Re: [tor-dev] Interested in contributing to Tor-Dev through GSoC

2013-03-10 Thread Damian Johnson
> My hesitation to begin with anything at all was that I was not sure > to go directly into resolving bugs, I thought maybe prior knowledge of > networking & protocols (in-depth) was very necessary. Nope. The best approach is to just jump right in and try to make something better. We're more than

Re: [tor-dev] Interested in contributing to Tor-Dev through GSoC

2013-03-10 Thread Ashish Patil
Thanks 'atagar'! I've already been through the links that you gave me... My hesitation to begin with anything at all was that I was not sure to go directly into resolving bugs, I thought maybe prior knowledge of networking & protocols (in-depth) was very necessary. But now that I think of it, this

Re: [tor-dev] Interested in contributing to Tor-Dev through GSoC

2013-03-10 Thread Damian Johnson
> Damian, do you think we could add a prominent sentence or two to our > gsoc page to clarify this point? Good idea. Done... https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-commits/2013-March/053531.html ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-dev] Interested in contributing to Tor-Dev through GSoC

2013-03-10 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Damian Johnson wrote: >> Hi Ashish, glad you want to get involved with Tor for GSoC! > > We should be very clear to mention this: > > The organizations participating in 2013 GSoC have NOT been announced > ye

Re: [tor-dev] Interested in contributing to Tor-Dev through GSoC

2013-03-10 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Damian Johnson wrote: > Hi Ashish, glad you want to get involved with Tor for GSoC! We should be very clear to mention this: The organizations participating in 2013 GSoC have NOT been announced yet. While we don't think we've done anything that would make Google

Re: [tor-dev] Interested in contributing to Tor-Dev through GSoC

2013-03-10 Thread Damian Johnson
Hi Ashish, glad you want to get involved with Tor for GSoC! The first step would be to look over the projects that you're interested in, and try to make a small contribution or two. George is the maintainer of Obfsproxy (asn on irc) and I'm the maintainer of Stem (atagar on irc). Here's some links

[tor-dev] Interested in contributing to Tor-Dev through GSoC

2013-03-10 Thread Ashish Patil
Hello! I am a newbie & very eager to contribute to Tor development. I have been using tor since a year and a half & I have been looking around the website & the source codes since past month. The upcoming GSoC has provided a very nice opportunity for me contribute to whatever extent I can. I have