<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""> <title class=""></title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" class=""> <div style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#000000;font-size:13px;" class=""><div id="CanaryBody" class=""> <div class=""> Hi everyone,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sorry this is a bit late, but I just wanted to follow up on the Vision exercise that we ran on Monday with a quick recap. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">First of all we went through the reason we need a Community team at Tor. This is some of what we came up with: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- To present a human face to our technology so that non-technical people and communities feel welcome and empowered to use Tor. </div><div class="">- To maintain a healthy community of volunteers and relay operators to support users in accomplishing their goals of preserving their privacy and anonymity online, not to acquire more users in order to further our own existence.</div><div class="">- To encourage people to join our community and do their own outreach to help us normalise the use of Tor and achieve wider acceptance. This is a positive feedback loop which in turn helps the whole community of Tor users obtain crowd anonymity. </div><div class="">- To act as a bridge between the UX team and Technical teams to reach out to end users and let them know that we exist as well as ensuring that we are meeting their needs as well and offering the right resources to them. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Next we shared some challenges that we have, the idea behind this being that if we are aware of our challenges, they can inform what we want to overcome and where we want to be in future.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- We feel that there is a lack of funding for the community team to hire key staff such as a dedicated support person, volunteer coordinator and tech writer as well as attending a more diverse set of conferences to widen our community and in particular our number of relay operators.</div><div class="">- We also feel that we struggle to keep volunteer engagement and long term retention and that we could benefit from the relay advocate role model for volunteers. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div class="">- We would like to have more non-technical people embrace Tor in the same way that they embraced the internet and to engage young people but understand that this can be challenging to approach from educational institutions as this can help them evade firewalls and web filters set up in these institutions. </div><div class="">- We would like more human rights defender organisations in the global south to understand the difference between a VPN and Tor and embrace the protections that Tor can bring, both to their work and lives, instead of being wary and scared of it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have paraphrased slightly and combined what was shared, so feel free to correct any details and help me keep refining these points. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You can find the full meeting log here: <a href="http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-meeting.2019-02-11-15.59.log.html" class="">http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-meeting.2019-02-11-15.59.log.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Feel free to continue the discussion here and come up with any others that we can add to this list! We’ll have another follow up session during the next Community Team meeting (2/25) to finish off this exercise. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Pili</div> </div> <div id="CanarySig" class=""> <div class=""> <div style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#000;font-size:13px;" class="">—<div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(96, 108, 118); color: rgb(96, 108, 118); font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.12999999523162842px;" class="">Project Manager: Tor Browser, UX and Community teams</span></div><div class=""><font color="#606c76" face="-apple-system, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(96, 108, 118); letter-spacing: 0.12999999523162842px;" class="">pili at torproject dot org </span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#606c76" face="-apple-system, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(96, 108, 118); letter-spacing: 0.12999999523162842px;" class="">gpg </span></font><font color="#4d5862" class="">3E7F A89E 2459 B6CC A62F 56B8 C6CB 772E F096 9C45</font></div></div> <div class=""><br class=""></div> </div> </div> <div id="CanaryDropbox" class=""> </div> <blockquote id="CanaryBlockquote" class=""> <div class=""> <div class="">On Tuesday, Feb 05, 2019 at 5:49 PM, Pili Guerra <<a href="mailto:pili@torproject.org" class="">pili@torproject.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Team,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Let’s do a brainstorm next week about where we see the Tor Community and the Tor Community Team going and where we want to be in the near future. This will help us both to prioritise our work and decide on the best funding opportunities for us. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I propose that we do this during next week’s Community Team meeting (Monday 11th February @ 16:00 UTC) after everyone is done with their updates. I hope you will all be able to attend.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Pili<br class=""><div class=""> <div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">—<br class="">Project Manager: Tor Browser, UX and Community teams<br class="">pili at torproject dot org <br class="">gpg 3E7F A89E 2459 B6CC A62F 56B8 C6CB 772E F096 9C45</div> </div> <br class=""></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">tor-community-team mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:tor-community-team@lists.torproject.org" class="">tor-community-team@lists.torproject.org</a><br class="">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-community-team<br class=""></div> </div> </blockquote> </div></body></html>