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Notes from March 2 2017 Vegas team meeting
by Karsten Loesing 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

Notes for March 2 2017 meeting: Alison: 1) More work on the Tor Meeting: nearly finished the gunner-style session's scheduling, working on the strategic planning plenary 2) Tor Tea Time: thinking of creating a regular communication session for community trust. 3) Support portal progress is coming along! This afternoon we have a meeting about Linda's mockup design and the next steps. 4) Finishing up the community council guidelines proposal period. Next week will be the vote. After that I will … [View More]

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meek-azure funding has run out
by David Fifield 05 Mar '17

05 Mar '17

The grant I was using to pay for meek-azure ran out at the end of 2016. It was for $10,000 and it paid for meek-azure and meek-google (until the latter was shut down) throughout 2016. I can support it personally for maybe one more month but after that I'll have to shut it down. >From these graphs you can see that meek continues to be very popular, with both backing bridges constant pushing against the rate limits we imposed to control costs. I had hoped that by now we would find a way to … [View More]

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Re: [tor-project] meek-azure funding has run out
by Nathan Freitas 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

Yes, this is a critical capability of Tor for end-users, not only in Iran and China, but any network that is starting to deploy sophisticated DPI targeted at Tor. Thanks to David, Rob, Nima and others for finding a way forward for Meek. I hope we can continue finding ways to make domain fronting economical, as well, perhaps through a community crowd source hosting effort? I am working on updating Orbot to support these new endpoints. Are they ready for production yet? +n On Fri, Mar 3, 2017,… [View More]

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Summary of meek's costs, January 2017
by David Fifield 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

Here's the summary of meek's CDN fees for January 2017. App Engine + Amazon + Azure = total by period all 2014 $600.63 + $917.89 + $0.00 = $1518.52 all 2015 $8006.59 + $8146.83 + $1292.89 = $17446.31 January 2016 $771.17 + $1581.88 + $329.10 = $2682.15 February 2016 $986.39 + $977.85 + $445.83 = $2410.07 March 2016 $1079.49 + $865.06 + $534.71 = $2479.26 April 2016 $1169.23 + $1074.25 + $508.93 = $2752.41 May 2016 $525.46 … [View More]

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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 … [View More]

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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 … [View More]

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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 … [View More]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…>. [View Less]

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Notes from February 23 2017 Vegas team meeting
by Karsten Loesing 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

Notes for February 23 2017 meeting: Georg: 1) We need to coordinate the network audit for our switch to ESR 52 <- Mike has agreed to do this by April 1 Nick: 1) Has been doing measurements with AFL for Sponsor4 to reduce directory download size. Preliminary results are promising. 2) I'm doing the 024..030 release process and bugfix stuff on my own; it's gotten a bit gnarly. Hoping for the best. Alison: 1) Lots of planning for the Tor Meeting. Will be reaching out to folks individually … [View More]about potential agenda items and intra-team meetings. 2) Tor glossary is up here for now (Colin is still working on internal linking): https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/community/glossary next step is for it to go onto the support portal. 3) UX and community teams are working on the support portal together; Alison and Linda will continue this in Seattle next week. 4) New translations have been merged into the Tor Browser manual. 5) Trainings: planning a lot of both LFP and Global South workshops right now. 6) Community council guidelines are in the discussion phase right now and will go up for a vote after next week. When that's completed, we will vote to keep the existing social contract or modify it with some of the suggestions we received from our greater community. Mike: 1) Misc. Arturo: 1) ooniprobe now support 4 languages: English, Spanish, French and Italian. New mobile app will be released tomorrow or next week. 2) Began implementing the probe orchestration system. 3) People can now join the ooni IRC channels via a slack bridge: https://slack.openobservatory.org/ Karsten: 1) Worked with Cass and iwakeh on writing a funding proposal for metrics things. 2) Released metrics-lib 1.6.0 together with iwakeh. 3) Made plans with irl for a blog post on Atlas/Onionoo usability fixes, scheduled for Monday, March 6. 4) Worked with RaBe and iwakeh on more website redesigns of CollecTor and Onionoo based on what we did for Metrics. Josh: 1) Onboarding: paperwork, read/watched much of *.torproject.org, getting accounts, etc. 2) Merged my press contacts with existing lists 3) Spoke with reporter from Fast Company, Steven Melendez (@smelendez) for upcoming story related to OTF. He previously wrote a good story about Tor and SecureDrop. 4) Learning about UAE issue (uptick in connections) and deciding how to follow-up with reporter from The Intercept. Josh to email vegas-team list with notes. 5) Putting together ideas, goals, and strategies for Seattle meeting, focusing on social media, press, community, and web site. Isabela: 1) working on digging information from july - 2014 till nov - 2016 on sponsorS for the final report - fun times! Due feb 28 2) Looking good to finish next milestone of sponsor5 (orfox work) Due feb 28 3) Working with Hiro on a survey about moving away from Trac - is not an easy mission but we are on it!. Hiro also is working with metrics and made schleuder work! which was a big pain in the ass. 4) Linda is working with support team on their new site, and making sure it goes along with the big plan of building new portals as part of tpo redesign 5) Dealing with small personnel stuff (people who worked on orfox payments etc). Trying to get some stuff prepared for the meetings in Amsterdam. Preparing for trip next week to Seattle - while in seattle will try to set up the table stuff at planetlibre [View Less]

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Fwd: GSoC 2017: Tor has been accepted as a mentor organization!
by Damian Johnson 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Woohoo! We've been accepted! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Google Summer of Code <summerofcode-noreply(a)google.com> Date: Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 9:01 AM Subject: GSoC 2017: Tor has been accepted as a mentor organization! To: atagar1(a)gmail.com [image: Google Summer of Code] Congratulations! Tor has been selected as a Google Summer of Code 2017 mentor organization. You can now invite mentors and update your organization profile. Please click here to visit your … [View More]

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Diversifying Bandwidth Measurement
by teor 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Hi Rob and bandwidth authority operators, I've just been contacted by an Exit operator whose Exits have all seen a 60% drop in traffic over the last few weeks. This drop has been caused by a drop in bandwidth authority measurements, which seems to affect Exit connections that transit to bwauth.torproject.org (cymru) through Cogent. For example, from Australia, I get about 3 MB/s to bwauth.torproject.org [0]. A relay operator in France gets 500 KB/s. This affects at least Online S.a.ss, … [View More]

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