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<h2>Tor: Google Summer of Code 2012</h2>
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In the last five years, The Tor Project in collaboration with <a
href="https://www.eff.org/">The Electronic Frontier Foundation</a>
successfully took part in
<a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2007/eff/about.html">Google Summer of Code
2007</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/eff/about.html">2008</a>,
<a
href="http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/home/google/gsoc2009/eff">2009</a>,
<a href="<blog>tor-google-summer-code-2010">2010</a>, and <a
href="https://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/program/home/google/gsoc2011">2011</a>.
In total we had 27 students as full-time developers for the summers of 2007 to
2011. We have been accepted as a mentoring organization for <a
href="https://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/program/home/google/gsoc2012">Google
Summer of Code 2012</a>!
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The <a
href="https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2012">timeline</a>
for GSoC 2012 is available.
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You must be self-motivated and able to work independently. We have
a thriving community of interested developers on the IRC channel and
mailing lists, and we're eager to work with you, brainstorm about design,
and so on, but you need to be able to manage your own time, and you
need to already be somewhat familiar with how free software development on the
Internet works.
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Working on Tor is rewarding because:
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<li>You can work your own hours in your own locations. As long as you