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     <a href="<page getinvolved/open-positions>">Open Positions</a>

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-    <h2>Tor: Open Positions</h2>

+

+<h1>Tor: Open Positions</h1>

 <hr />

 <p>Tor is hiring!  We're looking for self-motivated individuals who are

-    able to work independently and want to help make Tor better.

-    </p>

+able to work independently and want to help make Tor better.  These are

+short-term contract positions ranging from one to three months.</p>

 <p>In particular, we're looking for a few people:</p>

 <ul>

-    <li><a href="#sysdev">Systems Developer</a></li>

+<li><a href="#vidaliadev">Vidalia Developer</a></li>

 <li><a href="#windowsdev">Microsoft Windows Developer</a></li>

 </ul>

@@ -34,108 +35,66 @@

 network ever.</li>

 </ul>

-    <p>

-    We want you to have good communication and writing skills (in particular,

+<p>We want you to have good communication and writing skills (in particular,

 you should know how to keep other project members informed of your

 progress), and we want you to know how to figure out what needs doing and

 then take the initiative to do it. Most project members play more than

-    one role, so combination developer/activist are very welcome.

-    </p>

+one role, so combination developer/activist are very welcome.</p>

-    <a id="sysdev"></a>

-    <h3><a class="anchor" href="#sysdev">Systems Developer</a></h3>

-    <ul>

-    <li><strong>New Secure Updater Features</strong>:

-    <br />

-    Additional capabilities are needed for assisted updates of all the Tor

-    related software for Windows and other operating systems. Some of the

-    features to consider include:

-    <ol>

-    <li> Integration of the <a

-    href="http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/MeTooCrypto">MeTooCrypto

-    Python library</a> for authenticated HTTPS downloads.</li>

-    <li> Adding a level of indirection between the timestamp signatures

-    and the package files included in an update. See the "<a

-    href="http://archives.seul.org/or/dev/Dec-2008/msg00010.html">Thandy

-    attacks / suggestions</a>" thread on or-dev.</li>

-    <li> Support locale specific installation and configuration of assisted

-    updates based on preference, host, or user account language settings.

-    Familiarity with Windows codepages, unicode, and other character sets

-    is helpful in addition to general win32 and posix API experience and

-    Python proficiency.</li>

-    </ol>

-    </li>

+<p>The best way to get noticed as a good developer is to join the community

+and start helping out. Smart code commits and ideas are welcome anytime.

+We have a great core group of developers working on the Tor software

+itself as well as supporting software like Vidalia, Torbutton, etc. All

+of our contractors came through volunteering first.</p>

-    <li><strong>Extend the Tor Secure Auto-Update Framework</strong>:

-    <p>We've developed a secure auto-update framework, codenamed <a

-    href="http://gitweb.torproject.org/thandy/thandy.git/tree">Thandy</a>.  It

-    needs some design work to be finished, some security decisions to be

-    made, and then code written to actually get the software and

-    infrastructure running.  The primary goal is to get this working on

-    Microsoft Windows operating systems.  Secondary goal is to have this

-    work with Apple OS X.  The <a

-    href="http://gitweb.torproject.org/thandy/thandy.git/blob/HEAD:/TODO">TODO</a>

