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[tpo/develop] Update job post
by gus＠torproject.org 22 May '20

22 May '20

commit 5cba8e965e16d49179b9d45d5dc0d8c97707b010 Author: hiro <hiro(a)torproject.org> Date: Mon Feb 10 19:20:21 2020 +0100 Update job post --- content/about/jobs/executive-assistant/contents.lr | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/about/jobs/executive-assistant/contents.lr b/content/about/jobs/executive-assistant/contents.lr index 219ce62e..66b35224 100644 --- a/content/about/jobs/executive-assistant/contents.lr +++ b/content/about/jobs/executive-assistant/contents.lr @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Required Skills & Qualifications: To apply: -Please email a *PDF* of your resume/CV, and a cover letter explaining how your qualifications and experience meet the requirements of this job description. Please include the reasons why you want to work at Tor Project. +Please email a *PDF* of your resume/CV, and a cover letter explaining how your qualifications and experience meet the requirements of this job description. Please include your salary requirements and why you want to work at Tor Project. Email should be sent to hr at torproject dot org with "Executive Assistant " in the subject line. No phone calls, please.

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[tpo/develop] Add new job post
by gus＠torproject.org 22 May '20

22 May '20

commit 4d90ac726921d434a4a496d22d252c3d923ad61f Author: hiro <hiro(a)torproject.org> Date: Mon Feb 10 18:21:07 2020 +0100 Add new job post --- content/about/jobs/executive-assistant/contents.lr | 110 ++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/about/jobs/executive-assistant/contents.lr b/content/about/jobs/executive-assistant/contents.lr index 21772ed1..219ce62e 100644 --- a/content/about/jobs/executive-assistant/contents.lr +++ b/content/about/jobs/executive-assistant/contents.lr @@ -6,78 +6,100 @@ section: about --- section_id: about --- -active: False +active: True --- -title: Backend Engineer for OONI +title: Executive Assistant --- color: primary --- summary: -The Tor Project, Inc. is looking for a dedicated backend engineer to work on OONI (https://ooni.torproject.org/). OONI is the Open Observatory of Network Interference: a free and open source software, global observation network for detecting censorship, surveillance, and traffic manipulation on the internet. +The Tor Project is looking for an Executive Assistant! -You will be working to improve OONI's data processing pipeline and other backend components responsible for recording measurements collected from our growing global user network. You will also be tasked with improving our network measurement methodologies and data analysis heuristics to increase the accuracy of our experiments. +The Executive Assistant is responsible for providing high-level administrative support to the Executive Director. This position will actively manage the ED’s schedule, handle internal and external executive-level communications, and coordinate special projects and events. + +This position is full-time and remote; someone in the Eastern time zone strongly preferred. --- description: -## Backend Engineer for OONI -*January 31, 2018* +## Executive Assistant + +*February 5, 2020* + +The Tor Project is looking for an Executive Assistant! + +The Executive Assistant is responsible for providing high-level administrative support to the Executive Director. This position will actively manage the ED’s schedule, handle internal and external executive-level communications, and coordinate special projects and events. + +This position is full-time and remote; someone in the Eastern time zone strongly preferred. + +You: + +- Technology-competent and/or willing and able to learn new tools. Our team coordinates via IRC (the grandparent of Slack), email, Signal messaging app, and bug trackers, etc. + +- Have an exceptional ability to see ten steps ahead, anticipating and heading off issues before they become problems. + +- Highly skilled at prioritizing ED’s tasks and effectively communicating changing priorities on a daily basis. + +- Problem solver! Plans, strategies, and schedules change: You react quickly, are resilient, and take the initiative to find the best alternatives when these changes arise. + +- Independent: self-directed and able to get the job done; ensure the ED is on track. + +- Proactive: you take initiative in improving processes; you’re always thinking ahead. + +Job Duties: + +- Manage ED’s schedule: schedule meetings, screen for conflicts, and ensure the ED is prepared for important meetings. + +- Arrange travel, prepare expense reports, and handle other administrative tasks. + +- Head up the planning and logistics of twice-yearly organization-wide meetings. + +- Serve as proxy for ED at certain weekly meetings, take notes, and keep track of ED’s action items. + +- Develop and sustain a high level of professionalism among staff and community members. + +- Assist the ED with administering the organization’s travel policy: follow up on travel approvals and expenses and help manage the budget. + +- Assist the ED with reports, presentations, and follow ups with/for major donors and sponsors. -The Tor Project, Inc. is looking for a dedicated backend engineer to work on OONI (https://ooni.torproject.org/). OONI is the Open Observatory of Network Interference: a free and open source software, global observation network for detecting censorship, surveillance, and traffic manipulation on the internet. +Required Skills & Qualifications: -You will be working to improve OONI's data processing pipeline and other backend components responsible for recording measurements collected from our growing global user network. You will also be tasked with improving our network measurement methodologies and data analysis heuristics to increase the accuracy of our experiments. +- Be personable with strong interpersonal and oral/written communication skills; ability or willingness to learn to use