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Learning how to give talks & getting practice
by Griffin Boyce 20 Oct '16

20 Oct '16

This was originally sent to tor-meeting@, but is being forwarded here by request. Hope it is useful! =) -------- Original Message -------- Hi all, At the meeting, there was a discussion on how people can learn how to give talks -- particularly if they have some experience but want to refine their skills a bit. I'm not sure if there was a proper report-back on it, but here are some suggestions on getting experience: 1) Join Toastmasters or similar clubs Toastmasters costs money ($128/year in Boston), but there are lots of similar clubs on Meetup and around universities that don't cost anything and are a great way to get over fear of speaking and get feedback on technique. 2) Prepare and give a talk to your cat Or by yourself. Presenting your talk to yourself (out loud) is a great way to figure out what works and what doesn't, or what passages just need more work. It's also good to do this before giving a proper talk -- not just for practice, but also to make sure that your talk is within time limits. 3) Give talks at small events that aren't recorded Presenting a lightning talk at a hackerspace or small conferences can be a low-stress way to get experience. 4) Hard Mode Give talks that *are* recorded, and pick apart your performance later by watching that talk on YouTube. I wouldn't say I *recommend* this, but have definitely done it ;P MOAR TIPS: http://web.mit.edu/urop/resources/speaking.html https://www.toastmasters.org/Resources/Public-Speaking-Tips -- Accept what you cannot change, and change what you cannot accept. PGP: 0x03cf4a0ab3c79a63

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Notes from October 17th Community Team Meeting
by Yidhra Kthanid 20 Oct '16

20 Oct '16

Notes are at https://storm.torproject.org/grain/Xyq4zgG9PZop5SxaG8yPoj # Glossary * Work has been done on glossary in the last few weeks https://storm.torproject.org/shared/wjpmSOq0ku3zZEppCdPV_xXr4mXPxjKvIH3PUyx… * Almost done, needs reviewing * Should try to make less jargony and easier to understand # Support desk stopgap efforts * support.torproject.org is in the works, RT help desk being disabled * Help desk getting too many requests, but now all users emails execdir@ for help * Support messages being forwarded to a mailing list staffed by Phoul + flexlibris * Only meant to be a temporary stopgap * No current timeline on the portal # Tor browser manual progress * Manual has been edited * Ready apart from a few screenshots that have to be retaken * Next steps are publishing blog post and opening up translations # What we need help with * Support portal templates (some out of date, some unfriendly, and some not covered)! # T-Shirt update * Jon has processes in place and want to see if he can keep up on his own - doesn't want help * Don't want to start sending emails about tshirts while not being able to keep up with backlog * Not 100% on size of backlog - maybe hundreds? * Emails operators to say that we're working on backlog and thinking of other stuff * Possibility of automating (enter fingerprint to check eligibility) * Automatically sending emails to eligible operators. * Possibility of editing the Tor Weather code to do this * Handing out tshirts at 33C3/other cons to people who don't wish to give address - ask arma2 -- pgp: 0xBD26F0F8029825DD

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Notes from October 13 2016 Vegas team meeting
by Karsten Loesing 17 Oct '16

