Comment some of the not-so-good-anymore GSoC coding projects out, and move two of them to another section. Now we have, uhm, 8 ideas left.
Karsten Loesing

Karsten Loesing commited on 2009-03-09 03:46:18
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 <b>Tor Node Scanner improvements</b>
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 the Directory Authorities, but a communication channel for this
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 <b>Help track the overall Tor Network status</b>
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 Status wish list</a>.
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 <b>Better Debian/Ubuntu Packaging for Tor+Vidalia</b>
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 experience with Qt is helpful, but not required.
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 <b>Improving Tor's ability to resist censorship</b>
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 then trading off censorship resistance with usability and robustness.
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 <b>Tor/Polipo/Vidalia Auto-Update Framework</b>
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 will be producing a design document to review and discuss
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 <b>An Improved and More Usable Network Map in Vidalia</b>
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 <b>Tor Controller Status Event Interface</b>
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 design/Photoshop fu, since we might want/need some shiny new icons too.
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 <b>Improvements on our active browser configuration tester</b> -
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 <a href="https://check.torproject.org/">https://check.torproject.org/</a>
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 href="<svnsandbox>doc/spec/proposals/131-verify-tor-usage.txt">proposal
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 <b>Improvements on our DNS Exit List service</b> -
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 <a href="http://exitlist.torproject.org/">http://exitlist.torproject.org/</a>
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 <b>Testing integration of Tor with web browsers for our end users</b>
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 <b>Tuneup Tor!</b>
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 <b>Porting Polipo to Windows</b>
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+Tor Works" pictures on the <a href="<page overview>">overview page</a>
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+from source, so we can translate them as UTF-8 text rather than edit
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+them by hand with Gimp. We might want to
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+integrate this as an wml file so translations are easy and images are
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+generated in multiple languages whenever we build the website.</li>
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