[tor-project] Notes from August 24 2017 Vegas team meeting

[Karsten Loesing]

Notes for August 24 2017 meeting:

Isabela:
1) was on vacation - so catching up on all things
2) writing reports for sponsor4 deliverables that are done
3) picking up on Tor Launcher work
4) Met with Tommy to work on a proposal for OTF to pay a part-time UI
designer to work with UX team for 6 months
5) wrote a self-feedback performance report to my peers/manager
6) pinged some teams/people to get meetings organized for Montreal

Alison:
1) Working on getting agenda ideas for Montreal
2) Made some more updates to the support wiki with Phoul
3) One more day for contributor guidelines proposal drafting, then vote
4) Worked out letter of inquiry template for outreach funding with Tommy
5) Did first fundraising sprint, second one is today

Georg:
1) I wanted to raise awareness of https://zerodium.com/program.html
which is getting circulated
2) I've been catching up on things after being mostly away from keyboard
last week

Nick:
1) Back from vacation. Too many things to pay attention to!
2) Expect to merge working next-gen hidden services in the next 7 days.
3) Trying to coordinate timeline for launcher bootstrap-progress backend
stuff with catalyst, mcs, isabela, etc. Not sure I have great visibility
into the status there.
4) Our triage-and-planning process is still wonky on my team, but I
think we're learning

Shari:
1) lots of time working with Giant Rabbit to start end-of-year campaign
2) board meeting next week to talk about adding new members
3) talking with DRL to kick off Tor mobile grant
4) gonna send a note around about upcoming vacation (I'm out starting
Tuesday of next week)
5) welcoming Tommy to his new home in Seattle; talking with him about
grant strategy
6) trying to get Sukhbir as MDF tech fellow; reviewed other applicants
while we wait

Steph:
1) Fixing some issues with the odp and odt templates.
2) Working on our end of year fundraising campaign, sprints yesterday
and today
3) Fielding inquiries, managing social media, blog calendar. New post
from OONI going up Monday, will be getting the draft today
4) Talking to 2 possible speaker trainers for a half day training in
Montreal. Should be able to make a decision on Tues at next comms meeting
5) Working with UX team on Onion Browser user testing survey

Brad:
1) Ongoing work related to the financial statement and compliance audit
for calendar year 2016
2) Also beginning work on preparation of Form 990 (annual tax return)

Arturo:
1) We have been discussing quite a bit the issue of securing probe
orchestration (when we will deploy the run any ooniprobe test version of
it). Here: https://github.com/TheTorProject/proteus/issues/24, feedback
from crypto/security people is appreciated.
2) Had calls with some researchers how we can better work together and
they can help us solve some of the research problems we have.
3) We sent the first OONI push notification telling people to run
ooniprobe in Angola to monitor the elections!

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