gsoc

The EFF and The Tor Project announce the final selection of students for the 2008 Google Summer of Code.

We're happy to welcome:

• Aleksei Gorny working on Tor exit scanner improvements
• Camilo Viecco working on Providing Blossom functionality to Vidalia
• Domenik Bork working on Configuration of Hidden Services with User Authorization in Vidalia
• Sebastian Hahn working on A networking application to automatically carry out tests for Tor
• Simon Johansson working on a Translation Wiki
• Christian Wilms working on Performance Enhancing Measures for Tor Hidden Services
• Fallon Chen working on Improving Tor Path Selection

There were a total of 40 applications for 7 slots this year. Congratulations to Aleksei, Camilo, Domenik, Sebastian, Simon, Christian, and Fallon for their excellent applications and subsequent selection. We look forward to releasing their completed projects as functionality for the benefit of the Tor user community.

Once again, with sponsorship from the amazing folks at the EFF, the Tor Project has been accepted as a mentoring organization in Google's Summer of Code. This program funds students to work on open source and free software projects over the summer, and provides organizations like ours with a chance to work with great and enthusiastic coders from around the world.

Many thanks first to Google for the opportunity, and to EFF for their continuing help and support. We'd also like to thanks everyone in the Tor community who agreed to help mentor students with us this summer, especially those who contributed to our project ideas list.

If you're a student interested in working with the Tor Project under the Google Summer of Code program this year, please check out Google's FAQ for the program, and the Tor Project's GSoC 2008 page for more information. If you have any questions that aren't answered there, just stop by our IRC channel and ask. We look forward to seeing you there!

Also, be sure to check out the other great organizations who will be mentoring students this year.