[pkg-otr-team] [OpenITP Dev] OTR.im launch

[Nadim Kobeissi]

Great work! This is a useful, accessible and informative website that can quickly introduce OTR to people and suggest effective solutions. Super worthwhile project!

Tweeted about it: https://twitter.com/kaepora/status/458978325609062401

NK

On Apr 23, 2014, at 9:59 AM, David Goulet <dgoulet at ev0ke.net> wrote:

> On 23 Apr (08:53:04), Nathan of Guardian wrote:
>> Great effort. Perhaps we can have OTR4J represented here, as well. It is currently maintained by Jitsi, though we are contributors. All hosting and bug tracking is done on github for now, but given the critical nature of the code, perhaps the canonical version should not be.
> 
> IMO, it's a very good idea. We forgot to mention that otr.im mirrors all
> main public repository to Github (pidgin-otr to come).
> 
> 	https://github.com/off-the-record/
> 
> So, if otr4j main library wants to move to otr.im and be mirrored on
> Github, IMHO, I think it's a good idea.
> 
> Cheers!
> David
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On April 23, 2014 7:28:03 AM EDT, Jurre van Bergen <jurre at useotrproject.org> wrote:
>>> 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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