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Tomorrow we hangout! Tor L10n hangout Friday from noon UTC
by emma peel 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

Every 3rd Friday of the month the Tor L10n Team meets to translate together, share tricks, have fun while translating, meet fellow translators, and find out about the l10n priorities for the Tor Project. Tomorrow on the hangout we will see how the previews for translation are built on our gitlab. Come join us on the Localization Hangout, from Noon UTC, on the #tor-l10n channel in OFTC. (you can also use Element https://element.io/ to connect: #tor-l10n:matrix.org) At 13 UTC we make a call on Big Blue Button If you are not a translator yet, you still have time to become one before the hangout: https://community.torproject.org/localization/becoming-tor-translator/ What do we do in a hangout? - Translate stuff - Share translation tips and resources - Complain about developers - Talk about translation priorities - Talk about our local contexts - Practice bug reporting and git skills see you there! emmapeel

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Job Announcement - Director of Strategic Communications
by Erin Wyatt 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

Hello, everyone! I am excited to announce that we are hiring for a Director of Strategic Communications. Full job description here <https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/director-strategic-comm/> and pasted below. Isa and I will be participating in the Team CommUNITY Job Fair <https://www.digitalrights.community/blog/digital-rights-job-fair-june-22> today/tomorrow, Thursday, June 16th, from 14:20-1700 UTC (Round 1 Expo Slot). RSVPs are closed for the event, but we I a small handful of tokens (single use links) for the event. If you are or know someone interested in the Director of Strategic Comms position who wants to chat with us, please email me and I’ll forward a link. Otherwise, please help us spread the word and tweet/share/forward anywhere you think might be helpful. :) 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/> ------------------------------------>8 # Internet Freedom Nonprofit Seeks Director of Strategic Communications June 14, 2022 The Tor Project is seeking a Director of Strategic Communications to help us tell the world about our important work. We are the nonprofit organization behind the Tor Browser and Tor network, and our technology helps millions of people around the world to securely and freely access the Internet and circumvent censorship. Our mission is to advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies, supporting their unrestricted availability and use, and furthering their scientific and popular understanding. The Director of Strategic Communications role presents a unique and exciting opportunity for a motivated content strategist, brand storyteller, writer, editor, and versatile communicator with proven experience in the field. This position will be reporting directly to the Executive Director. You will work with a diverse team of stakeholders (Executive Director, Community Team Lead, Fundraising Director, and Graphic Designer) who will contribute to your strategic communications plan by keeping you up-to-date on all Tor fronts. Your plan will include press release distribution, blog posts, media pitches, social media campaigns, etc. You will also work closely with a diverse, international community of people who are passionate about internet freedom, who make Tor and related software products. This position will also include some internal communications management, such as helping our Project Manager organize weekly All Hands meeting agendas, and for organizing some of the large annual online events we host, such as [PrivChat](https://www.torproject.org/privchat/) and [State of the Onion](https://blog.torproject.org/state-of-the-onion-2021/). This is a hands-on position for a highly skilled communications professional with a fierce passion for internet freedom and privacy-enhanced technology. This is a full-time, remote position. Salary for this position is $90,000 USD per year and there is voluntary opt-in salary transparency for employees and contractors. ## Responsibilities ### Strategy and Other Responsibilities - Create and execute multi-channel communications strategy. Serve as project manager for all communications programs, ensuring timelines and deliverable expectations are met. - Ensure continuity of the brand story through tone, voice, accuracy, consistency, and quality. - Maintain our stories database: Identify and collect stories from various sources that effectively communicate Tor’s impact and its importance. - Report on the impact and effectiveness of communications activities to leadership. - General writing and editing responsibilities as required. - Other duties as assigned. ### Press, Media, and Conferences Representation - Represent The Tor Project to the press; Write press releases, handle press calls, and distribute media calls to appropriate members of The Tor Project. - Manage the Tor Project's media