<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Here are highlights from the world of Tor marketing, communications and outreach for March:</span><br></div><div><p style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px">
<b>Summer Dev Meeting:</b><br></p><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px"><ul><li>Contacted numerous hotels around Paris regarding a block of rooms for the summer dev meeting;</li><li>Negotiated pricing and perks and received proposals from 2 hotels;</li>
<li>Due pricing and other considerations we did not reserve a block of rooms and therefore, the proposals expired;</li><li>Maintained contact with with our host in Paris regarding the announcement of the meeting - this is on hold until further notice;<br>
</li><li>Reported on the summer dev meeting (new ideas / improvements) to for-internal - thank you everyone for your feedback. </li><li>Have presented and discussed multiple options and ideas with Andrew regarding structure and logistics - a decision will be made soon and reported out to the team and begin outreach for sponsors.</li>
</ul><b> Additionally, I did the following: </b></div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><b style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px">Tor Outreach Strategy</b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px"> - developed a company-wide outreach strategy and presented it to Andrew, Roger, Caspar, and others for feedback. A project plan is next and will be shared with the community for feedback.</span><br>
</li><li style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;margin-left:15px"><b>Sponsor O - Outreach and Training</b> - Discussed some project ideas and direction with <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Colin C. and Karsten to better organize and manage the tasks the Outreach/Training goals for Sponsor O. Developed a detailed project plan - shared it with Karsten for feedback.</span></li>
<li style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;margin-left:15px"><b>Thanks to Donors </b>- sent (hardcopy) thank you notes to those who mailed in donations.</li><li style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;margin-left:15px">
<b>Proposals </b>- submitted two proposals to the Knight Foundation News Challenge - announcement if we move to the next round will come April 18th.</li><li style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;margin-left:15px"><b>LibrePlant2014 </b>- <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:small">Met up with Moritz (briefly) at the LibrePlanet to arm him with stickers and other Tor swag - btw, Moritz you still have the banner and it was great to see you in Boston!</span></li>
<li style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;margin-left:15px"><b>Journalist Training -</b> lead a journalists training event at NICAR in Baltimore, a results I received a request by the Washington Post to do a training with their news team tentatively in April. </li>
<li style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;margin-left:15px"><b>International Cyber Warfare Conference & CERIAS Symposium</b> - both held at Purdue University, I attended wearing two hats... a Ph.D. Student studying at Purdue and a member of the Tor team. On be half of Tor made several connections (and follow up) with executive level law enforcement and privacy and civil liberties experts.</li>
<li style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;margin-left:15px"><b>SXSW</b> - attended SXSW with Karen. Spent most of my time talking about Tor with the Knight Foundation people, attending a few "free" sessions as I did not have a badge for the entire event, conducted a couple of press interviews and gathered additional information about journalist training and the Knight News Challenge. <br>
</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><b style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px">Communications Training:</b><font face="Helvetica"> </font><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica">discussed with Beth Jacobs at Spitfire strategies next steps in our communications training and the possibilities of them doing a 1/2 session with us in Paris</font><font face="Helvetica">.</font></li>
<li style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;margin-left:15px"><b>Press Requests:</b> Continued fielding and responding to media request through execdir. Did 3 phone interviews in March. Organized and contributed to in person interview done in the offices. </li>
<li style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;margin-left:15px"><b>2013 Annual Report</b> - On hold until I have the go ahead from Andrew. </li><li style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;margin-left:15px"><b>Ongoing Outreach [funding]:</b> Continued seeking and making contact with new funding or other partners.<br>
</li><li style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;margin-left:15px"><b>“Upcoming Tor Events” on Tor blog</b> - Continued updating as I see things come over tor-internal. </li><li style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;margin-left:15px">
<b>Tor Press Page</b> - did some updates on the wiki and to the press page. Will be establishing a regular rhythm of updating this in April and beyond.</li><li style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;margin-left:15px">
<b>Tor Swag</b> - mailed stickers and sent links for relay t-shirts. The plan for purchasing additional t-shirt, etc. will be built into the outreach plan mentioned above.</li></ul><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px">Thanks everyone - enjoy the start of Spring and see you all in a few short months in Paris.</div></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px"><br></div>
<div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px">Kelley</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><font size="1" color="#009900"><b>Kelley Misata</b></font><div><font size="1" color="#009900"><b>Outreach and Communications</b></font></div>
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