17 Oct '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 See this posting for context: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-April/000223.html Notes for October 13 2016 meeting: Georg: 1) Worked on the upcoming proposal for OTF 2) SponsorU items 3) Whom do we plan to have on stage for a possible 33c3 talk? 4) Helped a bit with the meeting with the frontend dev for the security slider port to Orfox Nick: 1) Very soon, 0.2.9 will be in testing. We will need it tested! Isabela will send out requests and appeals. Please help! 2) Not much else to report. Kate: 1) Following up on multiple articles in progress about Tor (good news articles). 2) Following up on Seattle meeting action items 3) Holiday plan for teaching family and other totally nontechnical people about Tor (Each one teach five). 4) Sent Q and A to reporter who is covering trump and uses SecureDrop. 5) Tweaking Wendy's privacy op-ed. 6) Met with reporter and all he wanted to talk about was fixing Tor Messenger bug b/c he loves Tor Messenger. Mike: 1) The blog is being converted. Performing complicated comment merge+extraction will cost more $$. Do we really need those comments? (We probably should have reverted to the dump where they still existed if so, so I guess not?) 2) Android is still a mess. The CopperHead folks are upset about Android 7.1 and the semi-discontinuation of the current devices. This may delay things, but they think if we launch Tor Labs soon, it will be OK. I told them I am shooting for end-of-month. Arturo: 1) Posted OONI UX designer job on the Tor website and open source design (https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs-ooni-ux-designer.html.en, https://github.com/opensourcedesign/jobs/pull/112) Please share and spread as much as you can. 2) Resolved some of the last critical bugs for the 2.0.0 release, so that is likely to be released very soon now. 3) We would like to have a OONI internal meeting mid November + 2 days of Open Hack day. This would allow us to meet the new developer in person and do some better coordination. 4) We published a long report on internet controls in Zambia during the elections: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/zambia-election-monitoring/ 5) The 2.0.0 release of ooniprobe will have enabled by default a tor deck, that will check to see if the meek domain fronts are working and if plain tor is able to bootstrap properly. 6) Working on a report on internet censorship in Ethiopia. Alison: 1) had a call with Maria to begin preliminary work on future partnerships with OONI and the Community Team (for Rapid Response, Outreach, etc) 2) support portal: still chugging along, will talk to Shari today about getting the resources we need to make this happen 3) membership guidelines: waiting on Lunar's final notes and then will send the doc to tor-internal@ to approve 4) been noticing/hearing from users about our woefully out-of-date and misleading documentation. we should have a sprint to fix these. will the website redesign help? should this happen before that? 5) where do we stand on the general contact email? Karsten: 1) We're very close to merging and deploying data synchronization between CollecTor instances. Finally! 2) Planning to ask devs to help with writing and testing CollecTor and later Onionoo operation guides, though not before end of next week: https://people.torproject.org/~karsten/volatile/metrics-operation-guides-20… 3) We realized that metrics-lib builds are reproducible, and we're considering to publish a guide for reproducing them, to have multiple people building and signing releases, and to publish this as Good Tor News later this year or in 2017. Isabela: 1) Follow up with Adam on OTF reports and NCE 2) Follow up with OTF proposal v4 / deadline friday 3) Plan on sending out today a call asking help on testing core tor releases / goal is to have a QA team that can help us with that on every release / 0.2.9 will be a pilot 4) Met Thomas the dev who will do the orfox front end gig with us / we will send him the contract asap and he should get started pretty soon 5) Great progress on security slider user experience on orfox / which can be used on tor browser desktop as well / Linda is driving this 6) Preparing for Chile 7) Starting to collect stuff for Q3 report to sponsorS 8) all week next week at OTF summit Roger: 1) CCC tickets: connect people who need them with people who have tokens. I've done some of this connecting, and I'll do more soon. People should let me know if they still need a ticket / if they have an extra voucher. 2) NSF posters + slides: for the January NSF PI meeting, we need one summary slide per NSF project, and we have five of them. Also an optional poster. I'll be commandeering Tor people to help with those in the coming week. 3) Rachel's NSF proposal: her sociology Tor+Wikipedia paper got accepted, and now they plus Mako are writing an NSF proposal to explore the https://blog.torproject.org/blog/call-arms-helping-internet-services-accept… topic further. I'm going to write them a letter of support on behalf of Tor, but not be a co-proposer, because conflict. 4) Next dev meeting: Mar 12-16 is during swsx so it's a poor choice. Next option we're looking at is Mar 23--27. Let us know if there's a conflict. 5) Speaker's bureau: I filed a ticket: https://bugs.torproject.org/20305 but there is no movement yet. 6) I'm talking to some professors about a new NSF proposal to fund a research testbed Tor network, which could build from the testing Tor network that dgoulet et al are operating. The proposal timing is not good but maybe we'll try something anyway. I have Cass in the loop. Shari: 1) trying to catch up after a week's vacation. :( 2) on the verge of hiring a chief financial and grants officer 3) working on getting end-of-year campaign ready 4) revising budget for otf proposal 5) finishing up with 990 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJYBMiDAAoJEC3ESO/4X7XBYycH/iH12PocwTnQQAmQaru8MOWG F7RjvNGZMsIcmdNfhAWFuvekrNeoCL00DugnLJU8+PCebrvFwY1VCjVjmmMQIGIx XtOqEJDMXb0MSQjI8VQNn7nExuoHw6TQNQftfzuh70Xt8VMdGgMgTuIIuRykaWBF Phrz4B+L28ChRmEXy09FwW60xpj2SDSDEwHHTKLGYQc1we+6DVZI7S1ohlN6LW8X ADwi3llfYAJc+J3bN6KrE6nBtDuzKBQZgNsOZllFwHd5DfRfKATGzz3BVP77NBhi D70PMRkutkxI+A3J26reMVyeTGJ8Xger02qOhPo6DdHddQUuyChhWQR721S7cig= =YMid -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Fwd: Tech For Justice Hackathon Invite
by Nima Fatemi 15 Oct '16