contacts. - Train staff and community members on media skills and strategy on a per need basis; coach/prep/debrief people for specific media calls. - Maintain the press section of the torproject.org website. Collect, organize, and post the Tor Project's press clippings to the website. - Coordinate speaking opportunities and conferences for Tor Project staff and community members. - Maintain the Tor Project's website calendar of speaking engagements. ### The Tor Project Communication Channels - Manage the Tor Project's social media presence. Work with stakeholders (Community Team Lead, Fundraising Director and Applications Product Manager) to develop content for the Tor’s social media efforts. - Publish the Tor Project's monthly newsletter. - Maintain the Tor Project's Annual Report and other information pieces distributed at conferences and talks. - Organize online events such as Privchat and State of the Onion. - Internal Communications: support our Project Manager in organizing and communications for weekly All Hands meetings. ## Preferred Qualifications And Skills - Bachelor's degree (or equivalent comparable/relevant experience) in journalism, communications, marketing, public relations, or a closely related field. - A minimum of 5 - 7 years of progressive experience in Communications, including strategic communications leadership roles. - Demonstrated success developing and executing communications strategies and messaging across various media and channels. - Demonstrated skill and comfort in proactively building relationships with top tier reporters and editors, and in positioning subject matter with the media to achieve high-impact placements. - Demonstrated experience with complex and high profile social media engagement. - Comfortable with highly technical topics and ability to explain them clearly and accurately to non-technical audiences. - Excellent verbal, written, and editing skills in English; fluency in other languages is a plus. - Demonstrated experience with issue management, including media crisis management, and proven success in driving more advantageous coverage of the organization, its projects, and its people. - Strong project management skills with high attention to detail - Strong generalist understanding of the basic mechanics of how the Internet works, as well as issues related to privacy, security, censorship, and surveillance. - Must have an action-oriented and proactive working style - Knowledge of and appreciation for the Tor Project’s mission and the wider Internet Freedom movement. If you feel that you meet most of these requirements or could meet them with a little time and support, we would love to hear from you! ## How to Apply To apply, submit a cover letter and your CV/resume *in PDF format* to job-comms at torproject dot org with "Director of Strategic Communications" in the subject line. In your cover letter, please include the reason you want to work at the Tor Project, your experience as it relates to the job description, and where you heard about this job. ## About The Tor Project The Tor Project's workforce is smart, committed, and hard working. We currently have a paid and contract staff of around 42 developers and operational support people, plus many volunteers who contribute to our work and thousands of volunteers who run relays. The Tor Project is funded in part by government research and development grants, and in part by individual, foundation, and corporate donations. Tor is for everyone, and we are actively working to build a team that represents people from all over the world - people from diverse ethnic, national, and cultural backgrounds; people from all walks of life. We encourage people subject to systemic bias to apply, including people of color, indigenous people, LGBTQIA+ people, women, and any other person who is part of a group that is underrepresented in tech. The Tor Project has a strong culture of transparency and democratic processes, and long-standing community guidelines and cultural norms. Our community is committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming environment. Please read more here: - Our Code of Conduct: https://gitweb.torproject.org/community/policies.git/tree/code_of_conduct.t… - Our Social Contract: https://gitweb.torproject.org/community/policies.git/tree/social_contract.t… - Our Statement of Values: https://gitweb.torproject.org/community/policies.git/tree/statement_of_valu… The Tor Project has a competitive benefits package, including a generous PTO policy, 16 paid holidays per year (including the week between Christmas and New Year's, when the office is closed), and flexible work schedule. Insurance benefits vary by employment status and country of residence. Notice: Due to [U.S. sanctions and embargo regulations](https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/documents/regulation-docs/41…, The Tor Project, Inc. is not able to hire individuals with citizenship of certain countries, including but not limited to Russia, North Korea, Cuba, Iraq, Iran, and Syria. The Tor Project, Inc. is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.

