<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Hi Tor Project list,</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The OONI team started a new contract with the OTF in October 2017!</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">We carried out research and published a document outlining the architecture and design considerations for the implementation of the native OONI Probe apps for Windows and macOS. We also published two research reports on internet censorship in Pakistan (in collaboration with Bytes for All, Pakistan) and on censorship events that occurred during Catalonia's independence referendum (in collaboration with Virtual Road/Qurium). We updated various test lists with URLs provided by community members, and we published a post outlining our sessions at our team meeting in Montreal.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">## Research on writing OONI Probe desktop apps</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Over the next year we will be building native OONI Probe apps for Windows and macOS. To implement these apps, we started by making the decision of what technology stack to use, and the high-level architecture.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">We experimented with various solutions and documented their advantages and disadvantages. We published a blog post outlining the architecture and design considerations that we made for the implementation of OONI Probe desktop apps, as a result of research and experimentation with a variety of different libraries and approaches. This document, outlining the rationale behind our choices for the OONI Probe desktop apps, is available here: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/writing-a-modern-cross-platform-desktop-app/</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">## Published research report on internet censorship in Pakistan</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">In collaboration with Bytes for All, Pakistan, we published a research report examining internet censorship in Pakistan. This report is available here: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/pakistan-internet-censorship/</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Our report includes an analysis of all OONI Probe network measurements collected from Pakistan over the last three years, between 2014-2017. </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The report received the following press coverage:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* https://www.dawn.com/news/1364766</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* https://www.dawn.com/news/1365441/internet-censorship</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* https://www.techjuice.pk/pakistan-blocked-200-urls-3-years-report/</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* https://www.phoneworld.com.pk/more-than-200-urls-blocked-in-pakistan/</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* https://ceylontoday.lk/print20170401CT20170630.php?id=32601</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">## Published research report on internet censorship during Catalonia's independence referendum</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">In collaboration with Virtual Road/Qurium, we published a research report examining internet censorship events that emerged during Catalonia's independence referendum.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Our report is available here: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/internet-censorship-catalonia-independence-referendum/</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Community members translated our report to the following languages:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* Catalan: https://ooni.torproject.org/ca/post/internet-censorship-catalonia-independence-referendum/</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* Spanish: https://ooni.torproject.org/es/post/internet-censorship-catalonia-independence-referendum/</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* French: https://ooni.torproject.org/fr/post/internet-censorship-catalonia-independence-referendum/</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">This report received a fair amount of social media attention and some press coverage (https://www.agi.it/estero/catalogna_spagna_hacker-2278801/news/2017-10-22/).</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">## Wrote article on investigating internet censorship with OONI data for the Data Driven Journalism Project</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The Data Driven Journalism project published our article explaining how to investigate internet censorship with OONI data.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Our article is available here: http://datadrivenjournalism.net/resources/ooni_data</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">We hope that this article will help engage more data journalists with OONI data.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">## Updated test lists</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">We collaborated with community members and OTF fellows on updating various test lists. Thanks to the URLs they provided, the following test lists have been updated:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">1. TM and UZ: https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/235</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">2. RU, UA, Global: https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/241</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">3. Global: https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/248</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">4. BY: https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/242</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">## OONI team meeting in Montreal</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The OONI team gathered for a 4-day meeting in Montreal to reflect, regroup, hack and plan in preparation for our new contract with the OTF.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">We published a post including:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* A summary of the main things that the OONI team is working on</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* All sessions hosted as part of the meeting and all session notes</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* Meeting outcomes</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">This post is available here: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/ooni-team-meeting-montreal-2017/</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">All session notes are available here: https://github.com/OpenObservatory/gatherings/tree/master/internal/2017-10-montreal</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">## Tor meeting in Montreal</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The OONI team also attended the Tor meeting in Montreal, between 11th-15th October 2017.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">As part of this meeting, we facilitated the following sessions:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* OONI and Tor Browser collaboration: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2017Montreal/Notes/OONI-TorBrowserCollaboration</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* OONI and Tor Metrics collaboration: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2017Montreal/Notes/OONIMetrics</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">## Userbase</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">In October 2017 OONI Probe was run 128,522 times from 1,661 different vantage points across 152 countries around the world.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">This information can also be found through our stats here: https://api.ooni.io/stats</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">~ The OONI team.</div></div></div><br><div class="bloop_sign" id="bloop_sign_1509530805658619904"></div></body></html>