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Damian's Status Report - February 2017
by Damian Johnson 03 Mar '17

03 Mar '17

Jury duty this month, but that was more than made up for with tasty, tasty pizza - thank you Shari! February had lots of great stuff. ============================================================ Google Summer of Code ============================================================ We have been accepted! https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-google-summer-code-2017 Got a project to pitch? It's not too late! Students are already rolling into irc so if you want to mentor this summer the sooner you let me know the better. ============================================================ Community Council ============================================================ Tag teaming with Alison on a formal proposal for our community council. Initial council attempt hit some potholes but I'm glad for it since it's given us a much better idea of what we want the council to become. Fingers crossed that it's successful! ============================================================ Besides this just a handful of Stem changes... * Patrick migrated our cryptographic descriptor validation from pycrypto (which is unmaintained) to cryptography. (#21086) * Further sped up our tests. Unit and integ tests now run 15% faster, and @only_run_once is fixed so the 'RUN_ALL' target is dramatically faster. * Corrected unesacaping of controller responses. Thansk to this authentication cookies with non-English characters in their path now work. See ya all in Amsterdam! PS. Swapping from tor-reports@ to tor-project@ for this because we're likely gonna be merging the former into this list.

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Increasing number of nodes and worrying about going past 6%
by John Ricketts 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

All, Long time no see since Seattle, it was a pleasure to meet those that were there! Ok, so I opened a second data center with Hurricane Electric and I just got a second peering feed from Level3 at that facility so I would have a full IPv6 table. Getting 10GE from HE and 1GE from Level 3. I'm going to add IPv6 to all of my current 30 nodes. I'm pushing approximately 2% of exit probability and growing. I intend to add another 30 nodes in the next two months, and add yet another datacenter in Dallas, TX. My target 6% will all coming from the same AS 62744, I have two /24 and a /22. If I reach 6% of global exit probability should I stop? I know we had those discussions with the others at the meeting in Seattle but I want to make sure my ability to get 6% or more will not hurt the integrity of Tor. Some told me to build it and some had some hesitation. Also, I am going to re-offer my facilities for experimental DirAuths or any other stuff that you all want to test. I'd like your advice and thoughts on my plans. I want to become the largest exit operator in North America without becoming a risk to Tor or others using it. Sincerely, John L. Ricketts, PhD Quintex Alliance Consulting (325) 262-3488

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Fwd: Support computer-user freedom by exhibiting at LibrePlanet 2017 again
by Moritz Bartl 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

tl;dr: LibrePlanet wants us back with a booth. Since Tor was put on FSF's High Priority List (since Richard uses it now I hear?) very recently, this sounds like a good idea. https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-announces-a-major-overhaul-of-free-software-hi… Anyone? -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Support computer-user freedom by exhibiting at LibrePlanet 2017 again Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2017 15:05:48 -0500 Dear Moritz, Thank you very much for supporting us through the exhibit hall at LibrePlanet in 2014! Over the past 8 years, **LibrePlanet** (<https://www.libreplanet.org/2017>) has become a prominent free software conference for a vibrant, diverse community of developers, policy experts, activists, students, and users who care about the intersection of technology, education, and user freedom. With past keynote speakers including **Edward Snowden**, **Sue Gardner** (Wikimedia Foundation), and **Allison Randal** (Open Source Initiative), LibrePlanet is a banner event with 400 attendees and thousands more watching conference sessions online. It is also one of the only technology conferences to run its infrastructure entirely on free software. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Student Information Processing Board are working hard organizing **LibrePlanet 2017: The Roots of Freedom -- Saturday and Sunday, March 25 and 26, 2017 at the MIT Stata Center**. This year will feature keynote speakers **Cory Doctorow** (author, activist, and co-editor of boingboing.net) **Kade Crockford** (ACLU Massachusetts), **Sumana Harihareswara** (Changeset Consulting), and **Richard Stallman** (FSF founder and president). The conference is funded and staffed by the Free Software Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity, and we need your support. **Will you join us at LibrePlanet 2017 as an exhibitor again?** Exhibiting at LibrePlanet will ensure Tor: - has an exhibitor table in our lively, centrally located hall, - is listed in the program book and on the event website as an exhibitor, - receives 2 registrations for all conference events. LibrePlanet could not happen without the contributions of donors, sponsors, and exhibitors. In addition to other logistics, sponsors and exhibitors fund gratis admission for all students and travel/lodging scholarships to help speakers and students who would not be able to make it otherwise. Last year, we received 37 applications for scholarships and were able to fulfill 10. This year, we hope to do even more with your support. You can be confident in our financial stewardship and responsible use of resources -- the FSF has been in operation for over 30 years, and we have the highest rating possible on Charity Navigator (4 stars). LibrePlanet offers tremendous visibility, allowing you to showcase your support of free software to users, developers, and potential employees. While everything you do may not be free software, it is likely that a substantial portion of your organization relies on it. Sponsoring is a great way to give back and support the community that continues to make and improve the pool of software available to you. Conference sponsors and exhibitors are able to engage all the attendees and organization representatives at the two-day event, thousands of viewers who watch online, the FSF's 4,000 members and 130,000+ subscribers, and nearly 20 million unique web visitors who visit fsf.org, libreplanet.org, and gnu.org each year. You can find more information on LibrePlanet sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities at <https://libreplanet.org/2017/sponsors/>. We would love for Tor to be part of the exhibit hall again. If you are interested, please let me know at <membership(a)fsf.org> by March 5th. Thank you again for supporting our work to promote, protect, and develop free software. Sincerely, j. -- Jeanne Rasata Program Assistant Free Software Foundation GnuPG Key: F24B 3F64 31A1 90D6 1CCC 0394 E8FD 48A0 DE0D C371 P.S.: Check out this short video about LibrePlanet, made with free software: <https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/libreplanet-2016-fork-the-sys…>.

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