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UX team meeting notes, June 14th
by Duncan Larsen-Russell 14 Jun '22

14 Jun '22

Hello, Thanks to everyone who made it to last week's UX Team meeting. We’re looking forward to seeing you all again soon today. Here are the minutes from last week: https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-06-07-16.00.lo… <https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-06-07-16.00.lo…> *** == User Experience Team Meeting == UX Team meetings happen every Tuesday at 1600 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. Here are the logs from our meeting on May 31st: http <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-31-15.59.log…>://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-31 <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-31-15.59.log…>-15.59.log.html <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-31-15.59.log…> And here are the logs from our meeting on June 7th: https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-06-07-16.00.lo… <https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-06-07-16.00.lo…> == Useful links == About the UX Team: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/team <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/team> UX repository: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux> UX roadmap: 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&…> Team kanban: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&label_name[]=UX… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&label_name[]=UX…> == Meetbot commands == - #startmeeting UX Team Weekly Meeting - #endmeeting --------------------------- Tuesday June 7th @ 16:00 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&…> 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&…> 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> S123 – Tor Secure Access Package for USAGM https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/34 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/34> == Announcements == New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 11.5a12 (Android, Windows, macOS, Linux) https://blog.torproject.org/ <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-115a12/>new-release-tor-browser-115a12 <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-115a12/>/ <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-115a12/> == Agenda == Evergreen items: 1. Announcements 📣 2. Weekly planning 📅 3. Check-in with user support 💬 == Weekly planning == Note: Please highlight anything you'd like to discuss below in **bold** duncan/donuts This week (planned): - Continue wireframes for the Tor VPN in ux/design#35 - Design mockup for the bundled tb-manual in applications/tor-browser#40885 - Design QA for TB 11.5a12 in applications/tor-browser#40911 - Finish and publish blog post to support the Community QA recruitment campaign in operations/communications#65 - Reivew Joydeep's notes for tb-manual updates Nah Last week (actual): - s101 interviews - transcribed interviews - worked on s30 to decide and plan activities for next Q, and Ecuador training - lost two days of work because of weather complications in airports This week (planned): - Review and map S30 UX activities - Schedule and run S101 interviews - Schedule, prepare and run S96 testing - will attend some sessions on RightsCon - gathering feedback for S9 materials Nicob Last week (actual): - Annual Report: finalized cover and back page after feedback, final report exported and is in progress of being added to torproject.org! - S123: continued QA with kez for USAGM sites, met with Raya to start brainstorming social campaign strategy, meeting with OTF - S30: Submitted first round of design QA amends with kez for BridgeDB pages: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/40051 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/40051> - Refined and exported tor browser icons as svgs in their respective states: connection + alt connection, onion padlocks, globes - Started pulling some visual design inspo for VPN app: https://www.figma.com/file/sjNWeIOpb0BckjmxApXd5m/Tor-VPN-designs?node-id=2… <https://www.figma.com/file/sjNWeIOpb0BckjmxApXd5m/Tor-VPN-designs?node-id=2…> This week (planned): - S30: Continued QA work on BridgeDB pages with Kez - Begin work on social teasers/graphics for Tor Browser 11.5 release - Continue workshopping tor network icon for browser Joydeep Check-in with user support: - monthly user support report: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2022-June/003391.html <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2022-June/003391.html> - changes to TB manual wrt 11.5 are live! ticket: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/manual/-/issues/119 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/manual/-/issues/119> preview the changes: https://championquizzer.pages.torproject.net/manual/ <https://championquizzer.pages.torproject.net/manual/> - numerous user reports of Tor being relatively slow (https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-is-much-slower-latterly-than-it-used-to-… <https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-is-much-slower-latterly-than-it-used-to-…>) == 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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Community Team meeting notes - June 13 2022
by gus 13 Jun '22

