On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 07:02:32PM -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: > > Step 2) Wait for Tor Project to do the technical work. > > There could be at least four reasons: > > 1) they don't believe it. > They're just throwing ideas at the wall, to see who will do free work > for them. They wouldn't spend a dime of their own money to do it.
I don't know who "they" are, but the only way to cook up a bunch of throwaway Tor nodes and distribute them for creative installation is someone who has the spare cash to buy a few hundred to thousand pieces of hardware, and give them away. In the case of Sheeva, that's some 10 kUSD for a 1000 units (probably less due to mass rebate). I don't have such money, but since it was my idea, and Ubuntu already supports the Sheeva I'm willing to plug an USB drive and set up a self hosting environment to build a Tor package or a system image based on Ubuntu if someone sends me a Sheevaplug. However, it would be probably trivial to do that for a seasoned Tor developer, and it's also an issue of trust. Would you accept system images from random strangers? > 2) lack of capital > They think it's a good idea, but don't have the funds to > allocate/acquire the manpower to get it done. If only they were better > at raising money they'd get it done. > Summer of Code, perhaps other outlets for these folks? > > 3) ideological inefficiency > They think it's a tor feature, Tor Project alone should do it, even if > they have the capital and believe the business case. I trust in > individual self-interest too much to believe this is real. > > 4) Confusion > They'd do it themselves but it's not obvious what they need to do. > Being opaque, they work on other things first. > I suspect this is possible, so I started a wiki page that could, in a > future form, be useful to this class: > https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/EmbeddedTips That is an excellent idea. > It would be great if those with experience could add info/links here, > especially architectural elements with broad commonality among potential > targets. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE