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[tor-commits] r25502: {website} Dropping last year's tails projects Checked with intrigeri a (website/trunk/getinvolved/en)



Author: atagar
Date: 2012-03-05 15:41:00 +0000 (Mon, 05 Mar 2012)
New Revision: 25502

Modified:
   website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml
Log:
Dropping last year's tails projects

Checked with intrigeri and the prior three tails projects are no longer
relevant. He sent replacements that I'll add in a sec.



Modified: website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml
===================================================================
--- website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml	2012-03-03 19:47:35 UTC (rev 25501)
+++ website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml	2012-03-05 15:41:00 UTC (rev 25502)
@@ -347,6 +347,7 @@
     and still under very active development.
     </p>
     
+    <!--
     <p>
     <b>Project Ideas:</b><br />
     <i><a href="#tailsStartMenu">Custom GDM3 startup menu, aka.
@@ -356,6 +357,7 @@
     <i><a href="#tailsDebianLive">Improve Debian Live support for
     persistence</a></i>
     </p>
+    -->
     
     <a id="project-torsocks"></a>
     <h3><a href="http://code.google.com/p/torsocks/";>Torsocks</a> (<a
@@ -724,35 +726,6 @@
     </ul>
     </li>
     
-    <a id="tailsStartMenu"></a>
-    <li>
-    <b>Custom GDM3 startup menu, aka. tails-greeter</b>
-    <br>
-    Priority: <i>High</i>
-    <br>
-    Effort Level: <i>Medium</i>
-    <br>
-    Skill Level: <i>Medium to High</i>
-    <br>
-    Likely Mentors: <i>intrigeri, anonym</i>
-    <p>Several major upcoming Tails features need to gather user input at
-    startup time: bridges support, persistence, MAC address anonymization,
-    etc.</p>
-    <p>Existing boot menus lack the graphical widgets and generally
-    user-friendliness needed. Hence it was decided to implement Tails startup
-    menu in GDM3: GDM3's default login/password prompt needs to be replaced
-    with a custom GTK+ application hereby named tails-greeter that allows the
-    user to provide any input necessary.</p>
-    <p>Anyone undertaking this project should be familiar with GNU/Linux and
-    application development; no other skill is required, apart of the ability
-    to quickly find practical answers in APIs and documentation for many
-    technologies she knows nothing about: this challenging coding project will
-    indeed involve getting familiar with some modern GNU/Linux Desktop
-    technologies such as D-Bus, GNOME and GConf. Python/GTK+ is probably the
-    best suited language for the task.</p>
-    <p>For more information see <a href="https://tails.boum.org/todo/boot_menu/";>https://tails.boum.org/todo/boot_menu/</a></p>
-    </li>
-
     <a id="orbot-torbutton"></a>
     <li>
     <b>TorButton for Mobile Firefox 4 or Custom Browser on Android</b>
@@ -1185,68 +1158,6 @@
     </p>
     </li>
     
-    <a id="tailsMetadataAnonymizing"></a>
-    <li>
-    <b>Meta-data anonymizing toolkit for file publication</b>
-    <br>
-    Priority: <i>Medium</i>
-    <br>
-    Effort Level: <i>Low to Medium</i>
-    <br>
-    Skill Level: <i>Low to Medium</i>
-    <br>
-    Likely Mentors: <i>intrigeri, anonym</i>
-    <p>Tor helps greatly in publishing files anonymously. However, much personal
-    information can be enclosed *inside* such published files' meta-data: GPS
-    coordinates, author's name and so on. Anyone who wants to anonymously
-    publish a file can thus far too easily de-anonymize herself.</p>
-    <p>A set of tools allowing users to easily inspect and clean up meta-data in files
-    would benefit Tor users, and would e.g. be shipped in Tails.</p>
-    <p>A graphical user interface is a must, but library and command-line
-    interfaces are most welcome so that future work can add support for
-    cleaning published files to various publishing tools, such as desktop
-    social networking clients and Web content management systems.</p>
-    <p>This project mostly consists of writing glue between the many existing
-    tools and libraries that provide read/write access to files' meta-data. An
-    extensible program design would probably be the best bet, so that support
-    for other kinds of files can easily be added later.</p>
-    <p>The meta-data cleaning toolkit would run at least on GNU/Linux;
-    additional Windows and/or Mac OS X support would be welcome. The tools used
-    would be up to the students. The detailed specification is ready and will
-    be published soon.</p>
-    </li>   
- 
-    <a id="tailsDebianLive"></a>
-    <li>
-    <b>Improve Debian Live support for persistence</b>
-    <br>
-    Priority: <i>Medium</i>
-    <br>
-    Effort Level: <i>Medium</i>
-    <br>
-    Skill Level: <i>Low to Medium</i>
-    <br>
-    Likely Mentors: <i>intrigeri, anonym</i>
-    <p>Data persistence is a somewhat tricky topic in a Live system context,
-    especially one such as Tails, which is explicitly designed to avoid
-    leaving any trace of its use.</p>
-    <p>Some real-life use cases, however, require some kind of data
-    persistence. To start with, Tails should (carefully) support persistence of
-    application-specific configurations (e.g. GnuPG keyring) and of a user
-    arbitrary data store. Note that persistence in Tails will always be opt-in
-    and require encrypted storage.</p>
-    <p>The backend work consists of improving Debian Live's existing
-    persistence features to make them suit the specific context of Tails. A trust
-    relationship is already established with upstream who is happy to merge our
-    changes. The codebase is not that small and much refactoring is needed, so
-    this really is a programming project rather than a fire'n'forget shell
-    script hack contest.</p>
-    <p>Anyone undertaking this project must be familiar with GNU/Linux, and
-    preferably with Debian. Being able to (quickly learn to) write clean and
-    safe programs in shell is also needed.</p>
-    <p>For more information, see <a href="https://tails.boum.org/todo/persistence/";>https://tails.boum.org/todo/persistence/</a>.</p>
-    </li>
-    
     <a id="torsocksForOSX"></a>
     <li>
     <b>Make torsocks/dsocks work on OS X</b>

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