13 Jun '22

Hi, Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-06-13-13.59.log… And our meeting notes: Next meeting: Tuesday, Jun 21, 2022 - 1400 UTC ## Announcement - Tor Localization Hangout this Friday https://community.torproject.org/localization/hangouts/ ## Discussion - Next community team meeting -> June 21, 1400 UTC meeting on Tue because of the holiday -> June 27 - hackweek - no meeting -> July 5th, 1400 UTC meeting on Tue because of the holiday - (update) cdr.link migration: - new instance till the end of this month, and includes onboarding for more people on the team. - good opportunity to learn how it works. - Training in EA: - as we aren't travelling, we launched a call for Tor trainings in last Tor Meetup in the region. - we received 10 proposals, approved 9 or 8 - trainings will happen in tanzania, uganda and kenya this month and early july. - the majority of the trainings will be in person, some remote. - pad with all the topics that we want to discuss with the partners: https://pad.riseup.net/p/ea-trainings-2022 ## Updates emmapeel: Last week: - support i18n of OnionSproutsBot - answer questions, give suggestions, more screenshots, more instructions in context - digest translators input in transifex - s123 translations - keep verifying new langs - tor browser alpha - l10n and docs This week: - documentation - s123 - tor browser alpha - l10n and docs Help with: - let me know if you would like to review strings for your language. Gus: Last week: - Contact cdr.link and start the migration: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40083 - Review trainings proposals in EA: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/training/-/issues/50 - Organize the training material with AWJ: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/training/-/issues/48 - S30 Brazil plans with Tails/Sajolida - Work on the sysadmin 101 post-training form - team 1:1s - Sponsor96, sponsor123 and Sponsor9 meeting - Announced the Tor relay operator meetup: https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-relays-event-tor-relay-operator-meetup-j… - Worked with rhatto on the sponsor123 landing page deployment This week: - Share the sysadmin 101 post-training form - Follow up on EA trainings with nah and raya - More S30 planning - team 1:1s - working on the tor meetup agenda with geko: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-relay-meetup-june-2022-keep - sponsor123 meeting - Create a merge request for the Telegram verification: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/support/-/issues/304 Joydeep: Last week: - user support on RT, Forum, etc. - added info about HTTPS-Only mode and Bridge-moji to the TB Manual (alpha) ticket: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/manual/-/issues/119 preview: https://championquizzer.pages.torproject.net/manual/ - sync with Gus - discussed the monthly user support report with UX team - filed https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/41026 This week: - draft a forum post for TB 11.5 testing (pending blog post) - sync with the UX team - monthly L10n hangout on Friday raya: Last week: - EA meetup and training proposal follow ups - S123 coordination - RightsCon panel This week: - S123 coordination - EA training proposal 1:1s and follow ups - Review and prepare for AWJ training interpretation - Submit hackweek proposals - Complete material on internet shutdowns mitigation with Tor - Start drafting training guides Help with: - Something you need help with. rhatto: Last week: - Test Bypass Censorship Dashboard: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onion-support/-/issues/95 (Sponsor 123) - Deployments and fixes for Sponsor 123 This week: - Landing Page deployment for Sponsor 123 - Maintenance for Sponsor 123 EOTK and Onionprobe instances - Submit Hackweek proposal(s): https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onion-support/-/issues/116 Nina: Last week: - User support on cdr.link and RT. - Participating in running tests on TB availability - 1:1 with Gus - some help with the fonts issue in TB This week: - User support. - Migration of cdr.link - Hackweek proposal -- The Tor Project Community Team Lead

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Community Team meeting notes - June 06 2022
by gus 13 Jun '22

