Hi Tor Community,
My name is Tengey Junior Patrick, a 4th year student of the University of Ghana, in Ghana of course. I am offering computer science and Mathematics and am a programmer mainly in java who is very interested in participating in GSoC 2012 with Tor.
I have read that Tor is participating in GSoC 2012. I am very enthused about what Tor does and I can’t wait to be a part of this campaign of improving Internet privacy and security. Especially because I have been a victim of Internet Surveillance where my password was tempered with so I am well motivated for this. I have been observing your community interactions for some time now.
I have already subscribed to the tor-announce mailing list and the tor-dev list. I have also been idling on the #tor-dev on the OFTC IRC channel. I have gone through the proposed students’ projects [2] and some documentations on "Running Tor" [1] . I have downloaded and installed the stable version of the Vidalia bundle and I am acquainting myself with its usage. I want to know if I am doing the right things since I am new to Tor. Also I want to know if the project on "Tor Controller Status Event Interface for Vidalia" is still available to work on. I particularly program in Java and have done some work on UI developements. Also I am quite proficient in the english language and can play around with photoshop as well. But I don’t really program in c++ though I have learnt the basics in skul, so does that disqualify me from working on the project. If not, what else must I know prior to the application in order to get acquainted with your practices and better understand your organizational set up. I will be very glad if help is given me in this regard. Thanks a lot.
[1]https://www.torproject.org/docs/documentation.html.en [2]https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en#Projects