Alison dijo [Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 07:41:00PM +0000]:
Hola todos/todas!
Hi!
Just by absolute chance, I entered today to look for some information on the Tor Project site, and came across this list. Immediately subscribed and hooked! :-D
I'm answering to a couple of the points in this list's opening mail.
- Create local Tor meetups and have Tor Project provide resources
(money, people, other materials)
- Hold the Tor Meeting in the Global South
(...)
- More Tor infrastructure in the Global South (relays, DirAuths,
BWAuths, etc)
Wow! This fits us perfectly. I'm just starting a group effort to get some students to work on Tor in the University I work at (Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), setting up at least a relay, but quite probably a full exit node... Lets see how this develops. But so far, it looks like I *have* to be in this list :)
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)
Ummm... Well, having a meeting in the Global South (lets be pragmatic: As I understand it, it mostly means "in Latin America") is complicated enough as our distances are way larger than what Europeans are used to (and USA-ians often frown upon international travel, mainly to this "underdeveloped backyard")...
Don't you think it's more important to hold this in a place where Latin Americans can travel to more easily? Getting some tens of Europeans or USA-ians won't be too hard. Moving Latin Americans is usually tougher, as money has a different scale and all...
- 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.
I jumped upon reading this. As I explained in my previous paragraph, even though I'd *love* it to be in Mexico City, I think we are too much on the edge of the region. Also, our country is not (by far) the most visa-friendly to Latin Americans.
But, FWIW, if Mexico were to be chosen (and you don't have any better contacts in here), I can provide (with 90% probability) very good facilities at my workplace, the country's largest university, either at a research institute or at a faculty surrounded by eager students.