15 Oct '16

FYI -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Tech For Justice Hackathon Invite Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 10:47:39 -0500 From: Christy Leos <christy(a)internetbar.org> To: nima(a)torproject.org CC: Jeffrey Aresty <jeffaresty(a)internetbar.org> Hello Nima, My name is Christy Leos and I am the Director of Operations for Tech For Justice. My boss Jeff Aresty mentioned meeting you at Rights Con and discussing Tor and some of our projects as well. I wanted to reach out and invite you to our upcoming virtual hackathon techforjustice.org/legal-justice-hackathon. We would love to have you work with us to create solutions; Tor's expertise and know how would be extremely beneficial for the justice issues currently plaguing our communities. If you could share this information with your organization and its members, that would be amazing. Please let me know if you have any questions or would like more details. Thank you for your time, Christy Leos *Director of Operations * *InternetBar.org <http://InternetBar.org> Institute * *The Houston Bar Center* *723 Main St. Houston, TX* 361-220-8128

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If you're going to 33c3, be sure to get a ticket!
by Roger Dingledine 14 Oct '16

14 Oct '16

https://events.ccc.de/2016/09/01/call-for-participation-33rd-chaos-communic… https://events.ccc.de/2016/09/13/33c3-ticket-sales/ Congress is on track to sell out again this year. We plan to have a bunch of Tor people there, so we can answer Tor development and community questions for all the people who will have them. So if you are planning to be there, be sure to make plans to get a ticket! Some of our friends at CCC still complain about last year when we surprised them by wanting five tickets two weeks before the event. Let's not do that again. This month (October) is the best month for getting a ticket, since after October everything gets messier. Let us know if you will be going there as a Tor person and you need a ticket. Let us know early and often until it is resolved! Thanks, --Roger

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Fwd: Research about Tor Security Problem
by Shari Steele 14 Oct '16

14 Oct '16

> Begin forwarded message: > > From: پیوندی <rastin(a)tuta.io> > Subject: Research about Tor Security Problem > Date: October 14, 2016 at 7:52:05 AM PDT > To: <execdir(a)torproject.org> > > hi > A lot of research has gone into improving the Tor network, but its use of DNS has received little attention. In this research project, we set out to learn how DNS can harm the anonymity of Tor users, and how adversaries can leverage the DNS protocol to deanonymize users. > > website: > https://nymity.ch/tor-dns <https://nymity.ch/tor-dns/> > > Report: > https://nymity.ch/tor-dns/tor-dns.pdf <https://nymity.ch/tor-dns/tor-dns.pdf> > >

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Notes from October 6 2016 Vegas team meeting
by Karsten Loesing 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 See this posting for context: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-April/000223.html Notes for October 6 2016 meeting: Roger: 1) We added Arturo to the Vegas team! Now we will have more chances to get OONI better integrated into the rest of the Tor work. I am especially excited to get them thinking more about Tor blocking, and about tools to more efficiently figure out *how* Tor is blocked in a given place. 2) I heard Shari suggest "Amsterdam, March" for our next dev meeting. So I sent that mail out to the tor-meetings list. March 12-16, with optional hackdays after that, looks promising. How to proceed? 3) Any news on our blog rewrite contract? 4) Did you know we submitted a proposal to the DRL-metrics call-for-proposals? I only learned it accidentally. Is there some more consistent mechanism we should use for letting people know about such things? Maybe this particular one will get better now that Arturo is here. 5) Similarly, did you know we picked a services administrator? I only learned it accidentally last week. I bet many people still don't know. 6) We should set up a "speakers bureau" to coordinate around all the talks we do and are invited to do. Who should run it? Dgoulet has offered. Nick: 1) Nothing needed from other teams this week. 2) I'm getting out of the way as everybody does grantwriting/fundraising. 2a) But folks keep asking questions that I don't know answers to. Grants are confusing. 3) Talking to reporter about prop224, at Kate's request. 4) A short list of things I'm aware of that nobody's taken charge of so far as I know: 4a) Setting up GPG reencryptor for tor-security list. 4b) Setting up a securedrop instance 4c) Getting the board mailing lists the way the board wants them. 4d) Collecting the onboarding stuff we did with the last N people we onboarded in a way that we can onboard the next N more easily. Kate: 1) Working with Yawning on Q and A blog post about his Firefox sandbox 2) Working with Wendy on op-ed about Rule 41 (also: There is growing interest and support for shutting down the changes to Rule 41 but basically no time or chance to do so in Congress before December 1. However, this thing can be shut down at any time in the next legislative session, so the work in sharing info about Rule 41, getting people to call Congress and spread the word to their friends and family is still very useful.) 3) Met with EFF and Mozilla policy folk as well as SF-based reporters 4) Following up with Chilean and Indian policy advocates as well as others (there is interest in an International Privacy Day as a way of reaching out to people who don't know much about privacy issues) 5) Congrats to everyone on making the Seattle meeting a success! We were all trying hard and together, we did it. I learned a lot at the meeting that I'll be using in our communications work (for instance, I got to talk to Yawning). I'll have more follow up from the Seattle meeting next week. 6) I don't need anything from the group at present. 7) Welcome, Arturo! Georg: 1) Started to look at the Cloudflare proposal on tor-access list 2) Worked on the OTF proposal 3) Tied down remaining Tor Browser SponsorU items Arturo: 1) First time attending the Vegas team meeting. Looking forward to seeing how we can better support the work of the rest of Tor and being better integrated into the Tor ecosystem. 2) OONI has submitted a talk to CCC. 3) Working towards releasing 2.0.0 (with our new web UI) 4) Will try to push out this week a job posting for a UI/designer position 4a) Should reach out to Mike and Linda for feedback and suggestions on how to handle this hiring process 4b) Will interact with Scout and SimplySecure on how to ensure it reaches the maximum amount of people and for help during the hiring process 5) This month we are switching over to the OTF grant (from the MDF grant) 6) Will publish this week or beginning of next week a report on internet controls in Zambia Isabela: 1) working on reports to OTF - reports on deliverables we are invoicing them / august report that I am late on core tor part / September report that I am also late with core tor part 2) isc contract started on september - amogh will do the backend part but we are missing someone to do the frontend part. I think I found the person, is a firefox addon developer from NL - will set up an irc chat with Geko and Nathan and him. 2.1) Nathan actually helped me find this person. this is a 25hrs $100/hr contract. 2.2) posted wireframes of the experience for review (reviewer: Linda) 3) many follow ups from Seattle Tor Meeting: 3.1) follow up on tor browser roadmap 3.2) follow up on network team discussion 3.3) follow up on visual style guide discussion 4) working with Giant Rabbit to make sure we unblock them -- mostly getting info for admins to set up vms for them 5) working with Linda on her goals for the month - had a 1:1 with her on skype about it and also answered many questions she listed while ramping up 6) trying to figure out how to cut 200k from our otf proposal :( 7) events - i will be attending an event in Chile. 8) NCE for OTF sponsorU work (extend till end of nov) 9) service admin intern will start on nov 1st (silvia) Alison: 1) Don't need anything from other teams this week. 2) I'm mostly afk this week as i finish moving and take a few days off. I'll be back to following up on meeting stuff next week. Karsten: 1) Writing code, nothing to see here. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJX+0J0AAoJEC3ESO/4X7XBfgAH/3d44Igrvx4gcyoFnCNGMHKn JB7UwPJdPAKMnAotpNEgZAu2s6YT6H3+WM31RWN8WHGkBKwMMuULUkyzJ2LPK47K 5Vgv7zTwW1mLtOrpi74p/uh6gfgp3NkHXPZJ8REJdu5MfkZdIiovgAP0tWbjl5Kz llGJsPiLC//rR5rN5OW9bPI4EISwSlQVqF7MMI6UR275nj8QgQyJzCal3w8MC9/u ky+V1cOPZTDRT1ci3nHFkScnTJyPTPcNhXjWL/KBMcQGxyv0/RChutzvv5iS/xYz Pr6eJjwufR6JvaD2drsXd0mmqD6Qdx+Ti8O9vMMk+EEoPqjDAIxWWeW+JA8MgXs= =dcSu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Fwd: [OTF-Announce] Announcement of Funding Opportunities
by isis agora lovecruft 07 Oct '16

