June 2018 - tor-community-team - lists.torproject.org

support portal feedback
by Alison Macrina 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

Hi everyone, I've attached a txt file with some feedback about the support portal. Some of it is about things that aren't working, and some are suggested edits to the q&a templates. Something I have yet to do is test the whole thing using new Tor Browser 8.0 features. I will be reaching out to Gus soon to work on that together. -- Alison Macrina Community Team Lead The Tor Project

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Cygwin dirmngr and Tor Browser for Windows
by john doe 30 Jun '18

30 Jun '18

Hi, I'm trying to use Cygwin dirmngr to use "Tor Browser for Windows".: https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-June/060736.html I got as far as finding a way to get it working by starting "Tor Browser\Browser\TorBrowser\Tor\tor.exe" then dirmngr is working through Tor. Strangely, if I click "Tor Browser\Start Tor Browser" it does not work; dirmngr failed at the following step: $ dirmngr --homedir ~/try --use-tor -vvv --debug-all --server OK Dirmngr 2.2.8-unknown at your service KS_GET -- 0x6C6ACD6417B3ACB1 dirmngr[6496.0]: DBG: chan_3 <- KS_GET -- 0x6C6ACD6417B3ACB1 dirmngr[6496.0]: DBG: dns: libdns initialized (tor mode) dirmngr[6496.0]: DBG: dns: getsrv(_pgpkey-https._tcp.hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net): Server indicated a failure dirmngr[6496.0]: command 'KS_GET' failed: Server indicated a failure <Unspecified source> dirmngr[6496.0]: DBG: chan_3 -> ERR 219 Server indicated a failure <Unspecified source> ERR 219 Server indicated a failure <Unspecified source> It looks like dirmngr can't connect to tor when tor is started by doing "Tor Browser\Browser\firefox.exe". Given the above I have some questions: 1) Any idea why dirmngr can't connect to Tor when started the usual way? 2) What are the difference between starting "tor.exe" and "firefox.exe"? Any help/hints is appriciated. -- John Doe

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Building Community in Southern Europe
by Kevin Gallagher 29 Jun '18

29 Jun '18

Hello everyone, Sorry I haven't been around for community meetings. These past few weeks have been a bit busy. Soon I'm going to be heading over to Portugal, and I'll also spend some time in Spain. I'll be there for the whole summer. I remember that after one of our NYC meetings we discussed that the (known) Tor community in southern Europe is quite small. While I'm there I'd like to try to build it up and get the people there more involved (if that's fine with TPO). So far I reached out and set up a meeting with one university student who is interested in Internet freedom and privacy, but I'd rather not put all of my eggs into one basket. Are there any tips about how I should go about trying to build up a community while I'm there? Any places that typically work in community building efforts (libraries, schools, etc.), especially for meeting space? I'd love any tips on how I should approach this. Thanks, Kevin -- Kevin Gallagher Ph.D. Candidate Center For Cybersecurity NYU Tandon School of Engineering Key Fingerprint: D02B 25CB 0F7D E276 06C3 BF08 53E4 C50F 8247 4861

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new meeting time!
by Alison Macrina 27 Jun '18

27 Jun '18

Hi all, Based on the feedback we got in our recent Dudle poll, we're moving the community team meetings to 1600 UTC on Mondays. I've updated the trac page. See you this Monday at 1600 UTC!!! Updated trac page: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/CommunityTeam#Commu… -- Alison Macrina Community Team Lead The Tor Project

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Soft-launch of support.torproject.org [call for translation help!]
by isabela 26 Jun '18