various communication tools and function in an asynchronous work environment. -This is a full-time 12-month contract position, starting ASAP (no later than mid-May 2019); contract may be extended. +- Uphold a strict level of confidentiality. -The OONI team is based in Europe. However, this position may be performed remotely. +- Maintain a high level of attention to detail and accuracy. -Here are some of our code repositories: +- Ability to manage multiple tasks, re-prioritize on a daily basis, and meet deadlines. - https://github.com/ooni/api - https://github.com/ooni/pipeline - https://github.com/ooni/orchestra - https://github.com/ooni/collector - https://github.com/ooni/sysadmin +- Be highly organized with exceptional planning skills. -**Required skills and qualifications:** +- Able to work both independently and in a collaborative environment. - - Extensive experience in python or golang. - - Comfortable working remotely. - - Self-directed, self-disciplined, but good at working and communicating with a team. - - Have experience and be comfortable with others reviewing your code and design; have experience and be comfortable reviewing others' code. - - Experience documenting and designing protocols. - - Be comfortable with transparency! +- Ability to track and monitor travel budget spending at the org level. -**Preferred qualifications:** +- Willingness to try new methods, apps, and/or technology. - Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable complex network applications. - Working experience with data processing pipelines. - Possess the confidence to refactor code and write unit-tests. - Familiarity with the challenges of developing and scaling data processing pipelines. - Familiarity with the network measurement field. - Experience with open-source software development, including working with distributed teams across different time-zones containing employees and volunteers of differing skill levels. - Basic familiarity with distributed version control systems. - Contributed significant chunks of code to multiple open-source projects in the past. - Be passionate about internet freedom and interested in contributing to it in a concrete way! +- Take initiative in completing assignments, solving problems, and seeking solutions. -**Other notes:** +- 3 to 5 years experience as Executive Assistant or similar roles. -Academic degrees are great but not required if you have the right experience. +- An interest in free and open source software and/or internet freedom is a bonus but not required. -You should be very good at working remotely at communicating with the team on a daily basis via Slack, IRC, instant messaging, email, and issue trackers. +To apply: -Salary negotiable. +Please email a *PDF* of your resume/CV, and a cover letter explaining how your qualifications and experience meet the requirements of this job description. Please include the reasons why you want to work at Tor Project. -**How to apply:** +Email should be sent to hr at torproject dot org with "Executive Assistant " in the subject line. No phone calls, please. -Please email a *PDF* of your resume/CV, and a cover letter explaining how your qualifications and experience meet the requirements of this job description. Please include the reasons why you want to work on OONI. Please also include link to one or several code samples (of which you are authorized to share), and also your GitHub or GitLab profile, and three professional references. +Other notes: -Email should be sent to jobs at openobservatory dot org with "OONI Backend Engineer" in the subject line. +We offer a competitive benefits package, including a generous PTO policy; 14 paid holidays per year (including the week between Christmas and New Year's, when the office is closed); health, vision, dental, disability, and life insurance; flexible work schedule; and occasional travel opportunities. -**About the project:** +The Tor Project, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) organization headquartered in Seattle with paid staff and contractors of around 40 engineers and operational support people, plus many volunteers all over the world. Tor develops free and open source software for privacy and freedom online, protecting people from tracking, surveillance, and censorship. -The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) is a free software project under the Tor Project. OONI collects and processes network measurements with the aim of detecting network interferences, such as censorship, surveillance, and traffic manipulation. Since late 2012, OONI has collected millions of measurements across more than 90 countries around the world. +The Tor Project's mission is to advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies, support their unrestricted availability and use, and further their scientific and popular understanding. -The Tor Project, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) organization headquartered in Seattle with paid staff and contractors of around 45 engineers and operational support people, plus many volunteers all over the world. Tor develops free and open source software for privacy and freedom online, protecting people from tracking, surveillance, and censorship. The Tor Project is funded in part by government grants and contracts, as well as by individual, foundation, and corporate donations. The Tor Project's mission is to advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies, support their unrestricted availability and use, and further their scientific and popular understanding. +We are committed to creating and maintaining a diverse and safe environment, and we are committed to our Social Contract, Membership Values, and our Code of Conduct. -The Tor Project, Inc., is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. +The Tor Project, Inc., is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. We strongly encourage everyone to apply to this position without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, or age.