07 Oct '16

----- Forwarded message from dan <dan(a)opentechfund.org> ----- > From: dan <dan(a)opentechfund.org> > Subject: [OTF-Announce] Announcement of Funding Opportunities > Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 11:28:53 -0700 (PDT) > Message-Id: <fa072fb2-9d17-4705-9737-8686bb2eb64b(a)opentechfund.org> > To: OTF-Announce <otf-announce(a)opentechfund.org> > Reply-To: otf-announce+managers(a)opentechfund.org > Delivered-To: <isis+torproject(a)patternsinthevoid.net> > > > > > > *--- OTF FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENTS > ---==============================================*Please find below several > upcoming internet freedom-relevant funding application deadlines. There are > two sections, the first for OTF support and the second for all alternative > support mechanisms. Note that some of the listed application windows close > in just a few days. > If you have any questions on the information below, please feel free to > give a shout to us at OTF anytime. Thanks! > > > *1. OTF FUNDING==============================================* > > - > *OTF - Internet Freedom Fund * > *Deadline: 2016-11-01 *The Internet Freedom Fund is OTF's primary way to > support projects and people working on open and accessible > technology-centric projects that promote human rights, internet freedom, > open societies, and help advance inclusive and safe access to global > communications networks. Successful applicants are awarded monetary support > up to $900,000 and no less than $10,000, with preference given to those > projects and people who are new to the internet freedom community, helping > those living within repressive environments, and are requesting less than > $300,000 for a duration of less than 12 months. > Apply: https://www.opentech.fund/requests/internet-freedom-fund > > > - > *OTF - Rapid Response Fund * > *Deadline: Ongoing *The Rapid Response Fund is part of a broader OTF initiative > which aims to facilitate the development of a strong digital emergency > response community that can work together to resolve threats in a timely > and comprehensive manner. OTF offers both direct financial support as > well as technical services from trusted partners to resolve digital > emergencies experienced by high-risk Internet users and organizations, such > as bloggers, cyber activists, journalists. and human rights defenders. > Apply: https://www.opentech.fund/requests/rapid-response-fund > > > > *2. ALTERNATIVE FUNDING==============================================* > > - *Human Rights Watch - Various Fellowships* > *Deadline: October 8, 2016* > Human Rights Watch has several available fellowships all with a deadline > of tomorrow, 10/8/16. > More > information: https://careers.hrw.org/opportunities/?employmentLevel=Fellowship&location=… > > - > *National Science Foundation (NSF) - Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace > (SaTC) * > *Upcoming windows: October 12 - October 19 and November 02 - November 16, > 2016 *"The SaTC program welcomes proposals that address cybersecurity > and privacy, and draw on expertise in one or more of these areas: > computing, communication and information sciences; engineering; economics; > education; mathematics; statistics; and social and behavioral sciences. > Proposals that advance the field of cybersecurity and privacy within a > single discipline or interdisciplinary efforts that span multiple > disciplines are both encouraged." > More information and apply: > https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504709 > > - > *National Science Foundation (NSF) - Computer and Network Systems (CNS): > Core Programs * > *Upcoming windows: October 12 - October 19 and November 02 - November 16, > 2016 *"CISE’s Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) supports > research and education projects that develop new knowledge in two core > programs: Computer Systems Research (CSR) program and Networking Technology > and Systems (NeTS) program." Funding is available for small projects (up to > $500,000 total budget, durations up to three years), medium projects > ($500,001-$1,200,000 total budget, durations up to four years), and large > projects ($1,2000,001-$3,000,000 total budget, durations up to five years). > More information and > apply: