Just putting it out there that while I'm no front end web developer by any
means, I would be willing to lend some time to work on some photos and
videos in support of the various GP products.

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Nathan of Guardian <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016, at 10:40 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > I would add:
> >
> >   auditing of and control over network usage and power usage
>
> Yes, agreed. I think I meant that through this point:
>
> - Overall improved configuration / settings UI to make tuning Orbot a
> better, simpler experience... this is an expansion of the new exit
> country selector in Orbot v15.1, but also includes managing things like
> network usage and so on.
>
> > I haven't dug into this enough to actually have a complaint, but I'd
> > like to see some improved self-auditing of how much network is used, and
> > docs about how orbot decides to create circuits and when it tears them
> > down (based on usage).  I would hope that after some time with no client
> > use, it goes into a sort of background sleep mode where it uses zero
> > resources, or at least that should be default.  (I realize there is a
> > case to burn more resources to have circuits ready.)
>
> Overall, we've been lucky that Tor is as well-behaved as it is, with the
> default configuration. If there is no usage, Tor will tear down
> circuits, and idle in the background. However, in some cases, there is
> still too much data usage overall, especially for people on
> pay-as-you-go plans.
>
> We can log more data and build a better user interface for viewing and
> exporting that data in the app itself.
>
> > Maybe this all works.  But a big complaint of mine about the android
> > world (or perhaps the mobile world) is that documentation and specs
> > aren't necessary.  Particularly for privacy apps, I think it's necesary
> > to have a specification of what the app will do, so that it can be
> > audited against that specification.   I can't find any docs or specs
> > from:
> >
> >   https://guardianproject.info/apps/orbot
>
> Yes, that isn't the best page in the world. We are in severe need of a
> person just focused on our public facing content.
>
> There is a tiny bit more content here of the technical sort:
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/orbot.git
> but I completely agree that spending time writing a clear spec,
> especially as we lay out this new roadmap, makes a great deal of sense.
>
> Thanks for the thoughts.
>
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