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8)     <a href="<page index>">Home &raquo; </a>

9)     <a href="<page getinvolved/volunteer>">Get Involved &raquo; </a>

10)     <a href="<page getinvolved/open-positions>">Open Positions</a>
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13) 
14) <h1>Tor: Open Positions</h1>

15) <hr>

16) 
17) <p>Tor is hiring!  We're looking for self-motivated individuals who are
18) able to work independently and want to help make Tor better.  These are
19) short-term contract positions ranging from one to three months.</p>
20) 
21) <p>In particular, we're looking for a few people:</p>
22) <ul>
23) <li><a href="#vidaliadev">Vidalia Developer</a></li>
24) <li><a href="#windowsdev">Microsoft Windows Developer</a></li>
25) </ul>
26) 
27) <p>Working on Tor is rewarding because:</p>
28) <ul>
29) <li>You can work your own hours in your own locations. As long as you
30) get the job done, we don't care about the process.</li>
31) <li>We only write free (open source) software. The tools you make won't
32) be locked down or rot on a shelf.</li>
33) <li>You will work with a world-class team of anonymity experts and
34) developers on what is already the largest and most active strong anonymity
35) network ever.</li>
36) </ul>
37) 
38) <p>We want you to have good communication and writing skills (in particular,
39) you should know how to keep other project members informed of your
40) progress), and we want you to know how to figure out what needs doing and
41) then take the initiative to do it. Most project members play more than

42) one role, so combination developer/activists are very welcome.</p>

43) 
44) <p>The best way to get noticed as a good developer is to join the community
45) and start helping out. Smart code commits and ideas are welcome anytime.
46) We have a great core group of developers working on the Tor software
47) itself as well as supporting software like Vidalia, Torbutton, etc. All
48) of our contractors came through volunteering first.</p>
49) 
50) <a id="vidaliadev"></a>
51) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#vidaliadev">Vidalia Developer</a></h3>

52) <p><a href="<page projects/vidalia>">Vidalia</a> is the cross-platform graphical user interface to Tor written

53) in C++ using the Qt libraries.  It is used by millions of people
54) successfully.  Our current developer is a volunteer and otherwise
55) occupied with finishing his PhD.  We're looking for someone who knows
56) C++, Qt, and would like to kickstart development on the next generation
57) of Vidalia.  Some suggested next steps involve:</p>
58) <ul>
59) <li>Implementing the KDE Marble interface into Vidalia for better and
60) more accurate mappings of relays to countries.  Plus, it just looks
61) cool.</li>
62) <li>Implementing the ability to click a country and instruct Tor to
63) either start or end circuits in that country.</li>
64) <li>Work on bug fixes and enhancements as suggested by users.</li>
65) <li>Give Vidalia the ability to control the http proxy included, to
66) start, stop, and possibly configure either privoxy, polipo, or an http
67) shim we ship in the combined bundles of tor, vidalia, and polipo.</li>
68) <li>Possibly re-design the Vidalia interface to have different modes for
69) different levels of user sophistication.  Many users see a button or a
70) setting and feel they have to change it.  The defaults are set to ensure
71) users are sufficiently anonymous.  How can we better hide the complexity
72) of Tor configurations?</li>
73) </ul>
74) 
75) <a id="windowsdev"></a>
76) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#windowsdev">Microsoft Windows Developer</a></h3>
77) <p>This person needs to be very familiar with Windows at a system and

78) network level.  We're looking for someone to help make Tor on Windows

79) more compatible and work more reliably as a relay.
80) There are a number of projects relating to Windows that current need a
81) skilled developer:</p>
82) <ul>
83) <li>Develop a Tor network shim to redirect all traffic through Tor.
84) OpenVPN has a network layer device for Windows that redirects traffic
85) through the OpenVPN connection.  Is this the model Tor should be using?
86) Or is there something else that may work better?</li>
87) <li>Tor relays under non-server editions of Windows run into WSAENOBUFS
88) problems after a short while.  This problem is described in detail in <a
89) href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/98">bug ticket
90) 98</a>.  So far, there are no solutions. We think libevent 2.0 with its
91) bufferevents code will help solve the problem.</li>
92) </ul>
93) 
94) <p>Periodically we get new funding to work on more development
95) projects.  Your goal should be to get into the list of <a href="<page

96) about/corepeople>">core project members</a> so we think of you when new

97) funding arrives.</p>