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8) <h2>Tor: Google Summer of Code 2008</h2>
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10) 
11) <p>
12) Last year in 2007, The Tor Project in collaboration with <a
13) href="https://www.eff.org/">The Electronic Frontier Foundation</a>
14) successfully took part in <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/">Google
15) Summer of Code 2007</a>. In total we had four students as full-time
16) developers for the summer of 2007.
17) </p>
18) 
19) <p>
20) Google has announced that there will also be a <a
21) href="http://code.google.com/soc/">Google Summer of Code 2008</a>,

22) and we have applied. A list of accepted mentoring

23) organizations will be published by Google on March 17. In the meantime,
24) this page contains some information for interested students in hopes
25) that our application will be accepted.
26) </p>
27) 
28) <p>
29) The deadline for your application is <b>March 31, 2008</b> at 5pm
30) Pacific time.
31) </p>
32) 
33) <p>
34) You must be self-motivated and able to work independently. We have
35) a thriving community of interested developers on the IRC channel and
36) mailing lists, and we're eager to work with you, brainstorm about design,
37) and so on, but you need to be able to manage your own time, and you
38) need to already be familiar with how free software development on the

39) Internet works. In addition to hoping to get some more development work
40) done on Tor and related applications, Google and Tor are most interested
41) in getting students involved in the project in a way that keeps them
42) involved after the summer too. As such, we will give priority to students
43) who have demonstrated continued interest and responsiveness.

44) </p>
45) 
46) <p>
47) Working on Tor is rewarding because:
48) </p>
49) 
50) <ul>
51) <li>You can work your own hours in your own locations. As long as you
52) get the job done, we don't care about the process.</li>
53) <li>We only write free (open source) software. The tools you make won't
54) be locked down or rot on a shelf.</li>
55) <li>You will work with a world-class team of anonymity experts and
56) developers on what is already the largest and most active strong anonymity
57) network ever.</li>
58) <li>The work you do could contribute to academic publications --
59) Tor development raises many open questions and interesting problems
60) in the field of <a href="http://freehaven.net/anonbib/">anonymity
61) systems</a>.</li>
62) </ul>
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66) <p>
67) Please use the following template for your application, to make sure you
68) provide enough information for us to evaluate you and your proposal.
69) </p>
70) 
71) <ol>
72) 
73) <li>What project would you like to work on? Use
74) <a href="<page volunteer>#Projects">this list</a>
75) for ideas or make up your own. Your proposal should include high-level
76) descriptions of what you're going to do, with more details about the
77) parts you expect to be tricky. Your proposal should also try to break
78) down the project into tasks of a fairly fine granularity, and convince
79) us you have a plan for finishing it.</li>
80) 
81) <li>Point us to a code sample: something good and clean to demonstrate
82) that you know what you're doing, ideally from an existing project.</li>
83) 
84) <li>Why do you want to work with The Tor Project in particular?</li>
85) 
86) <li>Tell us about your experiences in free software development
87) environments. We especially want to hear examples of how you have
88) collaborated with others rather than just working on a project by
89) yourself.</li>
90) 
91) <li>Will you be working full-time on the project for the summer, or will
92) you have other commitments too (a second job, classes, etc)? If you won't
93) be available full-time, please explain, and list timing if you know them
94) for other major deadlines (e.g. exams). Having other activities isn't

95) a deal-breaker, but we don't want to be surprised.</li>