What is Tails? ============== **T**he **A**mnesic **I**ncognito **L**ive **S**ystem 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
- #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](http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=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 - - #tails on irc.oftc.net, port 6697 Slides available at: