Gunnar Wolf: > Nicolas Dandrimont dijo [Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 05:12:30PM +0100]: >> Hey everyone, >> >> Some of you have been waiting for it, and it's finally time: we are looking >> for >> mentors and project ideas for Debian's next participation in outreach >> programmes, from May to August 2016. >> >> Thanks to our sponsors, we will be participating in the 12th round of >> Outreachy >> [1], and we have applied as a mentoring organization for the 2016 edition of >> Google Summer of Code [2]. >> (...) >> If you would like an intern to participate in your corner of Debian during >> the >> next few months, here is your opportunity! Go to our Projects Ideas page [3], >> describe your idea using our template, and give us a heads-up on the mailing >> list [4]. As we're participating in Outreachy, all kinds of projects are >> welcome, >> whether technical in nature or not. > > Hi, Nicolas, and other SOC people. > Hi, fellow keyring-mainters, > > I have been trying to get some interesting data out of doing > historical analysis of our keyring, as well as adding some health > checks on it, getting some indicators, maybe see whether we are > heading in the right direction or there is something we are missing. I > have been quite short on time, so my work has slept for months. > > I am targetting getting two kinds of output: On one side, something > useful for Debian, both as documentation regarding our practices and > the aforementioned keyring health indicators. On the other side, I > want to get some publishable results; for that, I have been working a > bit with people at my universities (on one, I am a teacher, on the > other, I'm a graduate student). But any extra pair of hands and eyes, > plus a keen set of neurons linking them together, might prove very > useful. > > I have not shared much of my work even with keyring-maint itself; I > have at least one script that does interesting work, but is soooooo > slow and suboptimal I'm rather interested in rewriting it from > scratch. Anyway, I do have two bits of (very preliminary) output that > can show approximately where I want this to be heading (both in > Spanish, covering very similar work): > > - Poster presented at a local conference: "Strengthening the web of > trust in a geographically distributed project' (oct 2015) > http://ru.iiec.unam.mx/2767/ > > - Corresponding presentation; very similar contents, in a presentation > format, as well as a (partly cut :-( ) video are available at > > https://congreso.seguridad.unam.mx/2015/conferencia/fortalecimiento-del-llavero-de-confianza-en-un-proyecto-geogr%C3%A1ficamente-distribuido > > So, if you think this is SOC material, I'll be happy to explain where > I want to head next.
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