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 Welcome to the sixteenth issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly
 newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community.
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+ 1. A new era at the Tor Project
+ 2. Tor Summer of Privacy — chosen projects announced!
+ 3. Miscellaneous news
+ 4. Upcoming events
 
 A new era at the Tor Project
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 ''94th issue of Tor Weekly News. Covering what's happening from April 14th, 2015 to April 21st, 2015. To be released on April 22nd, 2015.''
 
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 '''Subject:''' Tor Weekly News — April 22nd, 2015
 
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 Welcome to the sixteenth issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly
-newsletter that covers what’s happening in the XXX Tor community.
+newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community.
 
-Feature XXX
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+A new era at the Tor Project
+----------------------------
 
-Feature 1 with cited source [XXX]
+Andrew Lewman, who has overseen the Tor Project’s business operations
+since 2009 as Executive Director, will shortly be moving on [XXX] to a
+new position at the head of an internet services company. During
+Andrew’s time as Executive Director, Tor has developed into a leading
+privacy tool used every day by millions of users around the world, and
+the Tor community has grown to include more engineers, researchers,
+activists, and volunteers than ever before. Thanks to Andrew for
+everything he has done for the Tor community, and best of luck for
+the future!
 
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/new-era-tor-project
 
-Monthly status reports for XXX month 2015
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+Tor Summer of Privacy — chosen projects announced!
+--------------------------------------------------
 
-The wave of regular monthly reports from Tor project members for the
-month of XXX has begun. XXX released his report first [XXX], followed
-by reports from name 2 [XXX], name 3 [XXX], and name 4 [XXX].
+The application period for the first-ever Tor Summer of Privacy [XXX] —
+the funded development season inspired by Google Summer of Code — closed
+last week, with twenty-two proposals submitted before the deadline. All
+the project ideas were of a very high standard, but sadly funding and
+mentoring constraints meant that only four could be chosen, and Damian
+Johnson took to the Tor blog [XXX] to share the list of the winners.
 
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
+Donncha O’Cearbhaill will be working on a system [XXX] to increase the
+availability of large onion services by balancing requests across
+several back-end servers, each running its own Tor instance; Jesse
+Victors will be implementing a human-meaningful name system for onion
+services [XXX], similar to DNS on the non-private web; former GSoC
+student and GetTor project leader Israel Leiva will be returning to
+carry out further work on the alternative distribution system for Tor
+software [XXX]; and Israel’s twin brother Cristóbal will be developing a
+web-based status dashboard for Tor relays [XXX].
+
+These are all exciting and important projects, and as Damian wrote,
+“we’re thrilled to have them with us”. Even if you submitted a proposal
+that wasn’t chosen, please don’t be discouraged: a number of the
+projects rejected for lack of resources are still high on Tor
+developers’ wishlists, so if you can find any way to contribute in the
+future, feel free to seek advice and assistance from the community.
+
+Coding for Tor Summer of Privacy officially starts on May 25th.
+In the meantime, congratulations to the four students!
+
+ [XXX]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/TorSoP
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-summer-privacy-projects
+ [XXX]: https://gist.github.com/DonnchaC/03ad5cd0b8ead0ae9e30
+ [XXX]: https://github.com/Jesse-V/OnioNS
+ [XXX]: https://people.torproject.org/~ilv/sop_proposal_2015.html
+ [XXX]: https://leivaburto.github.io/sop-proposal/
 
 Miscellaneous news
 ------------------
 
-Item 1 with cited source [XXX].
+Yawning Angel announced [XXX] obfs4proxy-0.0.5. This release is better
+able to detect whether the parent Tor process has crashed, and also
+brings IPv6 support to clients. All users are recommended to upgrade:
+please see Yawning’s announcement for further details.
 
-Item 2 with cited source [XXX].
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-April/008665.html
 
-Item 3 with cited source [XXX].
+Anthony G. Basile announced [XXX] version 20150411 of Tor-ramdisk, the
+micro Linux distribution whose only purpose is to host a Tor server in
+an environment that maximizes security and privacy. This release
+includes updated versions of Tor and the Linux kernel.
 
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-April/037497.html
 
-Tor help desk roundup
----------------------
+David Fifield wondered [XXX] about the cause of a sudden large increase
+in the number of Tor clients using the meek pluggable transport that
+occurred around April 15th.
 
-Summary of some questions sent to the Tor help desk. 
-
-News from Tor StackExchange
----------------------------
-
-Text with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]:
-
-Easy development tasks to get involved with
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-
-Text with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]: 
-
-This week in Tor history
-------------------------
-
-Text with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]: 
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-April/008705.html
 
 Upcoming events
 ---------------
 
-Jul XX-XX | Event XXX brief description
-          | Event City, Event Country
-          | Event website URL
-          |
-Jul XX-XX | Event XXX brief description
-          | Event City, Event Country
-          | Event website URL
+  Apr 22 13:30 UTC | little-t tor development meeting
+                   | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+                   |
+  Apr 24           | Roger @ CTIC Privacy Conference
+                   | University of Pennsylvania Law School
+                   | https://www.law.upenn.edu/newsevents/calendar.php#event_id/48977/view/event
+                   |
+  Apr 27 18:00 UTC | Tor Browser online meeting
+                   | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+                   |
+  Apr 27 18:00 UTC | OONI development meeting
+                   | #ooni, irc.oftc.net
+                   |
+  Apr 28 18:00 UTC | little-t tor patch workshop
+                   | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+                   |
+  Apr 29 02:00 UTC | Pluggable transports/bridges meeting
+                   | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+                   | https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-April/008627.html
+                   |
+  May 03 19:00 UTC | Tails contributors meeting
+                   | #tails-dev, irc.oftc.net
+                   | https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-project/2015-April/000187.html
 
 
-This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by XXX, XXX, and
-XXX.
+This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by Harmony.
 
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