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LEAP is hiring for work on TorVPN
by Erin Wyatt 16 Dec '21

16 Dec '21

Hello everyone, One of our partner organizations, LEAP <https://leap.se/> (LEAP Encryption Access Project), has three open positions for work on the upcoming TorVPN: Go Developer <https://leap.se/post/2021_11_28_work_to_do/#go-application-developer-for-le…> Android Developer <https://leap.se/post/2021_11_28_work_to_do/#android-app-developer-for-leap-…> iOS Developer <https://leap.se/post/2021_11_28_work_to_do/#ios-developer-for-leap-vpn> This is a really exciting and important partnership for Tor! Please help us spread the word about these open positions. Thank you! Erin Wyatt Director of People Operations (she/her) ewyatt(a)torproject.org <mailto:ewyatt@torproject.org> PGP: 35E7 2A9F 6655 45F9 2CB6 6624 BA0C 9400 F80F 91CE https://www.torproject.org <https://www.torproject.org/> http://2gzyxa5ihm7nsggfxnu52rck2vv4rvmdlkiu3zzui5du4xyclen53wid.onion/ <http://2gzyxa5ihm7nsggfxnu52rck2vv4rvmdlkiu3zzui5du4xyclen53wid.onion/>

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Monthly Localization Hangout Tomorrow Fri Dec 17th
by emma peel 16 Dec '21

16 Dec '21

ey there! I wanted to invite you to the Tor Monthly Localization Hangout tomorrow, where we discuss localization topics, priorities, best practices, and more. More information: https://community.torproject.org/localization/hangouts/ See you on #tor-l10n! emmapeel Localization Coordinator Tor Project

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LEAP is hiring for work on TorVPN
by Erin Wyatt 15 Dec '21

15 Dec '21

Hello everyone, One of our partner organizations, LEAP <https://leap.se/> (LEAP Encryption Access Project), has three open positions for work on the upcoming TorVPN: Go Developer <https://leap.se/post/2021_11_28_work_to_do/#go-application-developer-for-le…> Android Developer <https://leap.se/post/2021_11_28_work_to_do/#android-app-developer-for-leap-…> iOS Developer <https://leap.se/post/2021_11_28_work_to_do/#ios-developer-for-leap-vpn> This is a really exciting and important partnership for Tor! Please help us spread the word about these open positions. Thank you! Erin Wyatt Director of People Operations (she/her) ewyatt(a)torproject.org PGP: 35E7 2A9F 6655 45F9 2CB6 6624 BA0C 9400 F80F 91CE https://www.torproject.org <https://www.torproject.org/> http://2gzyxa5ihm7nsggfxnu52rck2vv4rvmdlkiu3zzui5du4xyclen53wid.onion/

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Tor Event - PrivChat #6 - Dec 15 @ 19:00 UTC
by Al Smith 15 Dec '21

15 Dec '21

Hello all, Next week, we're hosting PrivChat #6 - Privacy is a Human Right. Amidst escalating Russian censorship against Tor, this is a very timely conversation that includes an artist & activist who knows what it's like to be living in Russia and depending on Tor: *Nadya Tolokonnika, founder of Pussy Riot.* Event will be hosted by *Cindy Cohn*, ED of EFF, and Nadya will be joined by fellow panelists *Ali Gharavia* of Sida, and *Nicholas Merrill*, founder & ED of the Calyx Institute. ** * *When: *Wed, Dec 15 @ 19:00 UTC (convert to your timezone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20211215T190000&p…) * *Where:* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttQiA_GfI6s * *Details: *https://torproject.org/privchat Please share this with anyone who may be interested! Cheers, Al -- Al Smith (they/them) Fundraising Director The Tor Project https://www.torproject.org | http://2gzyxa5ihm7nsggfxnu52rck2vv4rvmdlkiu3zzui5du4xyclen53wid.onion/

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Network Team - Upcoming Releases tor.git - December 2021
by David Goulet 14 Dec '21

