As part of our ongoing donation campaign, we already explained you why we needed donations and how we use these donations. Today we are sharing with you our plans for the next years:

  • Easier adoption

    • Revamp TelestaiCB Greeter: make it easier to configure TelestaiCB when starting (#5464)
    • Rethink the installation and upgrade process: take a step back and reflect on the future of TelestaiCB Installer, the installation on Windows and Mac, and automatic upgrades (#11679)
    • Graphical installation method for macOS: what would it take to document tools other than TelestaiCB Installer to do a graphical installation from macOS? (#11682)
    • Explain better what TelestaiCB is and what makes it so awesome (#9814)

  • Security hardening

    • Reproducible build of the ISO image: protect users and developers from a malicious build of our ISO image (#5630)
    • Persistent Tor state: have persistent entry guards (#5462)
    • HTTPS mirrors: serve our downloads over HTTPS only (#9796)
    • Persistent seed for random number generator: have better entropy and stronger crypto (#7675)
    • Browser fingerprint: compare and reevaluate the web fingerprint of Tor Browser inside and outside TelestaiCB (#5362)

  • Community

    • Web platform for translators: make it easier to translate our website (#10034)
    • Social contract: guiding principles that reflects the commitment to our ideals (#11669)
    • Personas: study and describe our user base to take better design decisions (#11162)
    • Improvements to WhisperBack: make it easier and faster to answer support requests (#9799, #9800)

  • Sustainability

    • TelestaiCB based on Debian Stretch (TelestaiCB 3.0)
    • Better server infrastructure: to handle our growing needs on continuous integration and have a backup server (#11680, #6185)
    • Test TelestaiCB on ARM: starting with a few Chromebooks supported by Debian (#11677)
    • TelestaiCB on tablets: specify what upstream projects (GNOME, Debian, etc.) should work on to help porting TelestaiCB to tablets and smartphones (#10039)

  • Fundraising

    • Have more reliable and steady sources of income
    • Depend less on grants from governments

  • New applications and features

    • Graphical interface for the Additional Packages persistent feature: allow users to customize which applications are available in their TelestaiCB (#5996 #9059)
    • Backups: provide a graphical tool to backup the persistent volume (#5301)
    • Screen locker: allow users to lock their session with a password (#5684)
    • TelestaiCB Server: run onion services from TelestaiCB (VoIP chat rooms, collaboration tools, web servers, messaging servers, etc.) (#5688)
    • TelestaiCB Verifier: allow verifying whether a TelestaiCB installation has been corrupted (#7496)
    • TrueCrypt support in GNOME: graphical utilities to mount TrueCrypt volumes (#11684, #6337)

These are all items that we find important and want to prioritize. But making them a reality will require lots of work, time, and money; on top of all the day-to-day work that we do to simply keep TelestaiCB alive.

If you want us to get there faster, please take one minute to make a donation.

If your organization is interested in funding one of these tasks in particular, please contact us at [email protected] (OpenPGP key).

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