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Community Team meeting notes - January 24 2022
by gus 25 Jan '22

25 Jan '22

Hi, Here's our meeting log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-24-13.59.log… And our meeting pad: Next meeting: Monday, January 31, 2022 - 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 * Outreachy - Gamification project update and next steps * User support/Telegram soft launch * RT backlog * Run a bridge campaign retrospective ## Updates Joydeep: This week: - Community Team OKRs - Testing the cdr.link user support platform - RT backlog Gus: This week: - Roadmapping with Isa and Gaba - Writing S9 new proposal - Meeting with Sajolida and TGP team about Tor trainings for S30 - Writing bridges campaign blog post and doing some logistics Miko: Last week: New resources here: UX insights, motivations and pain points https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/relays/-/issues/27 This week: - Ideation. Submitting ideas for gamification and gathering feedback (votes!) - Discussing interview prompts for Relay Operator interviews (specifically Exit Relay Ops) - Preparing an interview script for Relay Operators - Survey Analysis: Working on UX Survey analyses and observations Next week: - Picking best ideas and building mockups, understanding feasibility/viability of some features I'll pitch this week emmapeel: Last week: - Localization hangout - updates with loclab - translation previews in gitlab - emergency fund translations This week: - Translation previews in gitlab - prepare move to weblate - contact Chinese translators about support.tpo Nina: Last week: - Meetings participation - Responding to user requests (tickets) - The announcement translation - the cdr.link platform testing and discussion This week: - start of the user support via Telegram - complete the translation of the article -- The Tor Project Community Team Lead

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minutes from the sysadmin meeting (OKRs edition)
by Antoine Beaupré 25 Jan '22

25 Jan '22

Hi, At our first meeting of the year, we didn't have time to complete the web team OKRs and prioritization for the first quarter, so we scheduled another meeting to do this. Here are the minutes. We might have more of those emails in the weeks to come, as we have a bunch of brainstorms and planning sessions coming up. Let me know if this is too noisy... # Roll call: who's there and emergencies anarcat, kez, lavamind, linus joined us. # 2022 Q1/Q2 web OKRs gaba and anarcat previously established a proposal for a set of OKRs for the web team, which were presented during the meeting, and copied below: ## Proposal * OKR: make the donate page easier to maintain and have it support .onion donations ([milestone 22][]) * [new lektor frontend][] * [vanilla JS rewrite][] * [we can donate through the .onion][] * OKR: make it easier for translators to contribute (almost done! not ambitious enough?) * translators can find their own copy of the website without help * bring build time to 15 minutes to accelerate feedback to translators * allow the web team to trigger manual builds for reviews * OKR: improve documentation across the organization * [launch dev.tpo][] (Q2) * "Remove outdated documentation from the header", stop pointing to dead docs * we have a plan to fix the wiki situation so that people can find and search documentation easily [milestone 22]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/22 [new lektor frontend]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/donate-static/-/issues/37 [we can donate through the .onion]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/donate-static/-/issues/36 [vanilla JS rewrite]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/donate-static/-/issues/45 [launch dev.tpo]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/dev/-/issues/6 ## Progress update The translation CI work is already going steadily and could be finished in early Q1. We are probably going to keep prioritizing the donate page changes because if we postpone, it will be more work as updates are still happening on the current site, which means more rebasing to keep things in sync. ## Things that need to happen regardless of the OKRs We have identified some things that need to happen, regardless of the objectives. This key result, for example, was part of the "documentation" OKR, but seemed relevant to all teams anyways: * teams have less than 20 tickets across the three lists (backlog, next, doing), almost zero open (untriaged) tickets We also need to support those people as part of sponsored work: * s9 usability - Q1/Q2 * support web maintaince based on the UX feedback * Work on torproject.org usabilty issues based on user feedback * Work on community.torproject.org usabilty issues based on user feedback * Work on dev.torproject.org usabilty issues based on user feedback * phase 6 may bring more TPA work but we need to make the schedule for it with TPA * s30 - anti-censorship - Q1 * bridges.torproject.org - Q1 * s61 network performance - whole year * support the work on network simulation * s96 - china censorship - whole year * support snowflake scaling * support rdsys deployment * support moat distribution * support HTTP PT creation * support monitoring bridge health * support creation and publication of documentation * support localization * s123 - USAGM sites - Q1/Q2 * support the project on onion sites deployments * most of the work will be from February to April/May * new onion SRE and community person starting in February Non-web stuff: * resurrect bridge port scan * do not scan private IP blocks: kez talked with cohosh/meskio to get it fixed, they're okay if kez takes maintainership * make it pretty: done Some things were postponed altogether: * decide if we switch to Weblate is postponed to Q3/Q4, as we have funding then We observed that some of those tasks are already done, so we may need to think more on the longer term. On the other hand, we have a lot of work to be done on the TPA side of things, so no human cycles will be wasted. # Prioritise the two set of OKRs Next we looked at the above set of OKRs and the [2022 TPA OKRs][] to see if it was feasible to do *both*. [2022 TPA OKRs]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/roadmap/2022 Clearly, there was too much work, so we're considering ditching an OKR or two on TPA's side. Most web OKRs seem attainable, although some are for Q2 (identified above). For TPA's OKRs, anarcat's favorites are mail services and retire old services, at least come up with proposals in Q1. lavamind suggested we also prioritize the bullseye upgrades, and noted that we might not want to focus directly on RT as we're unsure of its fate. We're going to prioritise mail, retirements and upgrades. New cluster and cleanup can still happen, but we're at least pushing that to Q2. We're going to schedule work sessions to work on the mail and upgrades plans, specifically, and we're hoping to have an "upgrade work party" where we jointly work on upgrading a bunch machines at once. # Other discussions No other discussion took place. # Next meeting TPA mail plan brainstorm, 2022-01-31 15:00 UTC, 16:00 Europe/Stockholm, 10:00 Canada/Eastern -- Antoine Beaupré torproject.org system administration

