[global-south] next steps from Tor Meeting

[Alison]

Hola todos/todas!

Here are a few of the action items we discussed during our two Global
South sessions at the Amsterdam Tor Meeting:

*Get a Tor Project board member from the Global South: find some names
of possible candidates and then send to Linus and Biella (board members)
* Create local Tor meetups and have Tor Project provide resources
(money, people, other materials)
* Hold the Tor Meeting in the Global South
* Support local conferences, eg Cryptorave
* More Tor infrastructure in the Global South (relays, DirAuths,
BWAuths, etc)

These were the items that seemed to come up most frequently in our
discussion and seem like good starting points for this communication
channel. There are more action items and more discussion points here [1].

One thing I'd like to prioritize personally is holding the Tor Meeting
in the Global South. We discussed some possible locations and some of
the metrics we'd need to consider in identifying good places. Those
metrics include:
- overall cost
- visa requirements
- length of travel from the EU and the US/Canada (though we will
consider this, we discussed how people in the Global South have had to
deal with long travel times to the EU for all past meetings, so if we
find a good place that is a great distance from the EU, so be it)
- internet speeds
- possible conference center locations
- Tor's relationship to the local community (the relationship as it
exists, and opportunities to build it more)

Any other data points that we should consider? Anyone want to throw out
some initial ideas for host cities? Some of the cities already discussed
a bit include Quito, Mexico City, São Paulo, and Lima. There was some
rough consensus that South America is the best first place for a meeting
in the South, but it would be great to hear from people who disagree on
that.

Alison

[1]
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2017Amsterdam/Notes/GlobalSouth2

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