Hi!
I am interested in participating in Google's Summer of Code this year and implementing the Torbutton equivalent for Thunderbird [0].
I have been discussing the project with Mike Perry and we feel that it is possible to implement this. The first step was removing the hostname Thunderbird puts in the outgoing message header, which we easily fixed. That gave us the initial motivation to pursue this further.
There are a number of issue that still remain, however we feel that those can be easily worked out. We have put all probable solutions to Torbutton requirements from [1] in the attachment with this mail and are looking for your suggestions/ comments about this.
We have not submitted an application for this to Google yet; I intend to do that after gauging the response towards this proposal from the mailing list.
Let's hope that we can make this a success,
-- Thanks,
Sukhbir Singh
[0] - https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en#torbuttonForThunder... [1] - https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/en/design/#requirements
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On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Sukhbir Singh sukhbir.in@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
I am interested in participating in Google's Summer of Code this year and implementing the Torbutton equivalent for Thunderbird [0].
I have been discussing the project with Mike Perry and we feel that it is possible to implement this. The first step was removing the hostname Thunderbird puts in the outgoing message header, which we easily fixed. That gave us the initial motivation to pursue this further.
There are a number of issue that still remain, however we feel that those can be easily worked out. We have put all probable solutions to Torbutton requirements from [1] in the attachment with this mail and are looking for your suggestions/ comments about this.
We have not submitted an application for this to Google yet; I intend to do that after gauging the response towards this proposal from the mailing list.
Hi! Plenty of people have wanted a good mail client for use with Tor; this would be a fine thing to build.
Our application template is at https://www.torproject.org/about/gsoc.html.en#Template -- of the things it asks for, a couple of the most important are trying to figure out what your work plan is in as much detail as possible, and making sure that you include good coding samples to let the organization know what you can do.
Please let us know if you've got any specific questions that we can answer.
yrs,
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Nick Mathewson -
Sukhbir Singh