[olpc-nz] Promoting Apache CRCSync -

[Tim McNamara]

Martin -

I'll make sure there's at least a lightning talk on Friday.

Tim McNamara
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On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi OLPC NZers!
>
> Just writing this email, I miss Wellington already. How are things
> there? As much as I'd like to, I actually can't join LCA today.
>
> So I am damned envious of you people there. Hope you take lots of pics
> for me to ogle.
>
> There is a favour I'd want to ask you -- if I was able to make it
> to LCA, my big thing would be to promote this wonky little project
> that would make a huge difference for the schools that OLPC works with
> -- an http proxy that uses an rsync-like protocol to only transmit the
> deltas of webpages, making your reloads of slashdot almost free:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Apache_Proxy_CRCsync
>
> We need C coders that can handle apache internals... and savvy testers
> that are happy to compile an apache module, and test it by using it
> and telling us about what works and what doesn't...
>
> LCA will be full of potential victims... maybe you can help me? I'll
> send Belgian chocolate in payment...
>
> Right now it is being pushed by Toby Collet (an Aucklander, now in
> London) and by Alex Wulms (from Holland); it's actually based on Rusty
> Russell's implementation of crcsync. But it's a tiny effort, and needs
> more hands.
>
> The code works, and I am hoping for someone to help us package it (deb
> and rpms for example) so that testers find it easier to play with it.
> There is a patch for firefox in the works (to support the protocol).
>
> cheers,
>
>
> m
> --
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