HFOSS Summer 2010 project goes live
Feb. 4, 2011 by ndanner
In Summer 2011, Computer Science students Jeff Ruberg ’12, Michael Vitale ’11, and Katie Wagner ’12 participated in the Humanitarian Fee and Open Source Software Project Summer internship program. For their project, they worked on software that is part of the Tor network. Tor is software that allows users to browse the web anonymously, and is used by human rights workers, individuals in repressive regimes, and people who just don’t want corporations tracking their on-line movements. It is implemented as a world-wide network of “relays” that are run by volunteers on anything ranging from academic servers to home computers. Jeff, Michael, and Katie completely re-designed and re-implemented Tor Weather, an application that allows Tor relay operators to sign up to be notified of important events on their relays. Their software has now gone live, and is an important component of the Tor Project. Congratulations to the three of you on a job well-done and on writing software that is helping to make a difference in people’s lives!
