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gui contest pages le@svn.torproject.org authored 18 years ago	`1) <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" 2) "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> 3) 4) <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> 5) <head>`
it's not a content, it's a... Roger Dingledine authored 18 years ago	`6) <title>Tor: GUI Competition</title>`
gui contest pages le@svn.torproject.org authored 18 years ago	7) <meta name="Author" content="Roger Dingledine, Elly Millican" /> 8) <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> 9) <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../stylesheet.css" /> 10) <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.ico" /> 11) </head> 12) 13) <body> 14) 15) <!-- TITLE BAR & NAVIGATION --> 16) <div class="center"> 17) 18) <table class="banner" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> 19) <tr> 20) <td class="banner-left"></td> 21) <td class="banner-middle"> 22) <a href="/index.html">Home</a> 23) \| <a href="/howitworks.html">How It Works</a> 24) \| <a href="/download.html">Download</a> 25) \| <a href="/documentation.html">Docs</a> 26) \| <a href="/users.html">Users</a> 27) \| <a href="/faq.html">FAQs</a> 28) \| <a href="/volunteer.html">Volunteer</a> 29) \| <a href="/developers.html" class="current">Developers</a> 30) \| <a href="/research.html">Research</a> 31) \| <a href="/people.html">People</a> 32) </td> 33) <td class="banner-right"></td> 34) </tr> 35) </table> 36) 37) <!-- END TITLE BAR & NAVIGATION --> 38) 39) 40) 41) <div class="main-column"> 42) 43) <!-- LEFT HAND MENU FOR GUI CONTEST PAGES --> 44) <div class="guileft"> 45) <div class="guimenu"> 46) 47) <div class="curveleft"> 48) <div class="curveright"> 49)   50) </div> 51) </div> 52) 53) <div class="guimenuinner">
it's not a content, it's a... Roger Dingledine authored 18 years ago	`54) <h1>Tor GUI Competition</h1>`
gui contest pages le@svn.torproject.org authored 18 years ago	`55) 56)`
Make website valid xhtml (gui) Thomas Sjögren authored 18 years ago	`57) <a class="on" href="index.html">Overview & Goals</a>`
ok, so that section title w... Roger Dingledine authored 18 years ago	`58) <a href="categories.html">What to Submit</a>`
gui contest pages le@svn.torproject.org authored 18 years ago	`59) <a href="submit.html">How to Submit</a>`
Make website valid xhtml (gui) Thomas Sjögren authored 18 years ago	`60) <a href="criteria.html">Judging & Timeline</a>`
gui contest pages le@svn.torproject.org authored 18 years ago	`61) <a href="technotes.html">Technical Notes</a>`
call 'legal notes' licensin... Roger Dingledine authored 18 years ago	`62) <a href="legal.html">Licensing</a>`
gui contest pages le@svn.torproject.org authored 18 years ago	`63) <h1> </h1> 64) <a class="wiki" href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/ContestFAQ">Wiki/FAQ</a> 65) </div> 66) 67) <div class="curvebottomleft"> 68) <div class="curvebottomright"> 69)   70) </div> 71) </div> 72) 73) </div> 74) </div> 75)`
add a little 'news' section... Roger Dingledine authored 18 years ago	`76) <h2>News:</h2>`
gui contest pages le@svn.torproject.org authored 18 years ago	`77)`
point to the submissions fr... Roger Dingledine authored 18 years ago	`78) <p>The <a 79) href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/ContestEntries">phase 80) one submissions</a> are in! Our judges are starting to review them now.</p> 81)`
change the gui competition... Roger Dingledine authored 18 years ago	`82) <p>Due to volume of interest, we've decided to push back the deadlines 83) for the GUI competition by 4 weeks: so the first deadline is Nov 30 2005, 84) and the second deadline is Feb 28 2006.</p> 85)`
add a little 'news' section... Roger Dingledine authored 18 years ago	`86) <p> 87) We're excited to have just added <a href="criteria.html">Edward Tufte 88) and Bruce Schneier</a> to our already impressive list of judges. And don't 89) forget the free T-shirt for every submission! 90) </p> 91) 92) <h2>Tor: GUI Competition Overview</h2>`
gui contest pages le@svn.torproject.org authored 18 years ago	`93) 94) <p> 95) Tor is a decentralized network of computers on the Internet that increases 96) privacy in Web browsing, instant messaging, and other applications. We 97) estimate there are some 50,000 Tor users currently, routing their traffic`
tweak the gui index page Roger Dingledine authored 18 years ago	`98) through about 250 volunteer Tor servers on six continents. However, Tor's`
gui contest pages le@svn.torproject.org authored 18 years ago	`99) current user interface approach — running as a service in the background 100) — does a poor job of communicating network status and security levels 101) to the user. 102) </p> 103) 104) <p> 105) The Tor project, affiliated with the 106) <a href="http://www.eff.org/">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a>, is`
change the gui competition... Roger Dingledine authored 18 years ago	`107) running a <b>GUI competition</b> to develop a vision of how Tor can`
