GSoC 2011 Projects

We're pleased to announce that the Tor Project, Tails, and Guardian are hosting students this year as part of Google Summer of Code. Out of the 31 applications to us we were able to take on six fantastic students:
 

• Julien Voisin - Introduction
  Project: Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit
  Mentor: Mike Perry
   
• George Kadianakis - Introduction
  Project: Pluggable transports
  Mentor: Nick Mathewson
   
• Sathya Gunasekaran - Introduction
  Project: Orbot + ORLib
  Mentor: Nathan Freitas
   
• Kamran Khan - Introduction
  Project: GTK+ Frontend and Client Mode Improvements for arm
  Mentor: Damian Johnson
   
• Max - Introduction
  Project: Custom GDM3 startup menu, aka. tails-greeter
  Mentor: intrigeri
   
• Brandon Wiley
  Project: Blocking-resistant Transport Evaluation Framework
  Mentor: Thomas Benjamin
   

Projects officially begin on May 23rd. We're thrilled to have them with us, and have our fingers crossed that they'll stay afterward to become core developers.
 
Many thanks to Google for having the program again this year! -Damian