GSoC 2012 Projects

We're pleased to announce that the Tor Project and Tails are hosting students this year as part of Google Summer of Code. Out of the 26 applications to us we were able to take on six fantastic students:
 

• Ravi Padmala - Introduction
  Project: Stem Improvements and Arm port
  Mentor: Damian / Sathyanarayanan
   
• Feroze Naina - Introduction
  Project: Implementing Hidden Service Configuration
  Mentor: Tomás / Sebastian
   
• Michele Orrù - Introduction
  Project: Anonymous Python Application Framework
  Mentor: Arturo / George
   
• Julien Voisin - Introduction
  Project: Tails Server
  Mentor: intrigeri, anonym
   
• Brandon Wiley
  Project: Pluggable Transports in Python
  Mentor: George / Nick
   
• vmon
  Project: Stegotorus
  Mentor: Zack Weinberg / Steven / Roger
   

Projects officially begin on May 21st. 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