[Soc-coordination] Regarding GSoC

[Per Andersson]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Sukhbir Singh <singheinstein at gmail.com> 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.

Just post a link to the paper here (or on the proposal page on the
wiki) so everybody can read it.


-- Per