<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hello! I am a newbie & very eager to contribute to Tor development.</div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I have been using tor since a year and a half & I have been </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;">looking around the website & the source codes since past month.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;">The upcoming GSoC has provided a very nice opportunity for me contribute to whatever extent I can.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">I have interest towards Stem & Obfsproxy due to their </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;">applications & would like some beginner's guidance for the same.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Also, I would appreciate if anyone could provide me some online <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt;">references that would help me</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt;">understand networking better (in order to understand the source code fully, also is that completely necessary?)</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt;">PS - I am very well acquainted in Python & have also contributed to it's development but only in Documentation aspect,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt;">hence have good knowledge of revision control, building, etc.</span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt;">Thanks!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt;">-Ashish Patil</span></div></div></body></html>