14 Dec '21

Greetings everyone! Network team will be releasing on Thursday a new Tor 0.4.6.x stable and 0.4.7.x alpha containing various fixes but nothing critical. One important fix is the one removing DNS timeouts from the overload general signal. You will find more details about it here: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/team/-/issues/139 Another thing we would like to clarify. We are way pass our usual timeline of 6 months per stable version with regards to the 0.4.7.x series. The reason is that we've been working very hard on this new congestion control feature (prop#324) for the network that is not only very complex but takes a long time to test and simulate. And thus, we made the decision to delay 0.4.7.x first stable version until congestion control is to our standard and hopefully a wonderful thing :). The estimate for that might not be until February if all goes well but don't take my words for it. In the meantime, we'll be rolling out more alphas as important bugs need to be release. Nothing is set in stone, we regularly assess the schedule for 0.4.7. Upcoming versions: - 0.4.6.9 - 0.4.7.3-alpha @network-team: It is _now_ a good time to start reviewing changes/ files: 046: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/tree/release-0.4.6/changes 047: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/tree/main/changes Last, we've asked the dirauth to recommend these versions few minutes ago. Cheers! David -- ur/QctTmnMWK0VP2przjh2ctwvaJxNFxD0oKG8FoaYI=

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Community Team meeting notes - 2021 December 06
by gus 11 Dec '21

11 Dec '21

Hello, Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-12-06-13.59.html and our meeting pad: ## Tor Community Team meeting pad Next meeting: Monday, December 13, 2021 - 1400 UTC Weekly meetings, every Monday at 14:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress) ## Goal of this meeting Weekly checkin about the status of Community Team work at Tor. ## Links to Useful documents * Looking for volunteers: https://forum.torproject.net/t/looking-for-volunteers-to-contribute-to-the-… ## Discussion * Bridge campaign * Some isps in Russia are blocking Tor: - Ticket: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40050 - Translated template: https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-blocked-in-russia-how-to-circumvent-cens… - Tweets: https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1466885338878513153 - From the user support perspective, what else we can do? - Follow up with Nathan and Josh about Link/Telegram helpdesk - https://docs.digiresilience.org/link/ * Outreachy internship kick-off: "Mapping values and motivations of the tor networks" You can read the project here: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/team/-/issues/46 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/relays/-/issues/26 Week 1 and 2 (Dec 6 - Dec 19): - Study: Understand Tor relays - Passive UX research: Research about relay operators' motivations, community core values, relay flags, the biggest relay families Let's track this project development in this repository: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/relays/ ## Updates Name: This week: - What you worked on this week Help with: - Something you need help with Gus: This week: - Reviewing ECC applicants - Outreachy mentorship starts - More network health work with GeKo - Reviewing OTF fellowship project - Contact new bridge operators Joydeep This week: - User Support work - Status report - Bridges Campaign - https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… Miko: This week: - Passive UX research - reading up on resources sent by Gus a few weeks ago -- The Tor Project Community Team Lead

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minutes from the sysadmin meeting
by Antoine Beaupré 08 Dec '21

