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August 2017 report for the metrics team
by Karsten Loesing 01 Sep '17

01 Sep '17

Hello Tor, hello world! Below you'll find the highlights of Tor metrics team work done in August 2017. On behalf of the Tor metrics team, Karsten Published a blog post [1] summarizing achievements made in the past 12 months with support of Mozilla's Open Source Support (MOSS) program. [1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/we-enhanced-security-and-integrity-tor-met… Formalized the steps for sanitizing bridge descriptors [2] that are collected and published by CollecTor. [2] https://metrics.torproject.org/bridge-descriptors.html Released Onionoo releases 4.0-1.3.0 [3], 4.1-1.4.0, and 4.1-1.4.1 [4] which add a new "version" parameter, remove bridge clients objects' beta fields "countries", "transports", and "versions", contain configuration improvements, and update dependencies. [3] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-August/012387.html [4] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-August/012433.html Released CollecTor 1.2.1 [5] with a fix for handling bridge network statuses containing zero entries. [5] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-August/012402.html

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August 2017 TC Report
by Tommy Collison 01 Sep '17

01 Sep '17

Quick report on what I got up to in August. Renaming this from "Grants Report" to "TC Report" because sometimes I do things that aren't grants. Grants: - Got awarded a grant from OTF. - Got awarded a grant from MDF. - Submitted a (different) grant to OTF. - Submitted a grant to Knight Foundation. - Drafted a letter of inquiry for Tor outreach funding but haven't sent anywhere yet. - Researched other funding sources. Comms: - Published a blog post about Tor Browser downloads. [1] - Edited a blog post about our MOSS final report. [2] - Edited an upcoming blog post about Orfox updates for Isa. - Added some copy to our statement on racists being bad [3] and dealt with the fall-out on the twitterz. - Worked with Steph on a blog calendar so that we post something at least once a week. Misc: - Voted on our membership guidelines -- you should too! - Put all of my New York apartment things in a box and then, a week and 2,865 miles later, unpacked them all in a different apartment in Seattle. All of the movers asked "Microsoft or Boeing?" and so I got to tell them about Tor. Anything that should be on my radar? TC [1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-downloads-2017 [2] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/we-enhanced-security-and-integrity-tor-met… [3] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-project-defends-human-rights-racists-o…

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UX team August summary
by Linda Naeun Lee 01 Sep '17

01 Sep '17

Hi all, Qe finalized the design and copy of Tor launcher (#23261 <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23261>). You can see the final version, version 8, mocked up here <https://marvelapp.com/3f6102d>. Mark built a working prototype of this new design, and we're getting ready to push changes. I'm personally very excited for this new version of Tor launcher. It's more clear on what options to choose, shows all the network settings on one screen, and communicates more succinctly. We finished three iterations of the Onion Browser branding survey, which aims to quantify how likely they will pick Onion Browser from an app store of browsers that claim to be affiliated with Tor, and what they would find more helpful in signaling the recommendation for Onion Browser and Tor. The next steps are to host the survey ourselves (so we don't rely on a third party collecting user information), and run the survey! We hypothesize that the takeaway will be "okay, no one knows Onion Browser was the recommended one," but are interested in verification, quantification, and use thought processes. We've settled into a rhythm of triaging tickets and getting new tasks to do each week, and using our weekly team meeting to talk about one of our big projects with other teams' members. Now that we're doing this, we feel like we can better be that internal service to other teams at Tor. Not to mention that it feels more productive. Cheers, Linda N. Lee Current Key: https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?search=lindanaeunlee GPG Fingerprint: FA0A C9BE 2881 B347 9F4F C0D7 BE70 F826 5ED2 8FA2

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Notes from August 31 2017 Vegas team meeting
by Karsten Loesing 01 Sep '17

01 Sep '17

Notes for August 31 2017 meeting: Roger: 0) I'm back from the crazy travel. For a bit. Do you have anything to add to my TODO list? 1) NSF report marathon update: Three reports are in and approved! One is due in two days but technically it's not ours to write. The fifth is due in a month and is on track. 2) SponsorR is ending real soon now. We should wrap up and invoice them. 3) My future hobby: getting the network team to adopt bwauth 4) Capture The Onion contest, and Tor Village at Defcon next year 5) I've been playing 34c3 ticket fairy. Do you need one? Does anybody on your team? 6) Next week I go to NYC to work on website stuff, and Seattle 7) In mid Sept, I might be on a Tor Hidden Services panel in Baltimore 8) In Oct, I'm on a "National Priorities in Computing Research" panel in DC 9) I started trying to find a time to visit SIDA. Maybe I'll try to bring Alison. Georg: 1) We finished the hiring process for the Tor Browser team (there will be a new team member starting mid-September) and are starting to go over applications for the mobile browser position. 2) Work on a new stable release and Sponsor 4 is ongoing. 3) I wrestled with getting a bug bounty paid out. Do we want to have bug bounty related Tor swag? (Hint: I think "yes") If so, how do we get that project going? Isabela: 1) last week - sponsor4 - got deliverable completion reports for TB out for invoices - ux - worked with linda on planning for the upcoming weeks of work, helped with onion browser survey. worked with tommy on designer grant proposal - met with drl for project kick off - homework for me from this meeting is to review M&E of sponsor 8 and communicate with the team what the expections are for this first quarter of project 2) this week - sponsor4 writing network team deliverable completion report for us to invoice - ux - shipped designer grant proposal got to a good version with onion browser survey preparing ticket to move it to hiro to build it. found a place (with arma help) for us to meet in NYC next week and work on the website redesign - also do prep work for this meeting. - writing blog post about orfox work and our focus on mobile 3) brazil update - the brazukas want to write a report on the state of relays in brazuka land Steph: 1) Helped launch OONI Cuba report, edited post, shared, contacted media. 2) Working on Onion Browser survey with UX team 3) Got proposals from 2 possible speaker trainers for Oct 14 half day Montreal training, decision likely next week when Shari is back 4) Working w Isa on Orfox blog post to be published next week. Planning other content w Tommy. 5) Fundraising campaign on hold after 2 meetings. Arturo: 1) We published a report on internet censorship in Cuba: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/cuba-internet-censorship-2017/. It was covered by Amnesty (https://medium.com/amnesty-insights/cubas-internet-paradox-776213c8ddb0) Motherboard (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbbjxm/here-are-the-41-websites-…, was happy to see they used one of our charts in their article featuring the OONI logo) and more to come. 2) Started to convert the style guide Elio made (https://github.com/OpenObservatory/design/issues/3) into a "Living Style Guide" (https://github.com/OpenObservatory/design/pull/4) http://openobservatory.github.io/design/ 3) Seems like we have mostly sorted out the design issues related to securing our probe orchestration system. See: https://github.com/TheTorProject/proteus/issues/24, https://github.com/TheTorProject/proteus/issues/26, https://github.com/TheTorProject/proteus/issues/27. Alison: 1) LFP won about $250,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services!!!!!! 2) The membership guidelines are finally out for a vote! Go vote! 3) LFP is getting a website and logo redesign. 4) Tor meeting agenda: I didn't get a ton of responses. Should we put out another call for agenda items? [Isabela: I think we will get more responses once we share a draft, seeing others ideas help ppl think of what is missing or what to suggest] 5) I may meet up with Roger today to talk about getting more global coverage for the speakers bureau. Karsten: 1) Released Onionoo protocol version 4.1 which adds a "version" parameter and removes bridge clients objects' beta fields "countries", "transports", and "versions". 2) Planning to have a team meeting in the last week of September in Berlin and bring results/questions to Montreal two weeks later.

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