Hi, all! The Tor hackathon at the gnu30 event went fairly well, I think. Two people sent me small built/test patches which I've merged into the Tor mainline, and a few more have promised me test improvements and other patches. I also met a lot of cool hackers, and talked with people from other free software projects. About a half dozen people approached me asking how to get Tor people to speak for conferences and student groups; I told them about the appropriate mailing lists. I pair-programmed a bunch of ed25519 code, and talked about cryptography with a lot of people. I hope we'll be seeing more of some of the folks I talked to on our mailing lists and IRC channels soon.
One thing I really enjoyed was participating in other group's hackathons. I reported a a few possible security holes in a couple of projects, asked questions about how to get code merged into others, and hassled people who weren't signing their packages. I think for the next hackathon we organize ourselves, we should invite some other non-Tor free software project; cross-pollinating ideas and areas of expertise was pretty valuable. If I remember correctly, somebody said that the FSF is new to hosting hackathon-style events. But I have a pretty hard time believing that, given how smoothly everything went. best wishes, -- Nick Mathewson -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk