Metalink in 2012

[Anthony Bryan]

I just wanted to say thank you & well done to everyone involved in Metalink!

2012 was a great year. we had many opportunities & accomplished a lot!

we had new versions of Appupdater, aria2, curl, DownThemAll!, KGet,
mulk, libmetalink, MirrorBrain, & others come out.

curl was a great addition to metalink clients. the curl community is
awesome & we got help with libmetalink & port specific stuff.

there were new apps like mget & the GSOC projects that came out.
metalink apps like aria2, curl, & libmetalink are available on
Homebrew, a package manager for OS X.

we participated in Google Summer of Code, which took up a good chunk
of the year.
we had GSOC projects with 5 awesome students from around the world & 6
great mentors, including wget with the GNU project, Metalink
Downloader (Chrome extension), Apache Traffic Server metalink plugin,
KGet, DTA!, and webui-aria2.

Tatsuhiro & I went to the GSOC Mentor Summit at Google HQ in October.
this was the first time we met, the first time I had been to any tech
conference or met any open source people in person. it was great to
put faces to many names like Micah & Giuseppe from wget & other
projects.

we joined the Software Freedom Conservancy (after 3 years in the
making!), which essentially makes us a non-profit in the USA that can
accept tax deductible donations. SFC was very helpful in coordinating
stuff & making it easier at the Mentor Summit.
http://sfconservancy.org/news/2012/nov/20/metalink-joins/

we started work on an Internet Draft for Metalink/XML Clients,
Publishers, and Caches.
we also have Internet Drafts for 3 new FTP commands.

I hope we can accomplish much more in 2013!

THANK YOU!

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