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

[Holmes Wilson]

Jure— This is great; totally very needed.

Do you have a group todo list for this project? I think a few small changes would make it even better.

1) A clear big download button in the top section on the front page, that autodetects the user’s platform, and has alternate platform download links. Examples: http://www.utorrent.com/ or https://videolan.org/vlc/ 

2) A clear visual explanation of how OTR works, and that it works with familiar services like gtalk and Facebook. It might be worth having designer friends make an infographic-style image. If somebody could make a video, that would be even better.

3) Buttons along the side of the page to share it on Facebook and Twitter. It might even be worth using the Facebook message dialog, so you can send a message to Facebook friends directly telling them to get OTR:  https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/reference/send-dialog

4) Finally, I think the biggest need here is for this to become the default URL included in the message that non-OTR-capable users receive when a friend wants to start an OTR conversation. Right now, if I try to start an OTR conversation with somebody who doesn’t have OTR, they get this page https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ which isn’t a very good introduction for a new user. Otr.im seems like an ideal replacement, especially if you make the above changes.

An extension of #4 would be to try to initiate OTR conversations by default, say, max once per week with each friend when you start a conversation, with a message that just gives the URL. If this feature got integrated into libotr, it would make OTR *much* more viral! And I don’t really see a downside; it wouldn’t be too annoying, and you could let users turn it off if they want to.

—Holmes

On Apr 23, 2014, at 7:28 AM, 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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