gui contest pages le@svn.torproject.org authored 18 years ago	`108) work in a user's everyday anonymous browsing experience. Some of the 109) challenges include how to make alerts and error conditions visible on 110) screen; how to let the user configure Tor to use or avoid certain routes 111) or nodes; how to learn about the current state of a Tor connection, 112) including which servers it uses; and how to find out whether (and which) 113) applications are using Tor safely. 114) </p>`
Make website valid xhtml (gui) Thomas Sjögren authored 18 years ago	`115) <br />`
gui contest pages le@svn.torproject.org authored 18 years ago	`116) 117) <h2>Goals</h2>`
our front gui page doesn't... Roger Dingledine authored 18 years ago	`118) <p>Submitters will produce either sketches for a suggested user interface, 119) or a work of <a`
gui contest pages le@svn.torproject.org authored 18 years ago	`120) href="http://www.opensource.org/">Open Source Software</a>`
tweak the gui index page Roger Dingledine authored 18 years ago	`121) that will provide a user interface to the Tor system by way of the`
gui contest pages le@svn.torproject.org authored 18 years ago	`122) <a href="/cvs/control/doc/howto.txt">Tor Controller Protocol</a>.</p> 123) 124) <p>We are looking for a vision of how Tor can work in a user's everyday 125) anonymous browsing experience.</p> 126) 127) <p>Entries will:</p> 128) <ul> 129) <li>Allow the user to fully configure Tor rather than manually searching 130) for and opening text files.</li> 131) <li>Let users learn about the current state of their Tor connection`
tweak the gui index page Roger Dingledine authored 18 years ago	`132) (for example, how well the current Tor connection is working), 133) and find out whether any of their applications are using it.</li>`
gui contest pages le@svn.torproject.org authored 18 years ago	134) <li>Make alerts and error conditions visible to the user.</li> 135) <li>Run on at least one of Windows, Linux, and OS X, on a 136) not-unusually-configured consumer-level machine.</li> 137) </ul> 138) 139) <p>In addition, they may:</p> 140) <ul> 141) <li>Provide detailed information about which 142) applications, ports, or packets are (or are not!) passing through Tor, 143) including accounting for both Tor- and non-Tor traffic.</li> 144) <li>Provide 145) additional statistics about the Tor connection.</li> 146) <li>Give users more control over how their Tor behaves at certain times 147) of day or in other contexts (like operating as a server).</li> 148) </ul> 149) 150) <p>Some examples of useful features include:</p> 151) <ul> 152) <li>How much bandwidth is Tor using? How does this compare 153) to the overall network traffic to/from the computer?</li> 154) <li>Is there network traffic from ports or applications that the user 155) intended to be anonymized?</li> 156) <li>What Tor servers does the user know about on the network? Where are 157) they? How available are they?</li> 158) <li>An interface for displaying or controlling Tor paths: 159) "show me the network from Africa by way of Asia". Think of the global 160) satellite map from the movie <i>Sneakers</i>.</li> 161) <li>Configure other running applications to use Tor (for example, 162) by modifying or working through the network stack, and/or by altering 163) application configurations).</li> 164) <li>Provide an elegant installer for Tor, your GUI submission, and 165) other supporting applications.</li> 166) <li>Make your GUI manage the Tor process and other supporting applications 167) -- start them, stop them, realize when they've died.</li> 168) <li>Provide meaningful defaults for a good Tor experience.</li> 169) <li>Provide application-level anonymity -- that is, not just paying 170) attention to transport anonymity on the level of Tor, but also paying 171) attention to the anonymity of the http headers, cookies, etc.</li> 172) <li>Let the user specify different Tor config option sets depending on 173) time of day (e.g. daytime vs. nighttime).</li> 174) <li>Provide useful controller functions for Tor servers too -- 175) for example, walk the user through recommended bandwidth configurations 176) and exit policies.</li> 177) <li>Have a "minimized view" of your GUI for common use, and then a more 178) detailed view or set of windows when the user wants more detail.</li> 179) <li>Provide a button or some automatically updating interface to let 180) the user learn whether Tor is working currently, perhaps by accessing an 181) external what's-my-IP site and seeing if it thinks you're a Tor server; 182) and give useful messages and recommendations if it doesn't seem to 183) be working.</li> 184) <li>Provide a way to automatically configure local firewalls (ipchains, 185) Windows firewalls, etc) to let Tor traffic out (and in, for Tor 186) servers). As a bonus, configure it to prevent non-Tor traffic from 187) leaving (and notify when it tries).</li> 188) </ul> 189)
change the gui competition... Roger Dingledine authored 18 years ago	`190) <p>We're interested to see submissions that don't achieve all of the 191) above goals -- if it's useful to Tor or Tor users in any way, please 192) submit it!</p> 193)`