On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:55:52 -0400 Roger Dingledine arma@mit.edu wrote:
First off, let me welcome tor-dev and the world to the sausage factory of open source projects.
You should definitely put them somewhere. But be sure to retain the original text too, so we can go back and compare if we need to later.
Won't the past text and the diff be in the wiki history for the page?
All of that said, I totally agree that for #1, we need to be sure Andrew and the funder both understand that we can't promise that we'll deploy any particular transport protocol -- the first step is research, and that means step two must stay flexible.
I expect the pushback to be along the lines of "this is a deployment goal, not a research goal". If http/dns is bad, then we should figure out some way to deploy two unique transports in the wild.
Andrew is hoping to use this as an opportunity to explore "hire people who will do great work and not charge American prices". Apparently our current Farsi translator is one such person, and Andrew hopes we find more.
The language-specific support is part-time, at best.
We have four separate directions in mind for this "community manager" notion (not all funded by SponsorL, mind you):
- Relay operator coordinator. Somebody to keep relay operators happy
and in touch with us, encourage people to set up new relays, organize recommended configurations, etc. Especially important in tandem with our "network diversity" work at #6232. 2) Volunteer-developer coordinator. Somebody to take incoming volunteers and help them find good existing projects to work on. Likely involves making our volunteer page more usable. Should also include knowing enough about every project to recognize and identify good low-hanging fruit, and knowing enough about our priorities to make smart decisions. 3) Blog/forum/mailinglist coordinator, to make sure our users have useful answers, and ultimately to manage and organize the volunteers who make sure our users have useful answers. 4) Social media person, to be our face on twitter, etc.
I believe the plan is for Runa to cover #4, and for us to contract somebody in our relay operator community part-time for #1 to start. I think there is no plan for #2 and #3 yet; but I'd love it if we could get somebody part-time for #2.
Actually, we have three roles. #4 is the same as #3. Whether it's mailing list, forum, twitter, facebook, google+, whatever, the role is the same.
Runa is wondering why we want funding for languages no one has emailed us in (Spanish and French); though nobody has emailed us in Arabic, either.
We have only told people we can handle English and Farsi at this point. Once we announce others, they will come.