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[tpo/develop] Update lego
by gus＠torproject.org 22 May '20

22 May '20

commit 86bc2f555cec76be39573cf47a320d5e4fc12048 Author: hiro <hiro(a)torproject.org> Date: Mon Feb 10 15:46:30 2020 +0100 Update lego --- lego | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lego b/lego index e058aee7..e9dd0810 160000 --- a/lego +++ b/lego @@ -1 +1 @@ -Subproject commit e058aee7e40a97434ddbffbb1d5ffe18a610076b +Subproject commit e9dd081027132aa21f6abd74be708323ff3b9180

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[tpo/develop] Remove 9.0.4 from RecommendedTBBVersions
by gus＠torproject.org 22 May '20

22 May '20

commit 696575e435b7af06e0f36d53cc9518144741d438 Author: Nicolas Vigier <boklm(a)torproject.org> Date: Fri Feb 14 17:50:37 2020 +0100 Remove 9.0.4 from RecommendedTBBVersions --- content/projects/torbrowser/RecommendedTBBVersions/contents.lr | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/projects/torbrowser/RecommendedTBBVersions/contents.lr b/content/projects/torbrowser/RecommendedTBBVersions/contents.lr index fba56561..9f151020 100644 --- a/content/projects/torbrowser/RecommendedTBBVersions/contents.lr +++ b/content/projects/torbrowser/RecommendedTBBVersions/contents.lr @@ -5,10 +5,6 @@ _template: empty.html body: [ -"9.0.4", -"9.0.4-MacOS", -"9.0.4-Linux", -"9.0.4-Windows", "9.0.5", "9.0.5-MacOS", "9.0.5-Linux",

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[tpo/develop] Include a changelog link for alpha Tor source releases.
by gus＠torproject.org 22 May '20

22 May '20

commit e0478c6df6ede257b8d163736906d62c23adf1db Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm(a)torproject.org> Date: Mon Feb 10 20:02:22 2020 -0500 Include a changelog link for alpha Tor source releases. This is all cut-and-paste on my part; I do not claim to actually know Lektor. ;) --- templates/download-tor.html | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/templates/download-tor.html b/templates/download-tor.html index 546bf719..c4e689b5 100644 --- a/templates/download-tor.html +++ b/templates/download-tor.html @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ {% set a = bag('versions', 'tor-alpha') %} {% set download_link = 'https://dist.torproject.org/tor-' + t.version + '.tar.gz' %} {% set changelog_link = 'https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/plain/ChangeLog?h=tor-' + t.version %} + {% set alpha_changelog_link = 'https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/plain/ChangeLog?h=tor-' + a.version %} {% set sig_link = download_link + '.asc' %} {% set alpha_download_link = 'https://dist.torproject.org/tor-' + a.version + '.tar.gz' %} {% set alpha_sig_link = alpha_download_link + '.asc' %} @@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ {% if t.version != a.version %} <tr> <td>{{ a.version }}</td> + <td><a href="{{ alpha_changelog_link }}">{{ _('Changelog') }}</a></td> <td class="text-right"><a href="{{ alpha_download_link }}">{{ _('Download') }}</a> (<a href="{{ alpha_sig_link }}">{{ _('sig') }}</a>)</td> </tr> {% endif %}

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[tpo/develop] Add new Tor Browser version: 9.0.5
by gus＠torproject.org 22 May '20

22 May '20

commit e438d061c422e8e864af2fa478e96a2c9de89ec4 Author: Nicolas Vigier <boklm(a)torproject.org> Date: Wed Feb 12 12:11:29 2020 +0100 Add new Tor Browser version: 9.0.5 --- content/projects/torbrowser/RecommendedTBBVersions/contents.lr | 4 ++++ databags/versions.ini | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/projects/torbrowser/RecommendedTBBVersions/contents.lr b/content/projects/torbrowser/RecommendedTBBVersions/contents.lr index 2076637e..fba56561 100644 --- a/content/projects/torbrowser/RecommendedTBBVersions/contents.lr +++ b/content/projects/torbrowser/RecommendedTBBVersions/contents.lr @@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ body: "9.0.4-MacOS", "9.0.4-Linux", "9.0.4-Windows", +"9.0.5", +"9.0.5-MacOS", +"9.0.5-Linux", +"9.0.5-Windows", "9.5a4", "9.5a4-MacOS", "9.5a4-Linux", diff --git a/databags/versions.ini b/databags/versions.ini index c49b079c..8e0c1fa2 100644 --- a/databags/versions.ini +++ b/databags/versions.ini @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ [torbrowser-stable] -version = 9.0.4 -win32 = 0.4.2.5 +version = 9.0.5 +win32 = 0.4.2.6 [torbrowser-alpha] version = 9.5a4