13 Jun '22

Hi, Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-06-06-13.59.log… And our meeting pad: ## Tor Community Team meeting pad - June 06th 2022 ## Announcement * New (Tor Browser) Alpha Tester Badges are now live on the forum! * (https://forum.torproject.net/badges/ see under 'Testing') * s123 looks like the nirvana of translation, and we will have a lot * of new locales :) * RightsCon is happening this week. Tor Project panel is happening today * (21:30 UTC): https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1532780724973031424 ## Discussion * Tor Browser User manual alpha release: - Please we need you to review the new strings ASAP: live version: https://championquizzer.pages.torproject.net/manual/ Main ticket: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/manual/-/issues/119 * Hackweek * sysadmin 101 post-training/follow up: - post training survey: https://pad.riseup.net/p/oGxxZxdP1gt2gC9KWEjk-survey-sysadmin101-keep ## Updates Gus: Last weeks: - Tor East Africa meetup - Tor training with Derechos Digitales and OLAD - Relay operator meetup - Relay operator sysadmin 101 with gman999, gaba, kushal: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/relays/-/issues/36 This week: - Contact cdr.link and start the migration: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40083 - Review trainings proposals in EA: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/training/-/issues/50 - Organize the training material with AWJ: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/training/-/issues/48 - S30 Brazil plans with Tails/Sajolida - Work on the sysadmin 101 post-training form - team 1:1s - Sponsor96 and Sponsor9 meeting Help with: - Find more users from China to do user research Joydeep: Last week: - updating the manual for Tor Browser 11.5 - Tor Browser Alpha testing (https://pad.riseup.net/p/tb-11-5-updates) - user support work on RT, cdr.link, Forum - Community activities: Sysadmin 101 workshop - Testing a new cdr.link/zammad instance - monthly report This week: - updating the manual TB 11.5 with Bridges emoji identification and QR code and HTTPS-only mode (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/manual/-/issues/119) - 1:1 sync with Gus - Sync with UX Team - Testing a new cdr.link/zammad instance (contd.) emmapeel: Last weeks: - Review updates for tb manual to send for translation - support s123 with last development - finish configuration for landing page new languages - think about training resources revamp This week: - tb manual updates - s123 support / landing page translators onboarding - stats for translations rhatto: Last weeks: - Wrote the EOTK Log Parser: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/eotk-log-parser (Sponsor 123) - Released Onionprobe 1.0.0: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionprobe/-/blob/main/Cha… (Sponsor 123) - Completed the Onionprobe instance deployment for Sponsor 123 This week: - Test Bypass Censorship Dashboard: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onion-support/-/issues/95 (Sponsor 123) - Deployments and fixes for Sponsor123 - Submit Hackweek proposal(s): https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onion-support/-/issues/116 Nina: Last weeks: - User support on cdr.link and RT - monthly report This week: - User support - TB Alpha testing - cdr.link migration? - Gus 1:1 raya: Last weeks: - S123 narrative reporting - S123 coordination - Finalize intro to onion services training material - Event: East Africa meetup - Event: Sync with localization lab - Event: Sysadmin 101 workshop - Event: Relay operator meetup This week: - Submit hackweek proposals - Complete material on internet shutdowns mitigation with Tor - Start drafting training guides - Start looking into updating training material based on TB 11.5 -- The Tor Project Community Team Lead

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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-06-09
by Shelikhoo 09 Jun '22

09 Jun '22

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-06-09-15.59.html <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-31-15.59.html> And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday June 16nd 16:00 UTC Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress) == Goal of this meeting == Weekly check-in about the status of anti-censorship work at Tor. Coordinate collaboration between people/teams on anti-censorship at Tor. == Links to Useful documents == * Our anti-censorship roadmap: * Roadmap: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/boards * The anti-censorship team's wiki page: * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/home * Past meeting notes can be found at: * https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/ * Tickets that need reviews: from sponsors we are working on: * All needs review tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/merge_requests?s… * Sponsor 28 * must-do tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10 * possible tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… * Sponsor 96 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24 == Announcements == * anti-censorship irc channel: #tor-anticensorship @ irc.oftc.net == Discussion == * Add an alert for dynamic bridges healthness(src Shell) * Internet filtering in Canada: \R\o\g\e\r\s' NHL blocking order (src Shell) * https://typefully.com/kaplanmyrth/internet-filtering-in-canada-rogers-nhl-T… * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31677867 * cecylia, itchy: reproducible? * Request for review: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/trac… * Need comments in https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/82 (add PT support to V2Ray to serve the role of HTTPT) == Actions == * == Interesting links == == Reading group == * We will discuss "Even Censors Have a Backup: Examining China's Double HTTPS Censorship Middleboxes" on June 23 * https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3473604.3474559 * Questions to ask and goals to have: * What aspects of the paper are questionable? * Are there immediate actions we can take based on this work? * Are there long-term actions we can take based on this work? * Is there future work that we want to call out in hopes that others will pick it up? == Updates == Name: This week: - What you worked on this week. Next week: - What you are planning to work on next week. Help with: - Something you need help with. cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2022-06-09 Last week: - reviews - opened MR for gotapdance library to redirect log output - https://github.com/refraction-networking/gotapdance/pull/89/files - finished getting conjure registrations working in a local test environment This week: - continued work on conjure PT - continue snowflake maintenance tasks Needs help with: dcf: 2022-06-09 Last week: - prepared information for snowflake bridge funding report for May 2022 Next week: - look at STATUS VERSION proposal https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/63 Help with: meskio: 2022-06-02 Last week: - use systemd to run bridgedb (team#72) - update debian package for snowflake (snowflake#40143) - don't use entropy in snowflake tests (snowflake!96) - contact cymru about their builtin bridges, as they have an old version of obfs4proxy Next week: - start working on gettor (rdsys#105) Shelikhoo: 2022-06-09 Last Week: - [Merge Request] Add Distributed Snowflake Server Support (snowflake!87) <- awaiting/blocked - [Merge Request] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (Javascript ver.) (snowflake-webext!29) <- awaiting/blocked - [Merge Request] Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow…) (snowflake!95) <- awaiting/blocked - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64) - [Discussion & Deployment] Migrating Controlling git repo to Tor Gitlab Instance (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#5) <- awaiting/blocked - [Research & Discussion] Discussion about the possibility of adding PT support to V2Ray to serve the role of HTTPT (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/82) - [Security Research & Analysis] *!#/Confidential/#!* https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/84#note_2811303 - [Merge Request Review] Draft: Use systemd unit services to run the daemons https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb-admin/-/merge_re… - [Merge Request Review] Draft: API to update dynamic bridges https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/merge_requests/41 Next Week: - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (continue) - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54) - [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3) - [Investigate] China "Anti-Fraud" Webpage Redirection Censorship (censorship-analysis#40026): update the research based on updated ooni result Itchy Onion: 2022-06-09 Last week: - continue working on snowflake !93 (add tests) - ongoing debugging s28 issue 81 (race conditions in broker) This week: - ongoing debugging s28 issues 81, there seems to be another issue - taking over testing snowflake in s28 because the original group couldn't run snowflake

