[tor-project] community team update, October 2018

[Alison Macrina]

October 2018 Community Team highlights

Meeting notes
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https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/CommunityTeam#CurrentTeamDiscussions


Tor Meeting
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We held the Mexico City meeting and it was amazing! You can read the
notes from that meeting here [1].

Several Tor people including Gus and Antonela gave talks "Coloquio
Academico Mecanismos de Privacidad y Anonimato en Redes" at UNAM after
the Tor Meeting.

Later in October, Alison sent out a survey for the next Tor Meeting
location and dates to all core contributors (and the winner is Athens,
May 2019)


Community portal, support portal, and user advocacy		
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We mapped out our needs for community.torproject.org and began working
on outreach material for that portal along with the UX team.

Maggie took on more user advocate responsibilities and continued the
monthly user issues update email.


Anti-censorship
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In October, Kat began work writing and aggregating reports about Tor's
anti-censorship efforts.

Localization
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emmapeel localized donate.torproject.org, got Chinese added to
support.torproject.org, and added screenshots in Transifex.


Library Freedom Institute
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Alison began migrating LFI content to a wiki. The LFI cohort completed
weeks 19-22 of their training. Library Freedom also started a website
redesign, which we will debut soon!


Tor talks and outreach
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Maggie and Cybelle held a "Demystifying Tor" workshop at MozFest

Alison submitted the CFP for the UX and community teams to talk at IFF.
She also worked on planning for the two teams to attend that conference
together.

Roger submitted a talk to FOSDEM, Steph requested a stand, and ahf made
a wiki for Tor people attending [2].

Gus is working on creating volunteer projects for students at the
University of Sao Paulo (USP).

Gus gave a Tor talk to students of LabJor [3] and gave a security
workshop in Sao Paolo.

Gus also organized travel to Guatemala to give a Tor talk and organized
a security workshop at BIENAL in Sao Paolo.


Relay advocacy
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Colin is working with a VPN company on deploying some exit relays.

He also updated the obfsproxy bridge deployment instructions and
identified primary documentation [4] and sent a moderation email to
tor-relays [5].

He worked on deploying VMs for fallback directory list rebuilding and
updated the fallback list in preparation for rebuild.

Finally, Colin contacted operators running EOL versions of Tor and
encouraged them to upgrade.

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[1]
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2018MexicoCity/Notes
[2] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2019Brussels
[3] http://www.labjor.unicamp.br/
[4]
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/PluggableTransports/obfs4proxy
[5]
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2018-October/016524.html
-- 
Alison Macrina
Community Team Lead
The Tor Project