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[tpo/develop] Add new Tor Browser version 9.5a5
by gus＠torproject.org 22 May '20

22 May '20

commit 158e54ee0022d6de61e1dbb8e7053307b1745c0f Author: Matthew Finkel <Matthew.Finkel(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri Feb 14 20:31:28 2020 +0000 Add new Tor Browser version 9.5a5 --- content/projects/torbrowser/RecommendedTBBVersions/contents.lr | 6 +++++- databags/versions.ini | 2 +- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/projects/torbrowser/RecommendedTBBVersions/contents.lr b/content/projects/torbrowser/RecommendedTBBVersions/contents.lr index 9f151020..8ef833c7 100644 --- a/content/projects/torbrowser/RecommendedTBBVersions/contents.lr +++ b/content/projects/torbrowser/RecommendedTBBVersions/contents.lr @@ -12,5 +12,9 @@ body: "9.5a4", "9.5a4-MacOS", "9.5a4-Linux", -"9.5a4-Windows" +"9.5a4-Windows", +"9.5a5", +"9.5a5-MacOS", +"9.5a5-Linux", +"9.5a5-Windows" ] diff --git a/databags/versions.ini b/databags/versions.ini index 8e0c1fa2..11150520 100644 --- a/databags/versions.ini +++ b/databags/versions.ini @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ version = 9.0.5 win32 = 0.4.2.6 [torbrowser-alpha] -version = 9.5a4 +version = 9.5a5 [tor-stable] version = 0.4.2.6

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[tpo/develop] Remove 9.5a3 from RecommendedTBBVersions
by gus＠torproject.org 22 May '20

22 May '20

commit 5fa714432849a87615c72e749bedd6cdc45df86d Author: Nicolas Vigier <boklm(a)torproject.org> Date: Tue Feb 11 10:29:28 2020 +0100 Remove 9.5a3 from RecommendedTBBVersions --- content/projects/torbrowser/RecommendedTBBVersions/contents.lr | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/projects/torbrowser/RecommendedTBBVersions/contents.lr b/content/projects/torbrowser/RecommendedTBBVersions/contents.lr index 179ac0d6..2076637e 100644 --- a/content/projects/torbrowser/RecommendedTBBVersions/contents.lr +++ b/content/projects/torbrowser/RecommendedTBBVersions/contents.lr @@ -9,10 +9,6 @@ body: "9.0.4-MacOS", "9.0.4-Linux", "9.0.4-Windows", -"9.5a3", -"9.5a3-MacOS", -"9.5a3-Linux", -"9.5a3-Windows", "9.5a4", "9.5a4-MacOS", "9.5a4-Linux",

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[tpo/develop] Added zcash as a sponsor
by gus＠torproject.org 22 May '20

22 May '20

commit c07c68ec640e2083bb58feadfa59ef71b5f08f7d Author: Bekeela Davila <bekeela(a)torproject.org> Date: Wed Feb 12 19:44:20 2020 +0000 Added zcash as a sponsor --- content/about/sponsors/Zcash/content.lr | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/content/about/sponsors/Zcash/content.lr b/content/about/sponsors/Zcash/content.lr new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6ded492b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/about/sponsors/Zcash/content.lr @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +_model: sponsor +--- +active: true +--- +time: 2020 +--- +name: Zcash Foundation +--- +key: 20 +--- +logo: +--- +_hidden: yes +--- +link: https://zfnd.org/ +--- +description: + +The Zcash Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that focuses on financial privacy. Their mission is to build internet payment and privacy infrastructure for the public good. They serve the users of the Zcash protocol and blockchain. The Foundation also supports other applications of zero-knowledge cryptography, as well as other approaches to private cryptocurrency. This project is to change Tor’s design to accommodate spikes in users & +third-party implementations.

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[tpo/develop] Update contents.lr
by gus＠torproject.org 22 May '20

22 May '20

commit 17aa623f5e3c2dbe0d9dfcc99f76398c3a589a90 Author: Bekeela Davila <bekeela(a)torproject.org> Date: Wed Feb 12 19:37:44 2020 +0000 Update contents.lr --- content/about/sponsors/nsf-georgetown/contents.lr | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/about/sponsors/nsf-georgetown/contents.lr b/content/about/sponsors/nsf-georgetown/contents.lr index aa558dd1..8e581934 100644 --- a/content/about/sponsors/nsf-georgetown/contents.lr +++ b/content/about/sponsors/nsf-georgetown/contents.lr @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ time: 2015 - 2020 --- name: National Science Foundation via Georgetown --- -key: 09 +key: 19 --- logo: /static/images/sponsors/Georgetown_logotype_S_blueRGB.png ---

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