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Tails report for May 2022
by intrigeri＠boum.org 09 Jun '22

09 Jun '22

Hi, Here are a few highlights about what we did in May, among many other things: * We implemented many improvements to the Tor Connection assistant. This makes is much easier for people in Asia to circumvent censorship. For details, see the Tails 5.1 release notes [1]. * We wrote a new homepage for the _Unsafe Browser_ when you are not connected to the Tor network yet. This new version makes it easier to understand how to sign in to the network using a captive portal. * We started organized training and usability tests sessions for August in Brazil. * Tails 5.0 was released on May 3 [2]. It was the first version of Tails based on Debian 11 (Bullseye) and brought new versions of a lot of the software included in Tails and new OpenPGP tools. * We started evaluating Mirrorbits to manage our download mirror pool. On top of decreasing the required maintenance work, this should make downloads of Tails faster and more reliable. * Tails has been started more than 769 997 times this month. This makes 24 838 boots a day on average. Cheers! Links: ------ [1] https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.1/index.en.html [2] https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.0/index.en.html

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Online Tor's hackweek from June 27th to July 1st
by Gaba 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

Hi! The Tor Project and Tor community is going to be gathering online from June 27th to July 1st this year for a 5 days hackweek. This is a call for projects for whoever wants to participate, put together a team and hack through that last week of June with us. In the context of this hackweek, a project is anything related to Tor that you can work with other people in 5 days. It could be a coding project or something to analyze data but it could also be a cartoon or anything that do not necessary requires coding skills. You will work on this project during 5 days with other people in your team. At the end we are going to have a demo in a Big Blue Button's room where your team will present the work you did through the week. This will be the timeline for the hackweek this year: June 9th: Send hackweek project proposals to this portal: https://hackweek.onionize.space/hackweek/. Before hackweek begins, start looking for other people to join your team. Monday, June 27th: Hackweek begins. The liasions for each project will present their projects in a BBB room published that day. By this time, you should have a few members of your team already identified. Hack hack hack hack... in whatever way you organize yourself. We will have the room #tor in irc.oftc.net to discuss general hackweek things. Friday, July 1st: Hackweek ends. Each team presents the work they did in a BBB room. We will be updating the list of projects in https://hackweek.onionize.space/hackweek/schedule/ . Each project will have one pad (you can use https://pad.riseup.net) with all information that people need to add themselves to that project. cheers, gaba

