Author: phobos Date: 2011-06-08 11:39:53 +0000 (Wed, 08 Jun 2011) New Revision: 24813 Modified: website/trunk/getinvolved/en/open-positions.wml Log: clean up the open-positions we don't have. Modified: website/trunk/getinvolved/en/open-positions.wml =================================================================== --- website/trunk/getinvolved/en/open-positions.wml 2011-06-08 11:37:46 UTC (rev 24812) +++ website/trunk/getinvolved/en/open-positions.wml 2011-06-08 11:39:53 UTC (rev 24813) @@ -14,16 +14,10 @@ <h1>Tor: Open Positions</h1> <hr> -<p>Tor is hiring! We're looking for self-motivated individuals who are -able to work independently and want to help make Tor better. These are -short-term contract positions ranging from one to three months.</p> +<p>Tor is currently not hiring. We are generally looking for +self-motivated individuals who are able to work independently and want +to help make Tor better. </p> -<p>In particular, we're looking for a few people:</p> -<ul> -<li><a href="#vidaliadev">Vidalia Developer</a></li> -<li><a href="#windowsdev">Microsoft Windows Developer</a></li> -</ul> - <p>Working on Tor is rewarding because:</p> <ul> <li>You can work your own hours in your own locations. As long as you @@ -47,50 +41,6 @@ itself as well as supporting software like Vidalia, Torbutton, etc. All of our contractors came through volunteering first.</p> -<a id="vidaliadev"></a> -<h3><a class="anchor" href="#vidaliadev">Vidalia Developer</a></h3> -<p><a href="<page projects/vidalia>">Vidalia</a> is the cross-platform graphical user interface to Tor written -in C++ using the Qt libraries. It is used by millions of people -successfully. Our current developer is a volunteer and otherwise -occupied with finishing his PhD. We're looking for someone who knows -C++, Qt, and would like to kickstart development on the next generation -of Vidalia. Some suggested next steps involve:</p> -<ul> -<li>Implementing the KDE Marble interface into Vidalia for better and -more accurate mappings of relays to countries. Plus, it just looks -cool.</li> -<li>Implementing the ability to click a country and instruct Tor to -either start or end circuits in that country.</li> -<li>Work on bug fixes and enhancements as suggested by users.</li> -<li>Give Vidalia the ability to control the http proxy included, to -start, stop, and possibly configure either privoxy, polipo, or an http -shim we ship in the combined bundles of tor, vidalia, and polipo.</li> -<li>Possibly re-design the Vidalia interface to have different modes for -different levels of user sophistication. Many users see a button or a -setting and feel they have to change it. The defaults are set to ensure -users are sufficiently anonymous. How can we better hide the complexity -of Tor configurations?</li> -</ul> - -<a id="windowsdev"></a> -<h3><a class="anchor" href="#windowsdev">Microsoft Windows Developer</a></h3> -<p>This person needs to be very familiar with Windows at a system and -network level. We're looking for someone to help make Tor on Windows -more compatible and work more reliably as a relay. -There are a number of projects relating to Windows that current need a -skilled developer:</p> -<ul> -<li>Develop a Tor network shim to redirect all traffic through Tor. -OpenVPN has a network layer device for Windows that redirects traffic -through the OpenVPN connection. Is this the model Tor should be using? -Or is there something else that may work better?</li> -<li>Tor relays under non-server editions of Windows run into WSAENOBUFS -problems after a short while. This problem is described in detail in <a -href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/98">bug ticket -98</a>. So far, there are no solutions. We think libevent 2.0 with its -bufferevents code will help solve the problem.</li> -</ul> - <p>Periodically we get new funding to work on more development projects. Your goal should be to get into the list of <a href="<page about/corepeople>">core project members</a> so we think of you when new