https://nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16579/nsf16579.htm > > > - Echoing Green Fellowships > Deadline: October 25, 2016 > "Echoing Green Fellows are the innovators, instigators, pioneers, and > rebels that reject the status quo and drive positive social change all over > the world. While their work, their geographies, and even their approaches > may be as varied as the problems they are working to solve, their common > passion and commitment form the base of this robust, active community of > leaders" > Apply: http://www.echoinggreen.org/fellowship/apply > > - *State Department DRL Request for SOIs: Human Rights, Accountability, > and Access to Information in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea > (DPRK or North Korea) * > *Deadline: October 31, 2016 by 11:30pm Eastern Time* > "*Fostering the Free Flow of Information into, out of, and within the > DPRK *(approximately $1,600,000, pending availability of funding, with > potentially more than two (2) projects awarded)...DRL’s goal is for the > people of North Korea to have increased access to independent information > that provides a range of viewpoints and increases exposure to and > understanding of environments where individuals are able to communicate > information and express their opinions freely." > More information and apply: https://www.state.gov/j/drl/p/262180.htm > > - > > *Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowships Deadline: November 1, 2016 *"The > Shuttleworth Foundation offers fellowships to individuals to implement > their innovative idea for social change. We are most interested in > exceptional ideas at the intersection between technology, knowledge and > learning, with openness being the key requirement. The Foundation funds > people from all over the world regardless of gender, age, nationality or > experience. We are looking for a complete picture of you and your idea." > Apply: https://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/application-form/ > > - *National Endowment for Democracy (NED) - Reagan-Fascell Fellowship > Program* > *Deadline: November 1, 2016* > "The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program hosts democratic > activists, scholars, and journalists for five-month fellowships, bringing > fresh insights and perspectives to Washington, DC. The fellowship offers an > important opportunity to explore new ideas in a comparative context, > undertake individual research, and share best practices with one another." > Apply: > http://www.ned.org/fellowships/reagan-fascell-democracy-fellows-program/app… > > > - > > *Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) Deadline: November 30, 2016 "*The > Mozilla Open Source Support program is designed to recognize and celebrate > communities who are leading the way with open source projects that > contribute to our work and the health of the Web. It encompasses a “give > back” element for Open Source and Free Software projects that Mozilla > relies on (the "Foundational Technology" track), a “give forward” element > for supporting other projects whose goals are in alignment with ours (the > "Mission Partners" track), and an element for improving the security of the > open source ecosystem (the "Secure Open Source" track)." > More information: https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS#Program_Overview > > Apply: https://docs.google.com/a/opentechfund.org/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9a9h4afnJnDp3… > > --------- > In addition to the open application windows listed above, you can always > check our compiled list of alternative sources of support: > https://www.opentech.fund/apply/alternative-sources-support > > -- > This is the announce list for Open Technology Fund, https://www.opentechfund.org > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OTF-Announce" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to otf-announce+unsubscribe(a)opentechfund.org. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/a/opentechfund.org/d/optout. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ♥Ⓐ isis agora lovecruft _________________________________________________________ OpenPGP: 4096R/0A6A58A14B5946ABDE18E207A3ADB67A2CDB8B35 Current Keys: https://fyb.patternsinthevoid.net/isis.txt

