[tbb-dev] [tor-project] We need project ideas for GSoC 2017!

[Damian Johnson]

Looks good to me! Tad uncertain about the scope of the first and if
it's enough to occupy a student for the whole summer but I don't have
a clear picture of what's involved.

I'll add these to the site tomorrow.

Cheers! -Damian



On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Tom Ritter <tom at ritter.vg> wrote:
> Hey Damian, how's this:
>
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>
> Crash Reporter for Tor Browser
>
> Likely Mentors: Tom Ritter, Georg
>
> Currently Tor Browser disables the Crash Reporter. We would like to
> build it reproducible, enable it, and configure it to report crashes
> containing non-detailed and impersonal information to Tor, on a .onion
> submission platform that would allow us to view and explore the
> crashes.
>
> The project will entail enabling the Crash Report on Tor Browser and
> creating a backend to receive reports from it. Once created, the crash
> reporter data will be analyzed and modified to fit Tor's requirements
> for personal data collection. As time permits, we will update the
> build system to ensure the crash reporter is built reproducibly and
> add data analysis tools for the crash report database to visualize top
> crashers and similar statistics.
>
> -------
>
> Making Tor Browser Faster
> Likely Mentors: Tom Ritter, Georg
>
> This project will enable and take advantage of HTTP/2, the Alt-Srv
> header, and tor's new single hop .onion mode to enable websites to
> transparently move their traffic to a .onion address. In addition to
> improvements in security, we will benchmark page load and paint times
> under normal HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and when taking advantage of features
> such as Server Push.
>
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>
>
>
> -tom
>
> On 30 January 2017 at 01:23, Damian Johnson <atagar at torproject.org> wrote:
>> Hi Tom. I'm not familiar with most of those but sound good to me. :P
>>
>> When you feel confident in the project ideas if you shoot me something
>> to paste into the site I'd be happy to add it.
>>
>> Cheers! -Damian
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 9:17 PM, Tom Ritter <tom at ritter.vg> wrote:
>>> Here are some ideas I'd be willing to mentor if anyone thinks they're good/bad:
>>>
>>> - Creating a Crash Reporter and accompanying backend
>>>
>>> - Privacy-preserving metrics gathering (RAPPOR + opt-in) - this might
>>> be too ambitious though...
>>>
>>> - .onion, HTTP/2, Alt-Srv investigation - An idea of speeding up sites
>>> by serving them over a .onion with HTTP2 using the Alt-Srv header,
>>> probably with judicious use of server push
>>>
>>> - Security Slider Enhancements (Putting more features in FF behind the
>>> slider) - this one is probably not ambitious enough
>>>
>>>
>>> -tom
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Damian Johnson <atagar at torproject.org>
>>> Date: 29 January 2017 at 15:57
>>> Subject: [tor-project] We need project ideas for GSoC 2017!
>>> To: tor-project at lists.torproject.org
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi all! This week I'm getting our ducks in a row to apply for Google
>>> Summer of Code 2017...
>>>
>>> https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
>>>
>>> I just trimmed our volunteer page of projects that were done last year
>>> and sadly that doesn't leave us with much. We need mentors and project
>>> ideas!
>>>
>>> Got anything you'd care to mentor this summer? If so please let me know!
>>> Just send me a description like the ones on the following and I'd be
>>> happy to add it to our site...
>>>
>>> https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en#Coding
>>>
>>> Please note that all projects must have two mentors, one of which is
>>> an established tor person. If you're not part of our internal community
>>> that's fine, but please find a core developer to co-sponsor your
>>> project and act as a secondary mentor.
>>>
>>> Thanks! -Damian
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