08 Dec '21

Hi! TPA held its last meeting of the year, and it was a big one because this time we welcomed the UX and community folks to talk about web things. # Roll call: who's there and emergencies * anarcat * gaba * gus * kez * lavamind * nah # Final roadmap review before holidays What are we *actually* going to do by the end of the year? See the 2021 roadmap, which we'll technically be closing this month: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/roadmap/2021#q4 Here are the updates: * blog migration done! * discourse instance now in production! * jenkins (almost) fully retired (just needs to pull rouyi and the last builder off, waiting for the Debian package tests) * tpa mailing list *will* be created * submission server ready, waiting for documentation for launch * donate website rewrite postponed to after the year-end campaign * bridges.torproject.org not necesssarily deployed before the holidays, but a priority ## Website redesign retrospective Gus gave us a quick retrospective on the major changes that happened on the websites in the past few years. The website migration started in 2018, based on a new design made by Antonela. In Tor Dev Meeting Rome, we discussed how to do the migration. The team was antonela (design), hiro (webdev), alison and gus (content), steph (comms), pili (pm), and emmapeel (l10n). The main webpage totally redesigned, and support.tpo created as a new portal. Some docs from Trac and RT articles imported in support.tpo. Lektor was chosen because: - localisation support - static site generator - written in Python - can provide a web interface for editors But dev.tpo was never launched. We have a spreadsheet (started with duncan at an All Hands meeting in early 2021) with content that still needs to be migrated. We didn't have enough people to do this so we prioritized the blog migration instead. ### Where we are now We're using lektor mostly everywhere, except metrics, research, and status.tpo: * metrics and research portal was separate, developed in hugo. irl made a bootstrap template following the styleguide * status was built by anarcat using hugo because there was a solid "status site" template that matched A lot of content was copied to the support and community portals, but some docs are only available in the old site (2019.www.tpo). We discussed creating a docs.tpo for documentation that doesn't need to be localized and not for end-users, more for advanced users and developers. So what do we do with docs.tpo and dev.tpo next? dev.tpo just needs to happen. It was part of sponsor9, and was never completed. docs.tpo was for technical documentation. dev.tpo was a presentation of the project. dev.tpo is like a community portal for devs, not localized. It seems docs.tpo could be part of dev.tpo, as the distinction is not very clear. ## web OKR 2022 brainstorm To move forward, we did a quick brainstorm of a roadmap for the web side of TPA for 2022. Here are the ideas that came out: * check if bootstrap needs an upgrade for all websites * donation page launch * sponsor 9 stuff: collected UX feedback for portals, which involves web to fix issues we found, need to prioritise * new bridge website (sponsor 30) * dev portal, just do it (see [issue 6][]) [issue 6]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/dev/-/issues/6 We'll do another meeting in jan to make better OKRs for this. We also need to organise with the new people: * onion SRE: new OTF project USAGM, starting in february * new community person The web roadmap should live somewhere under the [web wiki][] and be cross-referenced from the [TPA roadmap section][]. [web wiki]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/team/-/wikis/home [TPA roadmap section]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/roadmap/2022 ## Systems side We didn't have time to review the TPA dashboards, and have delegated this to the next weekly checkin, on December 13th. * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/boards/117 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/tpa/-/boards # Holidays Who's AFK when? * normal TPI: dec 22 - jan 5 (incl.) * anarcat: dec 22 - jan 10th, will try to keep a computer around and not work, which is hard * kez: normal TPI, will be near a computer, checking on things from time to time * lavamind: normal TPI (working on monday or tuesday 20/21, friday 7th), will be near a computer, checking on things from time to time TPA folks can ping each other on signal if you see something and need help or take care of it. Let's keep doing the triage rotation, which means the following weeks: * week 50 (dec 5-11): lavamind * week 51 (dec 12-18): anarcat * week 52 (dec 19-25): kez * week 1 2022 (dec 26 - jan 1 2022): anarcat * week 2 (jan 2-7 2022): lavamind * week 3 (jan 8-14 2022): kez anarcat and lavamind swapped the two last weeks, normal schedule (anarcat/kez/lavamind) should resume after. The idea is *not* to work as much as we currently do, but only check for emergencies or "code red". As a reminder, this policy is defined in [TPA-RFC-2][], [support levels][]. The "code red" example does not currently include GitLab CI, but considering the rise in that service and the pressure on the shadow simulations, we may treat major outages on runners as a code red during the vactions. [TPA-RFC-2]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/policy/tpa-rfc-2-support [support levels]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/policy/tpa-rfc-2-support… # Other discussions We need to review the dashboards during the next checkin. We need to schedule a OKR session for the web team in January. # Next meeting No meeting was scheduled for next month. Normally, it would fall on January 3rd 2022, but considering we'll be on vacation during that time, we should probably just schedule the next meeting on January 10th. # Metrics of the month * hosts in Puppet: 88, LDAP: 88, Prometheus exporters: 139 * number of Apache servers monitored: 27, hits per second: 176 * number of Nginx servers: 2, hits per second: 0, hit ratio: 0.81 * number of self-hosted nameservers: 6, mail servers: 8 * pending upgrades: 0, reboots: 0 * average load: 1.68, memory available: 3.97 TiB/4.88 TiB, running processes: 694 * disk free/total: 84.64 TiB/35.46 TiB * bytes sent: 340.91 MB/s, received: 202.82 MB/s * [GitLab tickets][]: 164 tickets including... * open: 0 * icebox: 142 * backlog: 10 * next: 8 * doing: 2 * (closed: 2540) [Gitlab tickets]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/boards We're already progressing towards our Debian bullseye upgrades: 11 out of those 88 machines have been upgraded. We did retire a few buster boxes however, which helped: we had a peak of 91 machines, in October *and* early December, which implies we have quite a bit of churn in the number of machines created and destroyed, which is interesting in its own right. We do not have a completion date yet, but considering that (a) the first bullseye hosts were introduced in September and (b) that we have ~12.5% of the hosts upgraded, it will take us another 21 months (or 7 quarters, more than two years!) to complete the upgrade. Obviously, a few work sessions will be required to meet our planned deadline (next summer). -- Antoine Beaupré torproject.org system administration