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Community Team meeting notes - January 19 2022
by gus 24 Jan '22

24 Jan '22

Hi, Here's our meeting log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-19-12.59.log… And our meeting pad: ## Community Team Meeting pad 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 * (update) user support on Telegram: * Deployment: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40578 * Planning: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40059 * Tor translations in Chinese (S96 work) * Community Team OKrs, 1:1 and team organization ## Updates Joydeep: Last week: - Tor Browser 11.0.4 support - Reviewed one pending Gitlab ticket This week: - RRF meeting (done) - Tor Browser Alpha 11.5a2 support and testing - Montly L10n Hackathon Help with: - Gus: This week: - Sponsor9/30 training materials - Dynamic bridge health in Russia: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40054 - Writing Bridges campaign wrap up blog post: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/relays/-/issues/24 - Outreachy mentorship work - Meeting with ux team about user feedback collection - Meeting with sajolida to discuss S30 work in Mexico Help with: - Something you need help with. Miko: Last week: - Competitive Audit (and Report) https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/relays/-/issues/29 - blog post to understand motivations and gamification better: https://mikoing.wordpress.com/2022/01/15/what-is-fun-kids/ Next week: - Relay Operator Survey analysis report Help with: - Call for ideation - freely send your ideas about how to incentivise relay operators for their great contributions! No ideas, too wild! Nina: Last week: - Tickets from Kazakhstan (shutdown) - Bridges request and basic troubleshooting around them - Translations - articles, website - Support on #Tor User Support This week: - RRF meeting - User support on multiple channels emmapeel: Last week: - still landing from NYE, lots of backlog This week: - there are problems with our translation.git bot - translation websites previews - move to weblate - l10n hangout Help with: - I need help from tpa to fix the translation previews. -- The Tor Project Community Team Lead

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Network Team - Upcoming 0.3.5.18 tor.git release - January 2022
by David Goulet 21 Jan '22

21 Jan '22

Greetings everyone! This week, the network team will release (likely on Friday) tor 0.3.5.18 (from tor.git, not arti ;) which will also be the very last version of the LTS 0.3.5.x series. On February 1st 2022, 0.3.5.x will be end-of-life and so this will close the chapter of this LTS in favor of the 0.4.5.x series as the latest LTS. You can find our release schedule here: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/team/-/wikis/NetworkTeam/CoreTorRele… (Keep in mind that it is a best effort and not everything on that page is set in stone.) As a reminder, 0.4.7.x is still in alpha stage as we are finalizing network congestion control which is quite large and complex. We will only release a stable when we consider it ready for which we are very hopeful to be well within the first half of 2022. Keep an eye out! Upcoming version: - 0.3.5.18 @network-team: It is _now_ a good time to start reviewing changes/ files: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/tree/release-0.3.5/changes Last, we've asked the directory authorities to recommend this new version some minutes ago. Cheers! David -- 4+F4wjk7FBUF50LsbGBE3Mdsr5O7ugc/Fs02hg+sIf4=

