[or-cvs] r18925: {website} Add two GSoC ideas by Steven. (website/trunk/en)

[kloesing at seul.org]

Author: kloesing
Date: 2009-03-11 20:22:04 -0400 (Wed, 11 Mar 2009)
New Revision: 18925

Modified:
   website/trunk/en/volunteer.wml
Log:
Add two GSoC ideas by Steven.


Modified: website/trunk/en/volunteer.wml
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--- website/trunk/en/volunteer.wml	2009-03-11 22:08:37 UTC (rev 18924)
+++ website/trunk/en/volunteer.wml	2009-03-12 00:22:04 UTC (rev 18925)
@@ -858,6 +858,64 @@
 </li>
 
 <li>
+<b>Tor Browser Bundle for Linux/Mac OS X</b>
+<br />
+Priority: <i>High</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>High</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Steven</i>
+<br />
+The Tor Browser bundle incorporates Tor, Firefox, and the Vidalia user
+interface (and optionally Pidgin IM). Components are pre-configured to
+operate in a secure way, and it has very few dependencies on the
+installed operating system. It has therefore become one of the most
+easy to use, and popular, ways to use Tor on Windows.
+<br />
+However, there is currently no comparable package for Linux and Mac OS
+X, so this project would be to implement Tor Browser Bundle for these
+platforms. This will involve modifications to Vidalia (C++), possibly
+Firefox (C) then creating and testing the launcher on a range of
+operating system versions and configurations to verify portability.
+<br />
+Students should be familiar with application development on one or
+preferably both of Linux and Mac OS X, and be comfortable with C/C++
+and shell scripting.
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<b>Simulator for slow Internet connections</b>
+<br />
+Priority: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Steven</i>
+<br />
+Many users of Tor have poor-quality Internet connections, giving low
+bandwidth, high latency, and high packet loss/re-ordering. User
+experience is that Tor reacts badly to these conditions, but it is
+difficult to improve the situation without being able to repeat the
+problems in the lab.
+<br />
+This project would be to build a simulation environment which
+replicates the poor connectivity so that the effect on Tor performance
+can be measured. Other components would be a testing utility to
+establish what are the properties of connections available, and to
+measure the effect of performance-improving modifications to Tor.
+<br />
+The tools used would be up to the student, but dummynet (for FreeBSD)
+and nistnet (for Linux) are two potential components on which this
+project could be built. Students should be experienced with network
+programming/debugging and TCP/IP, and preferably familiar with C and a
+scripting language.
+</li>
+
+<li>
 <b>Bring up new ideas!</b>
 <br />
 Don't like any of these? Look at the <a