{"id":466604,"date":"2010-03-24T04:06:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T08:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"9962 at http:\/\/www.eff.org"},"modified":"2010-03-24T04:06:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T08:06:04","slug":"work-with-eff-and-tor-for-googles-summer-of-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/466604","title":{"rendered":"Work With EFF and Tor for Google&#8217;s Summer of Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interested in working with EFF or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.torproject.org\/\">Tor<\/a>, and getting paid for it by Google? If you are a student and a coder, then we have good news for you: A few of our projects have been accepted for <a href=\"http:\/\/socghop.appspot.com\/gsoc\/program\/home\/google\/gsoc2010\">Google&#8217;s Summer Of Code 2010<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>At EFF, there are three projects we&#8217;re focused on: First, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tosback.org\/about.php\">TOSBack<\/a>, which tracks changes to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/issues\/terms-of-abuse\">terms of service<\/a> of the Internet&#8217;s most popular websites. Secondly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/code\/tea\">OurVoteLive<\/a>, which tracks problems in elections with polling places and voting machines across the US. Third, you could help us implement improvements to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/testyourisp\/switzerland\">Switzerland<\/a>, a passive IP-layer network neutrality testing system. You can read more about our possible summer projects <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/gsoc2010\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, our friends and colleagues at the Tor project have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.torproject.org\/gsoc.html.en#Ideas\">dozens of ideas<\/a> for improving their software, which allows users to route around Internet censorship and surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>If those sound interesting, first check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/socghop.appspot.com\/document\/show\/gsoc_program\/google\/gsoc2010\/faqs\">Summer Of Code FAQ<\/a> to make sure you&#8217;re eligible to participate. Introduce yourself to us &mdash; email <a href=\"mailto:soc@eff.org\">soc@eff.org<\/a> or visit the <a href=\"irc:\/\/irc.oftc.net\/tor\/\">#tor IRC channel<\/a>. Then, write down your project idea using our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.torproject.org\/gsoc#Template\">template<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/socghop.appspot.com\/document\/show\/gsoc_program\/google\/gsoc2010\/faqs#student_apply\">submit your application<\/a> to Google. <\/p>\n<p><b>Correction, March 26:<\/b> I originally wrote that the deadline for applications is March 29. This was <a href=\"http:\/\/socghop.appspot.com\/document\/show\/gsoc_program\/google\/gsoc2010\/faqs#timeline\">incorrect<\/a>. Students can begin submitting applications on March 29, and the deadline is April 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interested in working with EFF or Tor, and getting paid for it by Google? If you are a student and a coder, then we have good news for you: A few of our projects have been accepted for Google&#8217;s Summer Of Code 2010. At EFF, there are three projects we&#8217;re focused on: First, TOSBack, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}