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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-01-20
by Cecylia Bocovich 20 Jan '22

20 Jan '22

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-20-15.59.html And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday January 20th 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 checkin about the status of anti-censorship work at Tor. Coordinate collaboration between people/teams on anti-censorship at Tor. == Announcements == == Discussion == resume posting weekly meeting notes? no strong feeling either way, but cohosh will resume because our discussion notes are worth saving Kazakhstan shutdown shutdown ended 2022-01-11, and nothing new noticed since then China "Anti-Fraud" Webpage Redirection Censorship https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/iss… Reply from censored planet: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/iss… currently have no access to an affected vantage point RIPE Atlas? want to be able to test a large custom list of domains, to find out (1) which are being blocked, and (2) whether the blocklist is the same in different networks in China snowflake bridge load balancing migration next week? https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… dcf can set up a server with adequate resources and the same keys change DNS to use this staging server while we make configuration changes on the main server change DNS back when finished eclips.is (Greenhost) is having issues, a VPS with similar resources is $100–200 / month, not a problem if only used for staging for a week or so whom to contact about changing snowflake.torproject.net DNS records? snowflake.bamsoftware.com and snowflake.freehaven.net are already CNAMEs for snowflake.torproject.net, so we only need to change the one https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/ good idea to set a short TTL before making the change still don't now what to do about onion key rotation, short of patching tor, or hacking LastRotatedOnionKey in the state file Copy TLS keys in addition to Tor's keys Reading group? 2022-02-03 == Actions == == Interesting links == https://fightcensorship.tech/ Icarus Project, an online repository for documented Internet censorship circumvention techniques and methods https://internews.org/resource/optimashutdownworkflow/ The OPTIMA Internet Shutdowns Advocacy Workflow == Reading group == We will discuss "Meteor: Cryptographically Secure Steganography for Realistic Distributions" on 2022-02-03 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3460120.3484550 https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/686 https://meteorfrom.space/ 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 2022-01-20 Last week: - commented on snowflake metrics churn - lots of reviews - look at obfs4 vulnerability - documented reachability probe tests for shell - gave shell access to probe site in china - created MR to close NAT check peer connections snowflake-webext!25 This week: - more reviews - finish documenting and cleaning up shadow simulation scripts - use these snowflake + shadow scripts to do more performance testing Needs help with: dcf: 2022-01-20 Last week: - tried to reproduce the snowflake webextension disabling screen lock https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - did brief code inspection of probetest https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - disabled our standalone snowflake proxies to free up more CPU https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - set up another load-balanced snowflake bridge, this time with the same identity keys https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-relays-how-to-reduce-tor-cpu-load-on-a-s… - noticed and posted about upstream obfs4 vulnerability fixes https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2022-January/00… https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2022-January/00… Next week: - do the load balanced snowflake bridge installation again, this time on a production-capable host Help with: agix:2021-01-13 Last week: - Busy with work on Censored Planet Next week: - Continue work on gettor-twitter Help with: - arlolra: 2022-01-20 Last week: - [added 2022-01-20 by dcf] ALPN support for pion DTLS https://github.com/pion/dtls/pull/415 Next week: - Figure out where in pion/webrtc ALPN should be configured and used - Maybe add Chacha20Poly1305 to pion/dtls https://github.com/pion/dtls#planned-features https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… Help with: - maxb: 2021-09-23 Last week: - Worked on https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… re: utls for broker negotiation - Had conversation with someone about upstream utls http round tripper https://github.com/refraction-networking/utls/pull/74 - Too busy with work :/ Next week: - _Really_ want to get a PR for utls round tripper meskio: 2022-1-20 Last week: - metrics bridge distributor metrics for rdsys (rdsys#67) - don't distribute private bridges in rdsys (rdsys#84) - plan with TPA the test deployment of bridgedb (tpa/team#40581) - add country list to circumnvetion API (rdsys#83) - review snowlfake's event bus (snowflake!67) - telegram bot weekly rotation of bridges Next week: - select the type of bridges distributed by each distributor (rdsys#63) - test deployment for the new rdsys/bridgedb setup (rdsys#12) Shelikhoo: 2022-01-20 Last Week: - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake(snowflake!64) - [Merge Request Awaiting] Multi-arch docker image support with Dockerfile refactor for probetest(probetest!1) - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add callbacks in the client for key events during snowflake connections(snowflake#40076) - [Merge Request Pending] Privacy preserving stats in Snowflake standalone proxy(snowflake#40079) - [Discussion] Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn(snowflake#34075) - [Discussion] Proposal: Support for Dynamic IP obfs4 bridges with unattended proxy information update(aka "Subscription") - [Discussion] Proposal: Push Notification Based Signaling Channel - [Investigate] Is there a better moat/snowflake SNI than cdn.sstatic.net? (snowflake#40068) - [Investigate] Multi-instance Load Balanced Tor - Snowflake Deployment - [Investigate] China "Anti-Fraud" Webpage Redirection Censorship(censorship-analysis#40026) Next Week: - [Discussion] Designing the Container Layout for rdsys - [Discussion] Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn(snowflake#34075) - [Discussion] Proposal: Push Notification Based Signaling Channel - [Discussion] rdsys Deployment Environment - [Merge Request] Add callbacks in the client for key events during snowflake connections(snowflake#40076) - [Discussion] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector HackerNCoder: 2021-12-16 This week: Last/done: Setup web mirror on tor.encryptionin.space Next: Get (new VPs with) new IP and setup new web mirror on new domain hanneloresx: 2021-3-4 Last week: - Submitted MR for bridgestrap issue #14 Next week: - Finish bridgestrap #14 - Find new issue to work on Help with: -

