What is Tails?

The Amnesic Incognito Live System

https://tails.boum.org/

Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity, and helps you to:

• use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship;
• all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the Tor network;
• leave no trace on the computer you are using unless you ask it explicitly;
• use state-of-the-art cryptographic tools to encrypt your files, emails and instant messaging.

https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/

Challenges

• Release every 6 weeks
• Mostly volunteers
• Around 7000 boots a day, double every 6 months
• Around 2000 commits by +10 people in the last 6 months
• Very scarse human-ressources

Roadmap

• This winter
  • Incremental upgrades
  • MAC spoofing
• Tails 1.0, April 15
  • Better bridges support
• Tails 1.1, May 27: Tails Wheezy
  • GNOME 3
• Tails 2.0: sustainability and maintainability
  • UEFI, Mac
  • Tails Greeter
  • Same day security upgrades (automated builds and tests)
  • Mitigate the effects of security issues (hardening and sandboxing)

Translators

Translators can allow more people around the world to use Tails.

• Translate programs included in Tails [upstream]
• Translate our custom programs through Transifex
• Rescue orphan translations of the website [Git]
  • German (5%)
  • Spanish (10%)

https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/translate/

Writers

Good writers can make Tails accessible to more people.

• #6376: Migrate the content of the forum to the FAQ
• #6533: Mention I2P in About page
• #6311: Document how to get the source code of packages shipped in Tails
• #5816: Document what kind of anonymity Tails provides

https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/documentation/

Testing

• Test MAC spoofing
  https://tails.boum.org/news/spoof-mac/
• #5390: Test hardware requirements on Wheezy
• #6528: Test new Vagrant stuff on Wheezy
• #6223: Test Linphone 3.5.1 or newer with onioncat

Web & Graphic Design

Designers can make Tails easier to use and more appealing.

• #6323: Improve the CSS of the boxed titles
• #6165: Improve visually the Contribute section
• #5797: Create a logo for Tails
• Design outreach material (flyer, stickers, etc.)

https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/website/

https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/graphics/

User Interface

• Early testing of new features (eg. MAC spoofing)
• Help us redesign Tails Greeter
• #6417: Evaluate Tails Greeter revamp proposals

https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/user_interface/

GNOME Hacking

Improve Tails Greeter and migration to GNOME3.

• #5917: Warn when caps-lock in ON [Tails Greeter] [Python]
• #5594: Better administration password UI [Tails Greeter] [Python]
• #5355: Wheezy: add a quick shutdown button back
• #6342: Update Windows camouflage for GNOME3

Debian Hacking

Maintain backports and package our custom programs.

• #6350: Prepare a live-build configuration that builds a Sid desktop image
• #6507: Package our OpenPGP applet for Debian
• #6148: Help get Torbirdy into Debian
• Help maintain:
  • ruby-libvirt [Debian#733413]
• Maintain backports for Wheezy:
  • poedit
  • Pidgin
  • i18nspector
  • monkeysign
  • Xorg stack

Persistence

• #5881: Add reboot button to persistence setup assistant [Perl]
• #6485: Support multiple persistent paths per preset [Perl]
• #6403: Implement liferea persistence preset in Tails Wheezy [Perl]
• #5929: Create encrypted TailsData by default [Tails Installer] [Python]

Automation and Infrastructure

Puppet, Debian, and Cucumber (Ruby).

• #6295: Evaluate consequences of importing large amounts of packages into reprepro
• #6303: Adapt our APT repository infrastructure to be able to handle tons of packages [reprepo, shell]
• #5894: APT repository: notify incoming [with and without Puppet]
• #6547: Puppet module to manage kgb-bot [easy Puppet]
• #6270: Publish our Jenkins read-only on the web

https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/automated_builds_and_tests/

Donate

• Bitcoins only for the moment
  Bitcoin address: 1BvBMSEYstWetqTFn5Au4m4GFg7xJaNVN2
• Through torserver.net in the future…

https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/donate/

Next steps

• Join our next collective working session:
  2014-01-04, 9am to 1pm UTC / 10am to 2pm CET
• Next monthly meeting:
  2014-01-09, 9pm UTC / 10pm CET

#tails-dev on irc.oftc.net, port 6697

Contact

• At 30C3
  • NoisySquare
• On the Internet
  • tails-dev@boum.org, public development list
  • tails@boum.org, private matters
  • https://tails.boum.org/contribute#talk
  • #tails on irc.oftc.net, port 6697

Slides available at:
https://tails.boum.org/promote/slides/2013-12-29_-_Tails_needs_your_help.shtml