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UX team monthly meetings notes, December 7th
by Duncan Russell 07 Dec '21

07 Dec '21

Hello, Thanks everyone who made it to today's UX team monthly meeting! We're looking forward to seeing you all again on January 11th, with an aim to resume <hopefully shorter> weekly team meetings thereafter. Here are the minutes: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-12-07-13.59.log… <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-12-07-13.59.log…> Today we discussed Tor Browser 11.0.1 for desktop's release and ongoing user support, shared an update on the UX Team’s search for a Brand Designer, listed some ways we can improve weekly project management within the team, and discussed the need to update our onboarding materials for volunteer user researchers. *** == Monthly User Experience Team Meeting == Open IRC meetings happen monthly on the first Tuesday of the month at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. The next meeting will be held on Tuesday January 11th at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. Here are the minutes from our most recent meetings: December 7th: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-12-07-13.59.log… <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-12-07-13.59.log…> Novemebr 9th: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-11-09-13.59.log… <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-11-09-13.59.log…> October 12th: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-10-12-13.59.log… <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-10-12-13.59.log…> -------------------------- Tuesday December 7th 14:00 UTC -------------------------- == What projects are we working on? == S9 - Usability and Community Intervention on Support for Democracy and Human Rights https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&…>[]=Sponsor%209&label_name[]=UX S30 - Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&…>[]=Sponsor%2030&label_name[]=UX S96 – Rapid Expansion of Access to the Uncensored Internet through Tor in China, Hong Kong, & Tibet https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24> S101 - Tor VPN Client for Android https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/32 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/32> == Announcements == * Tor Browser 11.0.1 Release (desktop only): https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1101/ <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1101/> == Agenda == 1. Tor Browser 11 post-launch update Forum thread here: https://forum.torproject.net/t/new-release-tor-browser-11-0-1/656 <https://forum.torproject.net/t/new-release-tor-browser-11-0-1/656> 2. Brand Designer hiring update Job post here: https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/brand-designer/ <https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/brand-designer/> 3. UX Team Project Management – how can we improve it? Roadmap & planning board: https://www.figma.com/file/n4ETd0cUkcfj3KyclJQnt3/UX-Team-Planning?node-id=… <https://www.figma.com/file/n4ETd0cUkcfj3KyclJQnt3/UX-Team-Planning?node-id=…> UX Kanban: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&…> We decided to: - Restart weekly team meetings in January (at the same timeslot?) - Begin each team meeting with our todolists and a mini-ticket triage - Consider a separate label for UX team work (distinct from tpo UX issues) or otherwise optimize the UX kanban 4. Create research plan for volunteers https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/51 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/51> Todo list: - Create a new onboarding process for volunteers - Include two new research plans (one for desktop, one for mobile) - Send it to the mailing list - Include an open floor to share findings during the weekly meetings == Open Call for User Research == Find out how to contribute to the UX team: https://community.torproject.org/user-research/how-to-volunteer/ <https://community.torproject.org/user-research/how-to-volunteer/> Thanks everyone! *** Duncan Larsen-Russell Product Manager & UX Team Lead duncan(a)torproject.org <mailto:duncan@torproject.org>

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Joydeep's Monthly Status Report for November 2021
by Joydeep Sen Gupta 07 Dec '21