26 Jun '18

Hello Tor community! We are very happy to say we now have a support website[1]! This is a soft-launch because the site is not yet full translated. That is why we are not doing a big announcement yet (eg blog post). We would like to do a soft-lauch of the site so the community knows about it and we can get some help translating it to at least our tier 1 languages [2]. At the moment our site is only translated to Spanish and French. If you would like to help us with translation please check out our wiki page explaining the necessary steps to do so [3]. If you encounter any issues please let us know. Soon (in July!) we will have our new Localization Project Coordinator and they will be a person fully dedicated to help our translators community help us! But till then asking for help here on this list might be the best way for us to help you :) This is the first site we are launching as part of our 'website redesign' project[4] and we are looking forward to have it fully translated so we can share it with the world! Thank you in advance! cheers, isabela ps: if you have feedback about the site please use one of these methods to let us know: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/community/HowToReportBugF… [1] https://support.torproject.org/ [2] Tier 1 languages are: * English - EN * Farsi - FA * Spanish - ES * Russian - RU * Simplified Chinese - zh-CN * Portuguese - PT-BR * French - FR * German - DE * Korean - KO * Turkish - TR * Italian - IT * Arabic - AR More about it here: https://storm.torproject.org/shared/3aNRznZVvHBq3w4EhQRo3-H7lNHEPhNgo0x-9WL… [3] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/translation/Introduction#… [4] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21222

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Dudle poll and today's meeting
by Alison Macrina 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

Hi everyone, Just a reminder that we're meeting today at our usual place in time. I also wanted to boost the Dudle poll for a new meeting time again! https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/new_community_team_time_/ (please remember to ignore the dates on the poll -- we're just looking at the best times and days of the week for all future meetings) see you in a few hours! -- Alison Macrina Director Library Freedom Project

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Wikipedia page review
by Celeste S. [jaruga] 14 Jun '18

14 Jun '18

Hello folks! Hope everyone has had a fantastic beginning to the week. I recently reviewed the English Tor Wikipedia page as per our conversation at the last meeting. All and all, it was accurate; there were probably some parts that were understated and others that were overstated, but there was nothing too glaring. I'm not sure who will be dealing with the changes, but I can chat with them as well if further information is needed. I did have a few suggestions, though they mostly pertain to formatting and elaborating on existing content: 1. 'Tor Browser' header could use a more concise explanation and feature list 2. 'Third party applications' subheader could use some loving as you can see 3. 'Levels of Security' header - why is this a million miles below the browser section? Could use revisions as well 4. 'Tor Messenger' bar should be removed - as it's no longer current or reccomended, it would be better to not showcase it any longer. If anyone had opinions or additions to this list feel free to mention them! Thanks a lot, see you all tomorrow. 😊 -- jaruga

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draft list of roadmap tasks
by Alison Macrina 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

Hi all! I have a roadmap task list draft here: https://storm.torproject.org/shared/W8Gdeui8rQ7MshSqsWFJuEOdXEW341KtdUCH_cC… Please take a look and add what's missing. It's mainly stuff that I'm working on and stuff that I know Colin and Gus are working on. If I left out something you're working on, it's nothing personal! It's just that I didn't have a list of your tasks handy. If one of the tasks is something you're working on, please add your name next to it (I haven't done this at all yet). Once we have a good list of all that we want to accomplish through October, I will clean it up and add more of a narrative to the top. We can chat about this some more in the meeting today in 10 minutes! -- Alison Macrina Community Team Lead The Tor Project

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meeting this Wednesday at 2000 UTC in #tor-meeting
by Alison Macrina 11 Jun '18

11 Jun '18

Hi all, We'll have our regular weekly community team meeting on Wednesday June 13 at 2000 UTC in #tor-meeting. We will spend the hour covering community team updates. Here's some other stuff to be thinking about: - I'll send a draft of the roadmap (through the end of September) hopefully in time for the meeting so we can discuss - I know that we changed the community team meeting time relatively recently, but right after we did I heard from a few people who said the new time doesn't work for them. So here's a poll to try again: https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/new_community_team_time_/ (this is the last time we'll try for a while!). All times in UTC. See you Wednesday! -- Alison Macrina Community Team Lead The Tor Project

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meeting Wednesday at 2000 UTC
by Alison Macrina 04 Jun '18

04 Jun '18

hi all! we'll have our regular meeting this week on Wednesday the 6th at 2000 UTC in #tor-meeting please note that we're meeting weekly now! come ready to talk about your updates. see you there! -- Alison Macrina Community Team Lead The Tor Project

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