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

[Nadim Kobeissi]

This is without question an excellent idea.


NK


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:23 PM, David Goulet <dgoulet at ev0ke.net> wrote:

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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 projects by making sure they never dies and end up with out of date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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