-    file explains more of the goals.</p>

-    <p>A person undertaking this project should have good C/C++ development

-    experience. Previous experience with Qt is helpful, but not required. One

-    should also have a good understanding of common security

-    practices, such as package signature verification. Good writing ability

-    is also important for this project, since a vital step of the project

-    will be producing a design document to review and discuss

-    with others prior to implementation.</p>

-    </li>

+<a id="vidaliadev"></a>

+<h3><a class="anchor" href="#vidaliadev">Vidalia Developer</a></h3>

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

+in C++ using the Qt libraries.  It is used by millions of people

+successfully.  Our current developer is a volunteer and otherwise

+occupied with finishing his PhD.  We're looking for someone who knows

+C++, Qt, and would like to kickstart development on the next generation

+of Vidalia.  Some suggested next steps involve:</p>

+<ul>

+<li>Implementing the KDE Marble interface into Vidalia for better and

+more accurate mappings of relays to countries.  Plus, it just looks

+cool.</li>

+<li>Implementing the ability to click a country and instruct Tor to

+either start or end circuits in that country.</li>

+<li>Work on bug fixes and enhancements as suggested by users.</li>

+<li>Give Vidalia the ability to control the http proxy included, to

+start, stop, and possibly configure either privoxy, polipo, or an http

+shim we ship in the combined bundles of tor, vidalia, and polipo.</li>

+<li>Possibly re-design the Vidalia interface to have different modes for

+different levels of user sophistication.  Many users see a button or a

+setting and feel they have to change it.  The defaults are set to ensure

+users are sufficiently anonymous.  How can we better hide the complexity

+of Tor configurations?</li>

 </ul>

 <a id="windowsdev"></a>

 <h3><a class="anchor" href="#windowsdev">Microsoft Windows Developer</a></h3>

-    This person needs to be very familiar with Windows at a system and

-    network level.  We're looking or someone to do two projects:

+<p>This person needs to be very familiar with Windows at a system and

+network level.  We're looking or someone to help make Tor on Windows

+more compatible and work more reliably as a relay.

+There are a number of projects relating to Windows that current need a

+skilled developer:</p>

 <ul>

-    <li><strong>Improving Polipo on Windows</strong>:

-    <p>Help port <a

-    href="http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/">Polipo</a>

-    to Windows. Example topics to tackle include: 

-    <ol>

-    <li> the ability to asynchronously query name servers, find the system

-    nameservers, and manage netbios and dns queries.</li>

-    <li> manage events and buffers natively (i.e. in Unix-like OSes, Polipo

-    defaults to 25% of ram, in Windows it's whatever the config

-    specifies).</li>

-    <li> some sort of GUI config and reporting tool, bonus if it has a

-    systray icon with right clickable menu options. Double bonus if it's

-    cross-platform compatible.</li>

-    <li> allow the software to use the Windows Registry and handle proper

-    Windows directory locations, such as "C:\Program Files\Polipo"</li>

-    </ol>

-    </p>

-    </li>

-    

-    <li><strong>Intermediate Level Network Device Driver</strong>:

-    <br />

-    The WinPCAP device driver used by Tor VM for bridged networking does

-    not support a number of wireless and non-Ethernet network adapters.

-    Implementation of a intermediate level network device driver for win32

-    and 64bit would provide a way to intercept and route traffic over such

-    networks. This project will require knowledge of and experience with

-    Windows kernel device driver development and testing. Familiarity with

-    Winsock and Qemu would also be helpful.

-    </li>

+<li>Develop a Tor network shim to redirect all traffic through Tor.

+OpenVPN has a network layer device for Windows that redirects traffic

+through the OpenVPN connection.  Is this the model Tor should be using?

+Or is there something else that may work better?</li>

+<li>Tor relays under non-server editions of Windows run into WSAENOBUFS

+problems after a short while.  This problem is described in detail in <a

+href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/98">bug ticket

+98</a>.  So far, there are no solutions. We think libevent 2.0 with its

+bufferevents code will help solve the problem.</li>

 </ul>

-    <p>

-    The best way to get noticed as a good developer is to join the community

-    and start helping out. We have a great core group of developers working

-    on the Tor software itself as well as supporting software like Vidalia,

-    Torbutton, etc.

-    </p>

-    

-    <p>

-    Periodically we get new funding to work on more development

+<p>Periodically we get new funding to work on more development

 projects.  Your goal should be to get into the list of <a href="<page

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

-    funding arrives. We're particularly looking for Qt developers and

-    people to help maintain <a href="<page projects/vidalia>">Vidalia</a>.

-    </p>

+people>#Core">core project members</a> so we think of you when new

+funding arrives.</p>

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