[OTR-dev] What about an OTR org.?

[David Goulet]

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Hi everyone,

I apologize if this has been already discuss in older threads that I'm
not aware.

I had this yet _crazy_ idea when reading for the last 6 months every
threads and discussions about OTR and different IMs using it, new
ideas and also not forgetting the Cryptocat threadS :).

So here goes. I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to try to
create an OTR foundation or non profit organization or whatever we can
think of (OTR project à la Tor) that would basically regroup libotr (C
library), IM plugins, and more stuff like an OTR Java library, Python
binding and other important project that I forget or soon to be
related to OTR (we can think of Javascript stuff related to Cryptocat
for instance). I guess this is basically what cypherpunks.ca does
today but I'm thinking something much more wider in terms of OTR projects.

The motivation behind that is that it could help to ensure quality OTR
piece of software (security, peer review, ...), resources for
development for developers, and most importantly maintaining those
projects by making sure they never dies and end up with out of date
insecure stuff that people uses... (this is a fatality but at least we
can try to prevent it :).

Keep in mind that this is, up to now, only an idea that I want to
throw out here for comments and feedbacks. It's quite a big venture
but still might worth the effort in the long term or at least
think/discuss the idea before discarding it.

If you can think of a better place to send this email, let me know or
forward it! :).

Thanks a lot everyone!
David
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