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Tor Browser Meeting Time Changed
by Richard Pospesel 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

Hi Everyone, We will be moving the weekly Tor Browser dev meetings to 1000 UTC (still on Mondays in #tor-meeting on OFTC) going forward. best, -Richard

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minutes from the TPA meeting
by Antoine Beaupré 07 Jun '22

07 Jun '22

Here are minutes from Monday. # Roll call: who's there and emergencies Anarcat, Kez, and Lavamind present. No emergencies. # Roadmap / OKR review Only one month left to the quarter! Where are we? As a reminder, we generally hope to accomplish 60-70% of OKRs, by design, so they're not supposed to be all done. [TPA OKRs][]: roughly 17% done * [mail services][] work has not started, the RFC proposal took longer than expected and we're waiting on a decision before starting any work * [Retirements][] might progress with a gitolite/gitweb retirement RFC spearheaded by anarcat * [codebase cleanup][] work has progressed only a little, often gets pushed to the side by emergencies * [Bullseye upgrade][] has only 6 machines left in the second batch. We need to close 3 more tickets to get at 60% on *that* OKR, and that's actually likely: the [second batch][] is likely to finish by the end of the month, the [primary ganeti cluster upgrade][] is planned, and the [PostgreSQL warnings][] will be done today * [High-performance cluster][]: "New Relic" is giving away money, we need to write a grant proposal in 3 days though, possibly not going to happen [TPA OKRs]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/roadmap/2022 [mail services]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/tpa/-/milestones/4 [retirements]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/tpa/-/milestones/1 [codebase cleanup]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/tpa/-/milestones/3 [bullseye upgrades]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/tpa/-/milestones/5 [second batch]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40692 [primary ganeti cluster upgrade]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40689 [PostgreSQL warnings]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40776 [High-performance cluster]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/tpa/-/milestones/2 [Web OKRs][]: 42% done overall! * The donate OKR is about 25% complete * translation OKR seems complete, no one has any TODO items on that anyways, so considered done (100%!) * docs OKR: * dev.tpo work hasn't started yet, might be possible to start depending on kez availability? * documentation improvement might be good for hack week [web OKRs]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/team/-/wikis/roadmap/2022 # Holidays Update on holiday dates, everyone agrees with the plan. Details are private, see tor-internal emails, and the Nextcloud calendars for the authoritative dates. # This week's All-Hands * lavamind will talk about the blog * if there is still time after, we can open for comments or questions about the mail proposal # Dashboard review We looked at the global dashboards: * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/boards/117 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/web/-/boards * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/tpa/-/boards ... and per-user dashboards, not much to reshuffle. # Icinga vs Prometheus again Validate requirements, discuss the alternatives. Requirements weren't ready, postponed. # Other discussions No other discussion came up. # Next meeting Next meeting is on a tuesday because of the holiday, we should talk about OKRs again, and the Icinga vs Prometheus question. # Metrics of the month * hosts in Puppet: 96, LDAP: 96, Prometheus exporters: 160 * number of Apache servers monitored: 29, hits per second: 299 * number of self-hosted nameservers: 6, mail servers: 8 * pending upgrades: 0, reboots: 0 * average load: 2.65, memory available: 4.32 TiB/5.91 TiB, running processes: 933 * disk free/total: 37.10 TiB/92.61 TiB * bytes sent: 411.24 MB/s, received: 289.26 MB/s * planned bullseye upgrades completion date: 2022-10-14 * [GitLab tickets][]: 183 tickets including... * open: 0 * icebox: 151 * backlog: 14 * next: 9 * doing: 5 * needs review: 1 * needs information: 3 * (closed: 2755) [Gitlab tickets]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/boards Upgrade prediction graph lives at https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/howto/upgrades/bullseye/ We have managed to still speed up our upgrades progression from last time, moving from December to October as a predicted completion date. That's not as fast as last estimate (2 years acceleration!) but it's still quite satisfying. -- Antoine Beaupré torproject.org system administration

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