[Ninux-Wireless] Fwd: PhD offer on Garage, an open-source distributed object storage system

[Ilario Gelmetti]

Nel caso qualcuno stesse cercando un posto di dottorato su tecnologie 
per reti decentralizzate :)


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Subject: [Battlemesh] PhD offer on Garage, an open-source distributed 
object storage system
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 21:09:18 +0100
From: Baptiste Jonglez via Battlemesh <battlemesh at ml.ninux.org>
To: battlemesh at ml.ninux.org

Hi battlemesh list,

Besides community network activities, I'm a member of a non-profit
association called Deuxfleurs [1] and we develop cool software to
facilitate self-hosting.  We encourage something we call
"entre-hébergement" in French (rough translation: "together-hosting",
which means managing a small distributed hosting infrastructure as group).
I guess this approach could make sense in a community network context.

The main software we develop is Garage: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/
It's a self-hosted object storage system that can replicate data over
low-quality network links and still manage consistency when
reading/writing.  It can be used as a backend for Nextcloud, for media
files for Mastodon or Matrix, to host websites...

We are looking for a PhD student to work on the distributed algorithms
behind Garage and to implement improved algorithms.  The funding is for
three years in France.

More details and links here: 
https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/blog/2024-01-phd-offering/

The deadline is 31st January, and the PhD will start in September 2024.

Regards,
Baptiste

[1] https://deuxfleurs.fr/