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UX team meeting notes, January 18th
by Duncan Russell 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Hello, Thanks to everyone who made it to today's UX Team meeting! We’re looking forward to seeing you all again in a week’s time on January 25th. Here are the minutes: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-18-17.59.log… <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-18-17.59.log…> Today we introduced or newest team-member, announced Tor Browser’s 11.0.4’s release, and discussed our tentative plan to deprecate the UX team mailing list in favor of the forum. *** == User Experience Team Meeting == UX Team meetings happen every Tuesday at 1700 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. Here are the logs from our last meeting on January 18th: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-11-16.59.log… <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-11-16.59.log…> == 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…> -------------------------- Tuesday January 18th 18:00 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> == Announcements == * The UX Team welcomes our newest member: Nico (nicob)! * Tor Browser 11.0.4 Release (desktop only): https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1104/ <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1104/> == Agenda == 1. Announcements 2. Weekly planning 3. UX mailing list deprecation == Weekly planning == Note: Please highlight anything you'd like to discuss below in **bold** Duncan Last week (actual): - Onboarded new team-member - Made sure the YEC is taken down on desktop and web - Tor Browser 11.0.4 launch support - Reviewed the Q4 2021 roadmap - Set up new team kanban - Split out torconenct design into three tickets: - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/29590 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/29590> - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40780 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40780> - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40782 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40782> - Started a script for the planned tor-qa survey This week (planned): - Finish nicob's onboarding - Continue torconnect ticket wrangling - Get up to speed on the VPN project - Contribute to review of Tor QA practises - Review remote user research methodology for S9 Nah Last week (actual): - ECC meetings - meetings to brainstorm and align new project phase S9 - exploring the last VPN survey for new insights and next steps S101 - started to brainstorm use case and features for VPN - updated User Research portal website - many 1:1 to align and plan user research for this quarter This week (planned): - Collect user feedback on community forum: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/45 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/45> - Report user feedback on community forum: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/46 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/46> - bring more use cases and features for VPN - think on ways to collaborate our User Research with other groups, and meeting with Sajolida to explore new paths in the same subject - (if have time) work on User Research Plan for volunteers Nicob Last week (actual): - First day and onboarding! - Read through mid-point deliverable of Brand Analysis from Berkeley Group - Explored design concepts for donate page banner This week (planned): - More onboarding? - Exploring design concepts for blog post: Vanguard of Browser Privacy - Begin researching/exploring visual direction for comms 2022 - Design new wordmark & lockup for Tor browser - Read through Berkeley Group final deliverable Joydeep (championquizzer) [Community Team work] This week (planned): - user support work (priority this week: users in .ru and .kz) - Gitlab to-do/reviews: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&state=opened&as… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&state=opened&as…> == 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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UX team meeting moved to 1800 UTC on Tuesday, January 18th
by Duncan Russell 14 Jan '22

