[OTR-dev] OTR.im launch

[Jurre van Bergen]

Dear all,

Today, we would like to announce a new platform, https://otr.im, for
projects offering off-the-record capabilities.

Otr.im was started to strengthen the OTR community by providing a hub
where developers can find each other, improve their respected projects
and contribute to the OTR community.  Libotr is now accessible using a
new bugtracker which can be reached at https://bugs.otr.im/ - this
bugtracker is a new place for contributing to the reference
implementation, libotr. We also want to provide new and/or existing
projects with hosting, meaning, giving them access to the bugtracker and
git repositories. As of now, along with libotr, pidgin-otr plugins is
also hosted there.

However, OTR.im is not a replacement for https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/, it
is merely an addition to the community as a whole and a way to do the
project hosting.

There is an increased interest in OTR and mpOTR the past few months,
Last month there has been an announcement of the Debian OTR team [1]. A
group of cryptographers and developers is also working on an mpOTR
specification, which allows more then 2 people to chat with each other 
end-to-end encryption.

Last but not least, get involved!

All the best,
OTR.im team

[1]
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-otr-team/Week-of-Mon-20140331/000367.html
[2] https://blog.crypto.cat/2014/01/mpotr-project-plan/

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