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Re: [global-south] next steps from Tor Meeting
by teor 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

Hi, I'm Tim (or teor), and I live in Australia. I'm not really part of the global south. But I know what it is like to be a long way away in a different timezone. > Here are a few of the action items we discussed during our two Global > South sessions at the Amsterdam Tor Meeting: > > ... > * More Tor infrastructure in the Global South (relays, DirAuths, > BWAuths, etc) I am helping micah and ilv work on this, starting with bandwidth servers. > One thing I'd like to prioritize personally is holding the Tor Meeting > in the Global South. We discussed some possible locations and some of > the metrics we'd need to consider in identifying good places. Those > metrics include: > - overall cost > - visa requirements > - length of travel from the EU and the US/Canada (though we will > consider this, we discussed how people in the Global South have had to > deal with long travel times to the EU for all past meetings, so if we > find a good place that is a great distance from the EU, so be it) > - internet speeds Tor will be slower anywhere in the global south, because most guards are in North America / Europe. (It amazed me how fast Tor was in Amsterdam compared with Canberra.) But it will be good for people to know what it is like. > Any other data points that we should consider? Anyone want to throw out > some initial ideas for host cities? Some of the cities already discussed > a bit include Quito, Mexico City, São Paulo, and Lima. There was some > rough consensus that South America is the best first place for a meeting > in the South, but it would be great to hear from people who disagree on > that. I think South America is a great first place. Some countries in South-East Asia have excellent internet, and cheap and good hotels. But they are a long way away from both the EU and North America. And I'm not sure of the visa requirements. T -- Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n xmpp: teor at torproject dot org ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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initial planning for the Global South Tor meeting
by Alison 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

Hi all, As discussed on the previous thread, I've begun researching different cities for our first Tor Meeting in the Global South. I've started a pad with my preliminary research: http://5jp7xtmox6jyoqd5.onion/p/GSmeeting (or pad.riseup.net/p/GSmeeting). The text that's highlighted is stuff I intend to research but haven't gotten to yet. Mostly, I've been looking into travel costs and visa requirements. Please feel free to add your feedback about anything I've got here -- whether it's another suggested city (which doesn't need to be in Latin America -- that's just where all the suggestions from the meeting were) or particulars about one of the cities. Thanks for your consideration, Alison

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next steps from Tor Meeting
by Alison 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

Hola todos/todas! Here are a few of the action items we discussed during our two Global South sessions at the Amsterdam Tor Meeting: *Get a Tor Project board member from the Global South: find some names of possible candidates and then send to Linus and Biella (board members) * Create local Tor meetups and have Tor Project provide resources (money, people, other materials) * Hold the Tor Meeting in the Global South * Support local conferences, eg Cryptorave * More Tor infrastructure in the Global South (relays, DirAuths, BWAuths, etc) These were the items that seemed to come up most frequently in our discussion and seem like good starting points for this communication channel. There are more action items and more discussion points here [1]. One thing I'd like to prioritize personally is holding the Tor Meeting in the Global South. We discussed some possible locations and some of the metrics we'd need to consider in identifying good places. Those metrics include: - overall cost - visa requirements - length of travel from the EU and the US/Canada (though we will consider this, we discussed how people in the Global South have had to deal with long travel times to the EU for all past meetings, so if we find a good place that is a great distance from the EU, so be it) - internet speeds - possible conference center locations - Tor's relationship to the local community (the relationship as it exists, and opportunities to build it more) Any other data points that we should consider? Anyone want to throw out some initial ideas for host cities? Some of the cities already discussed a bit include Quito, Mexico City, São Paulo, and Lima. There was some rough consensus that South America is the best first place for a meeting in the South, but it would be great to hear from people who disagree on that. Alison [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2017Amsterdam/No…

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