<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=""><div class="" style="font-family: SFProText-Regular;">Hello!</div><div class="" style="font-family: SFProText-Regular;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: SFProText-Regular;">Thanks everyone who made it to today's UX team monthly meeting, and we're looking forward to seeing you all again in March. </div><div class="" style="font-family: SFProText-Regular;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: SFProText-Regular;">Here are the minutes: <a href="http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-02-09-13.58.log.html" class="">http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-02-09-13.58.log.html</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: SFProText-Regular;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: SFProText-Regular;">During today’s meeting we introduced a new project for the UX team: S103 – Collaborative ResistancE to Web Surveillance (CREWS), planned the final details of the upcoming Tor Browser and Snowflake user surveys, onboarded two new user research contributors who we’re very excited to have running their own sessions in the near future, and lastly received an update from josernitos on their developing research project.</div><div class="" style="font-family: SFProText-Regular;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: SFProText-Regular;">***</div><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""> <br class="">Open IRC meetings happen monthly on the first Tuesday of the month at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. <br class=""> <br class="">Next meeting will be held on Tuesday 2nd March at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. <br class=""><br class="">Here are the minutes for the meeting of February 9th:<br class="">Log: <a href="http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-02-09-13.58.log.html" class="">http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-02-09-13.58.log.html</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><br class="">Here are the minutes for the meeting of January 12th:<br class="">Log: <a href="http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-01-12-13.58.log.html" class="">http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-01-12-13.58.log.html</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><br class="">Here are the minutes for the meeting of November 10th:<br class="">Log: <a href="http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-11-10-13.58.log.html" class="">http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-11-10-13.58.log.html</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><br class="">Here are the minutes for the meeting of October 13th:<br class="">Log: <a href="http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-10-13-13.59.log.html" class="">http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-10-13-13.59.log.html</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""> <br class="">--------------------------<br class="">Tuesday February 9th 14:00 UTC<br class="">--------------------------<br class=""> <br class="">== What projects are we working on? ==<br class=""> <br class="">S9 - Usability and Community Intervention on Support for Democracy and Human Rights<br class=""></font><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• <a href="https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?" class="">https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?</a>scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=Sponsor%209&label_name[]=UX<br class=""></font></div><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><br class="">S30 - Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship<br class=""></font><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• <a href="https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?" class="">https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?</a>scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=Sponsor%2030&label_name[]=UX<br class=""></font></div><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><br class=""><strike class="">S84 - Onion Guides<br class=""></strike></font><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><strike class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• <a href="https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name" class="">https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name</a>[]=Sponsor%2084</strike><br class=""></font></div><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""> <br class="">== Announcements ==<br class=""><br class="">* Tor Browser 10.0.9 Release:<br class=""></font><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• <a href="https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1009" class="">https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1009</a><br class=""></font></div><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><br class="">* Tor Browser Alpha 10.5.a8 Release:<br class=""></font><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• <a href="https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-105a8" class="">https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-105a8</a><br class=""></font></div><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><br class="">== Agenda ==<br class=""><br class="">1. New Project: S103 – Collaborative ResistancE to Web Surveillance (CREWS)<br class=""></font><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• <a href="https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=Sponsor%20103" class="">https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=Sponsor%20103</a></font></div><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><br class="">2. Final planning for the upcoming surveys:<br class=""> * <a href="https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/11" class="">https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/11</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""> * <a href="https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40007" class="">https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40007</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""> * Chat about TB lang versions<br class=""> <br class=""> 3. Onboarding for new UR contributors:<br class=""> * Introductions<br class=""> <br class=""> Questions for UR contributors:<br class=""> * Is this your first contribution to the Tor Project?<br class=""> * Where will your research take place?<br class=""> * Who are your audience?<br class=""> <br class=""> Questions for the Tor <br class=""> * What are Tor's research priorities?<br class=""><br class="">== Open Call for User Research ==<br class=""><br class="">Materials and next steps for the contributors who attended today's session:<br class=""> <br class=""></font><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- <strike class="">Subscribe to the UX mailing:<br class=""></strike></font></div><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><strike class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• <a href="https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo" class="">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo</a></strike></font></div><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><br class=""></font><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- <strike class="">Find out more about user research for Tor on our Community portal:<br class=""></strike></font></div><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><strike class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• <a href="https://community.torproject.org/user-research/" class="">https://community.torproject.org/user-research/</a></strike></font></div><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><br class=""></font><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- <strike class="">Create an account on Gitlab, browse the UX Research repo, and get up to speed on Tor's personas:<br class=""></strike></font></div><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><strike class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• <a href="https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research" class="">https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research</a></strike></font></div><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""> <br class=""></font><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Read the guidelines on how to do user research with Tor:<br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• <a href="https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/blob/master/README.md" class="">https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/blob/master/README.md</a></font></div><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><br class=""></font><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Familiarize yourself with the User Needs Discovery activity:<br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• <a href="https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/blob/master/scripts and activities/2019/1._User_Needs_Discovery_-_Tor_Browser_Desktop.pdf" class="">https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/blob/master/scripts%20and%20activities/2019/1._User_Needs_Discovery_-_Tor_Browser_Desktop.pdf</a></font></div><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><br class=""></font><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Begin to think about the details of your session (i.e. Where are your participants joining the session from? How many will be attending? What materials/support will you need? When will your session take place?)<br class=""></font></div><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><br class=""></font><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Lastly: when you're ready, head back to the #tor-ux channel or email the team to review your session plan :)<br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class="">For anyone else who'd like to get involved: the UX team meets monthly on IRC in the #tor-meeting channel on the OFTC network. If you’re not familiar with IRC here are some instructions to get started: <a href="https://support.torproject.org/get-in-touch/#irc-help" class="">https://support.torproject.org/get-in-touch/#irc-help</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="SFProText-Regular" class=""><br class=""></font></div></div></body></html>