Hi everyone!

Introduction: ----------------- I'm Mridul, a senior year undergraduate from IIIT-Delhi. I am really thrilled to have been selected in GSoC 2016 for the Exitmap improvements project! It's an amazing opportunity and I hope to contribute something substantial to the Tor community. My IRC handle is mtyamantau.

Details: ------------ My primary and secondary mentor will be Dr. Philipp Winter (phw) and Damian Johnson (atagar) respectively. I'll be primarily active on #tor-dev on irc.oftc.net and on tor-dev@lists.torproject.org.

About project: ------------------- The project is mainly focused around Exitmap improvements, with the three major aspects being implementing autonomous scanning, multiple user interaction in Tor Browser and a system for implementing automated data collection from multiple users[1]. My full proposal is linked below[2] for more information on this. I

Project details: -------------------- Official start and end dates: 23rd May (Mon) to 29th August (Mon).

For now, I plan to start reading and getting myself familiarized with the codebase before that. Also, I have still some uncertainty and questions in certain sub-tasks, which I hope to resolve with the Tor community.

I will be sending bi-weekly project reports to tor-dev@lists.torproject.org. They will mainly be on the progress that I have made that highlight the work done in that duration.

Cheers! Mridul (mtyamantau)

[1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/?sp-page_size=48#61378670677196... [2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AqjH3AsBbfesJg36SZg1frPQsdpAnJmzH8k1-G6d...