a project go (quote from the project > description): > > - Improving the user experience and integration > - Adding more transport protocols (e.g. IPFS, GNUnet, NDN, CoAP,...) > - Conducting performance evaluations > > > 2) As per the project idea I interpreted that the technologies involved > > would be c/c++, shell and a bit of networking. Is this correct or am I > > missing something? > > The main programming language involved is Guile Scheme (as already > mentioned by Csepp). > > There might be some interaction with existing tools and libraries that > would require programming in other languages (e.g. C/C++/Rust/Go) but > that is not the focus or main task of the project. > > > 3) What would be the duration of the project? (175hrs/350hrs). > > I think 175h should be enough to do interesting and meaningfull work. > > Csepp <raingl...@riseup.net> writes: > > > As for other details, I CC'd Pukkamustard, who will be the mentor for > > this project if I'm not mistaken, and should be able to fill in the > > blanks. > > Thanks for the CC, also CCing Attila who might co-mentor (yay!). > > -pukkamustard >
