March 2015 - ooni-dev - lists.torproject.org

Reminder for weekly OONI dev meeting Monday 2015-03-30 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET)
by Arturo Filastò 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

Hello Oonitarians, This is a reminder that tomorrow there will be the weekly OONI meeting. It will happen as usual on the #ooni channel on irc.oftc.net at 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET, 13:00 EST, 10:00 PST). Everybody is welcome to join us and bring their questions and feedback. See you later, ~ Arturo

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Reminder for weekly OONI dev meeting Monday 2015-03-23 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET)
by Arturo Filastò 23 Mar '15

23 Mar '15

Hello Oonitarians, This is a reminder that today there will be the weekly OONI meeting. It will happen as usual on the #ooni channel on irc.oftc.net at 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET, 13:00 EST, 10:00 PST). Everybody is welcome to join us and bring their questions and feedback. See you later, ~ Arturo

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OONI team progress report for February 2015
by Arturo Filastò 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

# What we did in February * Tag a release candidate for ooniprobe 1.2.3-rc1: https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/releases/tag/v1.2.3-rc1 * Implement multiprocessing support in oonipipeline: https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-pipeline/commit/64c6b1082cc304f264c75… * Publish reports in gzipped format: https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-pipeline/commit/197664fbe57d3d4b3293b… * Re-run the sanitise task on the reports and fix bugs while doing so * Setup the various cronjobs to automate gathering reports from collectors and pushing the reports through the pipeline. * Flatten pipeline DB structure of reports and measurements https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-pipeline/commit/3be900736472a15b33e67… * Discuss the roadmap for the future of OONI: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/ooni-dev/2015-February/000246.html * Continue development of libight on iOS and Android * Write up the methodology to be used for assessing internet censorship in Iran. * Progress on having obfs4 support in ooniprobe * Setup a shell that allows people to access the mongodb database directly and provide access to interested parties. * Debug issues related to using lepidopter and vagrant: https://github.com/anadahz/lepidopter/pull/3 * Disable the sys path hack in ooniprobe: https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/commit/3bad9401e657507abea23bb4… * Restore ooni-app in development mode on the pipeline server (this is not yet officially public) * Attend Open ITP Circumvention Summit # Plans for March * Work on analysing censorship circumvention tools to be tested inside of Iran * Work on proposal for end of 2015 - 2016 * Attend workshop on Ethics and Philosophy of Internet research in Oxford * Work on organizing the OONI hackfest in Rome * Merge obfs4 patch * Work on making citizen-lab test-lists more of a community effort * Finish the roadmap sketched out at the Tor developer meeting ~ Arturo

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OONI team progress report for January 2015
by Arturo Filastò 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

It seems like we got a bit too carried away and did not write a status report for 2 months. So here is the report for January and following this mail will be the progress report for February. # What we did in January ## What we said we would do: * Create the ooni-probe operator mailing list and subscribe all relevant people to it. * Improve the consent disclaimer for ooni-probe Work was started on this, but is not yet finished as we are waiting to also have a professional legal opinion: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/ooni-dev/2015-January/000208.html * Work on visualizations for the tests Some progress has been done on this. Mainly the existing code was moved to TheTorProject github account here: https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-app * Automate the report publishing and synchronization tasks The changes needed in ooni-sysadmin were implemented, but we did not complete in January the ooni-pipeline stuff (see new report for details on that). https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-sysadmin/commits/master * Setup monitoring of ooni infrastructure: No progress on this was made https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/12549 * Add support for obfs4 Progress on this has been made, but it is not yet merged into master https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13597 ## What else we did * Migrate the pipeline and bouncer to a new machine since we had run out of disk space. * Restructure directories where ooni software writes/reads from needed for releasing the new debian package: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14086 * Various bugfixes and improvements to fix issues with the debian package: https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/commits/master * Properly handle some 500 errors in ooni-backend: https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-backend/commit/f32e07783d3d4490433ba7… * Fix error handling in report update: https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-backend/commit/8f3b5fd74bbe89602312e9… That's all folks, following will be the report for February 2015 ~ Arturo

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Reminder for weekly OONI dev meeting Monday 2015-03-16 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET)
by Arturo Filastò 16 Mar '15

16 Mar '15

Hello Oonitarians, This is a reminder that today there will be the weekly OONI meeting. It will happen as usual on the #ooni channel on irc.oftc.net at 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET, 13:00 EST, 10:00 PST). Everybody is welcome to join us and bring their questions and feedback. See you later, ~ Arturo

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Update on OONI roadmap
by Isabela 11 Mar '15

11 Mar '15

Hello everyone. In Valencia dev meeting we did an exercise to help create a roadmap (1yr) for the different Tor projects and organizational work. I've collected those roadmaps and published them here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/roadmaps (I will be sending a similar email to the other dev and org teams as well. ) The folks in this list should look at the roadmaps for *OONI**,* specially for the tables (specially for March and April) and fill up the empty cells for: * who -> person(s) who the task should be assigned to * tickets -> ticket(s) related to the task (please create them if appropriate) * date -> estimation dates are always good :) Let me know if you have questions, here is a direct link to OONI roadmap: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/roadmaps/OONI thanks everyone, Isabela

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OONI weekly dev meeting today Monday 9th of March 18:00 UTC
by Arturo Filastò 08 Mar '15

08 Mar '15

Hello Oonitarians, As discussed during the last meeting we did not gather this week because of the OpenITP festival. It was a very fruitful and interesting event, that we should update people that could not attend about. We shall therefore gather at the usual 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET, 13:00 EST, 10:00 PST) on the #ooni channel on irc.oftc.net. See you soon! ~ Arturo

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OONI Workshop/Hackfest in Valencia Wednesday 4th 2015
by Arturo Filastò 03 Mar '15

03 Mar '15

Tomorrow (Wednesday 4th of March) afternoon we are going to be having a OONI workshop/hackfest/gathering/party/antani. If you are interested in technical or non even non technical aspects connected to internet censorship/surveillance, network measurements, you are invited to join us. It will start after lunch (at 15:00) in Taller6. It is up the stairs from the entrance directly above the bar. We will meet outside at 14:30 and then head there. What we can do during the workshop are: * Make you learn what OONI is and how you can use it! * Analyze data collected so far by OONI. It's in a database and you can get a shell. * BYORPi: Bring Your Own Raspberry Pi and you will get it back with ooniprobe installed on it. * Discuss what you would like to know about censorship, that we can help you discover. * Hack on whatever excites you. World operators of any level are welcome! ~ Arturo

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