Author: atagar Date: 2012-03-05 15:41:00 +0000 (Mon, 05 Mar 2012) New Revision: 25502 Modified: website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml Log: Dropping last year's tails projects Checked with intrigeri and the prior three tails projects are no longer relevant. He sent replacements that I'll add in a sec. Modified: website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml =================================================================== --- website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml 2012-03-03 19:47:35 UTC (rev 25501) +++ website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml 2012-03-05 15:41:00 UTC (rev 25502) @@ -347,6 +347,7 @@ and still under very active development. </p> + <!-- <p> <b>Project Ideas:</b><br /> <i><a href="#tailsStartMenu">Custom GDM3 startup menu, aka. @@ -356,6 +357,7 @@ <i><a href="#tailsDebianLive">Improve Debian Live support for persistence</a></i> </p> + --> <a id="project-torsocks"></a> <h3><a href="http://code.google.com/p/torsocks/">Torsocks</a> (<a @@ -724,35 +726,6 @@ </ul> </li> - <a id="tailsStartMenu"></a> - <li> - <b>Custom GDM3 startup menu, aka. tails-greeter</b> - <br> - Priority: <i>High</i> - <br> - Effort Level: <i>Medium</i> - <br> - Skill Level: <i>Medium to High</i> - <br> - Likely Mentors: <i>intrigeri, anonym</i> - <p>Several major upcoming Tails features need to gather user input at - startup time: bridges support, persistence, MAC address anonymization, - etc.</p> - <p>Existing boot menus lack the graphical widgets and generally - user-friendliness needed. Hence it was decided to implement Tails startup - menu in GDM3: GDM3's default login/password prompt needs to be replaced - with a custom GTK+ application hereby named tails-greeter that allows the - user to provide any input necessary.</p> - <p>Anyone undertaking this project should be familiar with GNU/Linux and - application development; no other skill is required, apart of the ability - to quickly find practical answers in APIs and documentation for many - technologies she knows nothing about: this challenging coding project will - indeed involve getting familiar with some modern GNU/Linux Desktop - technologies such as D-Bus, GNOME and GConf. Python/GTK+ is probably the - best suited language for the task.</p> - <p>For more information see <a href="https://tails.boum.org/todo/boot_menu/">https://tails.boum.org/todo/boot_menu/</a></p> - </li> - <a id="orbot-torbutton"></a> <li> <b>TorButton for Mobile Firefox 4 or Custom Browser on Android</b> @@ -1185,68 +1158,6 @@ </p> </li> - <a id="tailsMetadataAnonymizing"></a> - <li> - <b>Meta-data anonymizing toolkit for file publication</b> - <br> - Priority: <i>Medium</i> - <br> - Effort Level: <i>Low to Medium</i> - <br> - Skill Level: <i>Low to Medium</i> - <br> - Likely Mentors: <i>intrigeri, anonym</i> - <p>Tor helps greatly in publishing files anonymously. However, much personal - information can be enclosed *inside* such published files' meta-data: GPS - coordinates, author's name and so on. Anyone who wants to anonymously - publish a file can thus far too easily de-anonymize herself.</p> - <p>A set of tools allowing users to easily inspect and clean up meta-data in files - would benefit Tor users, and would e.g. be shipped in Tails.</p> - <p>A graphical user interface is a must, but library and command-line - interfaces are most welcome so that future work can add support for - cleaning published files to various publishing tools, such as desktop - social networking clients and Web content management systems.</p> - <p>This project mostly consists of writing glue between the many existing - tools and libraries that provide read/write access to files' meta-data. An - extensible program design would probably be the best bet, so that support - for other kinds of files can easily be added later.</p> - <p>The meta-data cleaning toolkit would run at least on GNU/Linux; - additional Windows and/or Mac OS X support would be welcome. The tools used - would be up to the students. The detailed specification is ready and will - be published soon.</p> - </li> - - <a id="tailsDebianLive"></a> - <li> - <b>Improve Debian Live support for persistence</b> - <br> - Priority: <i>Medium</i> - <br> - Effort Level: <i>Medium</i> - <br> - Skill Level: <i>Low to Medium</i> - <br> - Likely Mentors: <i>intrigeri, anonym</i> - <p>Data persistence is a somewhat tricky topic in a Live system context, - especially one such as Tails, which is explicitly designed to avoid - leaving any trace of its use.</p> - <p>Some real-life use cases, however, require some kind of data - persistence. To start with, Tails should (carefully) support persistence of - application-specific configurations (e.g. GnuPG keyring) and of a user - arbitrary data store. Note that persistence in Tails will always be opt-in - and require encrypted storage.</p> - <p>The backend work consists of improving Debian Live's existing - persistence features to make them suit the specific context of Tails. A trust - relationship is already established with upstream who is happy to merge our - changes. The codebase is not that small and much refactoring is needed, so - this really is a programming project rather than a fire'n'forget shell - script hack contest.</p> - <p>Anyone undertaking this project must be familiar with GNU/Linux, and - preferably with Debian. Being able to (quickly learn to) write clean and - safe programs in shell is also needed.</p> - <p>For more information, see <a href="https://tails.boum.org/todo/persistence/">https://tails.boum.org/todo/persistence/</a>.</p> - </li> - <a id="torsocksForOSX"></a> <li> <b>Make torsocks/dsocks work on OS X</b>