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bwauth
by Nima Fatemi 04 Oct '16

04 Oct '16

Hey there, I'm not sure if I mentioned this on a public channel before, but I'm running a bandwidth authority from a VPS in HK. It has been running since Aug 1st, 2016. For now, the results are being pushed to a repo[0] on a hourly basis. I thought I'd mention this for anyone who wants to study them or if any of the DAs need a bwscanner to pair with. I'm planning to keep this running for the foreseeable future. You can directly fetch the latest scan[1][2] or measured percentage[3]. I can later put them on a webserver if that makes a difference. [0] https://github.com/mrphs/bwauth [1] https://github.com/mrphs/bwauth/blob/master/latest_bwscan [2] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mrphs/bwauth/master/latest_bwscan [3] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mrphs/bwauth/master/measured_percentage.t… Peace, -- Nima 0X58C4B928A3E218F6 | @mrphs "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" --Evelyn Beatrice Hall

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Summary of meek's costs, August 2016
by David Fifield 03 Oct '16

03 Oct '16

Here's the summary of meek's CDN fees for August 2016. App Engine + Amazon + Azure = total by period all 2014 $600.63 + $917.89 + $0.00 = $1518.52 January 2015 $464.37 + $669.02 + $0.00 = $1133.39 February 2015 $650.53 + $604.83 + $0.00 = $1255.36 March 2015 $690.29 + $815.68 + $0.00 = $1505.97 April 2015 $886.43 + $785.37 + $0.00 = $1671.80 May 2015 $871.64 + $896.39 + $0.00 = $1768.03 June 2015 $601.83 + $820.00 + $0.00 = $1421.83 July 2015 $732.01 + $837.08 + $0.00 = $1569.09 August 2015 $656.76 + $819.59 + $154.89 = $1631.24 September 2015 $617.08 + $710.75 + $490.58 = $1818.41 October 2015 $672.01 + $110.72 + $300.64 = $1083.37 November 2015 $602.35 + $474.13 + $174.18 = $1250.66 December 2015 $561.29 + $603.27 + $172.60 = $1337.16 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 + $1097.46 + $513.56 = $2136.48 June 2016 $0.00 + $1117.67 + $575.50 = $1693.17 July 2016 $0.00 + $1121.71 + $592.47 = $1714.18 August 2016 $0.00 + $1038.62 + $607.13 = $5400.12 -- total by CDN $13138.96 + $17939.22 + $4792.99 = $35871.17 grand total https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-transport.html?start=2016-0… The number of users continued to rise last month, getting almost to 10,000, about the level it was at before the meek-google shutdown. (There's a big dip near the end of the month, but it doesn't seem to have lasted long.) That means that meek-azure and meek-amazon are under increased load compared to before--about 7 TB/month for meek-azure and 3 TB/month for meek-amazon. If I get a chance, I'm going to try installing an ECDSA (as opposed to RSA) certificate on meek-azure, and see if it relieves the CPU load. If you are one of the users affected by the meek-google shutdown, see here for a workaround: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2016-June/041699.html == Amazon a.k.a. meek-amazon == Asia Pacific (Singapore) 77M requests $93.24 428 GB $57.27 Asia Pacific (Sydney) 6M requests $7.52 33 GB $4.51 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) 1M requests $1.38 7 GB $0.95 EU (Ireland) 299M requests $359.00 997 GB $77.22 Global 1M requests $1.91 6 GB $0.48 South America (Sao Paulo) 22M requests $49.82 177 GB $42.23 US East (Northern Virginia) 247M requests $247.36 1214 GB $95.24 -- total 655M requests $760.23 2865 GB $277.90 charge for alarms $0.50 https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/F4AD82B2032EDEF6C02C5A529C42CFAFE5165… == Azure a.k.a. meek-azure == Zone 1 6731 GB $585.61 Zone 2 156 GB $ 21.52 -- total 6887 GB $607.13 https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/AA033EEB61601B2B7312D89B62AAA23DC3ED8… Earlier reports in this series: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek#Costs

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