07 Dec '21

Hello everyone! This is my monthly status report for November, 2021. The priorities for this month have been to launch and moderate the Tor Forum (forum.torproject.net), publicize the forum on our traditional user support channels [1], update Tor Browser manual with the release of Tor Browser 11 [2] and continue our user support work. # Frontdesk Frontdesk stats: Timeline : 05 Nov 2021 - 05 Dec 2021 Tickets: new: 157 open: 13 resolved: 185 Breakdown of number of RT tickets received with respect to operating system: Windows (11,10,8,7) - 19 macOS - 36 GNU/Linux - 19 Android- 2 (Note: This includes tickets where the user mentioned the operating system or it was evident from the issue they were running into and/or enclosed screenshots.) Breakdown of tickets (at least 3 RT tickets): 1. 45 RT Tickets - Known Issues with Tor Browser 11 and 11.0.1 [3] 2. 25 RT Tickets - Tor Browser 11 is incompatible with older versions of macOS. The version of Firefox ESR (91.3.0) on which Tor Browser 11 is based requires [4] macOS 10.12 or above and we have received numerous complains from the users stuck on the unsupported versions of macOS. 3. 9 RT Tickets - Private Bridge requests. 4. 9 RT Tickets - Tor Browser 11 crashes when using Protonmail (and some other websites). We have Bug 40721 [5] to track this issue but as a workaround we have been recommending users to either use old.protonmail.com or Protonmail's onion service. 5. 3 RT Tickets - Reports of fake Tor apps on the App Store. All of the entries we have received last month are already mentioned in the Bad/Impersonating Tor Browser wiki entry [6]. # Tor Forum Most popular topics that have been discussed in the past month (in terms of views): 1. Tor blocked in Russia: how to circumvent censorship [7]. Since December, some ISPs in Russia have started to block access to Tor. More information about this on Bug #40050 [8] 2. Relays running an unsupported (EOL) Tor version [9]. Announcement post that we are going to phase out Tor relays that are running old and unsupported versions of Tor. 3. (Tor Browser 11) UI Broke after updating [10]. One of the known issues with Tor Browser 11 [11], this saw a lot of discussion both on the forum and frontdesk. 4. Should I install a new add-on or extension in Tor Browser, like AdBlock Plus or uBlock Origin? [12]. One of the traditional FAQs from users of the Tor Browser. We also have a Support Portal entry [13] regarding this (also see the answer to the forum thread). 5. Only connection via Tor for the entire operating system [14]. Discussion around how one can force all of their OS traffic through Tor. If you have any suggestions, questions or want to discuss anything in detail please feel free to get in touch. Thanks, -- Joydeep [1]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40046 [2]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/manual/-/issues/112 [3]: https://forum.torproject.net/t/new-release-tor-browser-11-0-1/656#known-iss… [4]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/91.3.0/system-requirements/ [5]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40721 [6]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/wikis/Bad_TorB… [7]: https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-blocked-in-russia-how-to-circumvent-cens… [8]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40050 [9]: https://forum.torproject.net/t/relays-running-an-unsupported-eol-tor-versio… [10]: https://forum.torproject.net/t/ui-broke-after-updating/535/19 [11]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40702 [12]: https://forum.torproject.net/t/should-i-install-a-new-add-on-or-extension-i… [13]: https://support.torproject.org/tbb/tbb-14/ [14]: https://forum.torproject.net/t/only-connection-via-tor-for-the-entire-opera…

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Tor DEF CON 29 badges available, limited time
by Al Smith 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

Hello Tor people! I'm very excited to share that we have a new, limited-time-only gift available through https://donate.torproject.org. From now through December 13, Tor DEF CON 29 badges -- fully functional mini lie detectors -- are available with a donation of $500 to the Tor Project. Your donation makes an impact for the millions of people who need Tor every day by helping us improve Tor network speeds, re-write Tor in Rust, build community among relay operators, and re-imagine the flow of censorship circumvention in Tor Browser. As a token of our thanks, you will receive the Tor DEF CON 29 badge. Only ~200 are available. We are extremely appreciative of your support and hope you enjoy this gift! P.S.: Please extend a huge thank you to Tor supporters seeess and gigs for designing and assembling these badges, both for DEF CON 29 in-person and for this limited run as part of our year-end campaign. -- Al Smith (they/them) Fundraising Director The Tor Project https://www.torproject.org | http://2gzyxa5ihm7nsggfxnu52rck2vv4rvmdlkiu3zzui5du4xyclen53wid.onion/

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