14 Jan '22

Hi everyone! Our next User Experience Team meeting will be held one hour later at 1800 UTC on Tuesday January 18th in #tor-meeting.* https://pad.riseup.net/p/1D8sK8Zy74b_0qclC97I-ux-team-monthly-2020-keep <https://pad.riseup.net/p/1D8sK8Zy74b_0qclC97I-ux-team-monthly-2020-keep> This should be a one-off, and we’ll be back to our usual time of 1700 UTC from Tuesday January 25th onwards. Remember, User Experience team meetings are an open space for discussion around ethical user research, user interface design and the user experience of privacy-enhancing products. See you soon! Duncan [*] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/team/-/wikis/home <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/team/-/wikis/home> *** Duncan Larsen-Russell Product Manager & UX Team Lead duncan(a)torproject.org <mailto:duncan@torproject.org>

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Community Team meeting notes - 2022-01-10
by gus 14 Jan '22

14 Jan '22

Hello, Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-10-14.00.log… And our meeting pad: ## Tor Community Team meeting pad Next meeting: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 - 1300 UTC ## 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-… * Internet shutdown in Kazakhstan: - Metrics: https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2021-10-1… - https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-combined.html?start=2021-10… ## Discussion * Gamification project update: - main ticket: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/relays/-/issues/26 - Survey status - Next steps: survey report and scheduling interviews * Internet shutdown in Kazakhstan: - New Support guide: https://forum.torproject.net/t/internet-shutdown-in-kazakhstan-how-to-circu… - https://www.reddit.com/r/onions/comments/s04xvp/sos_from_kazakhstan_need_br… * Tor user support in Telegram: - What's the scope? - Onboarding, testing phase, public launch * Bridges campaign: - Status - network growth: - 2021-11-17: 1252 bridges - 2022-01-10: 2289 bridges - TODO: - Write a blog post wrapping up the campaign - Keep testing bridges till EOY - Delivery the first reward on January ## Updates Name: Last week: - What you worked on last week. This week: - What you are you planning to work on this week. Help with: - Something you need help with. Gus: This week: - Writing Bridges campaign wrap up blog post - Bridge Campaign: contacting bridge operators to confirm that their bridges are working. - Meeting about ECC and Onion-SRE positions - Monitoring Telegram bridges reachability in Russia: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40054 - Russia: contacting operators to rotate their bridges' IP addresses. Working on a template. - Sponsor9: writing up new project phase (June 2022 - June 2023). - Setting up telegram support channel with nina - Outreachy: Wrapping up relay operator survey with miko Joydeep: This week: - Backlog of frontdesk tickets - Gitlab to-do/reviews: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&state=opened&as… Nina: This week: - Responding to user queries (from Russian and KZ); - Translation if necessary; - Adding new article on access to the onion services resources. Hepl with: - Help with resolving some tickets. Miko: This week: - Starting data analysis on UX survey for relay operators gamification project https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/relays/-/issues/27 - Sharing a competitive audit report on Tor's competitors and other volunteer-based gamification strategies active - Setting up UX interviews with Tor Relay Operators who opted in Help with: - Looking for suggestions for good gamification examples to include in the audit report Next week: - Gathering feedback on competitive audit report and UX survey analysis emmapeel: This week: - Come back from vacations, check on translations status - move to weblate - translations preview if possible with lavamind -- The Tor Project Community Team Lead

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Tor Browser meeting moved to 2022-01-18 @ 1500 UTC
by Richard Pospesel 14 Jan '22

14 Jan '22

Hi everyone, Given the holiday on Monday, we'll be moving the weekly Tor Browser meeting to Tuesday the 18th (same time, same place). Meeting pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-tbb-keep best, -Richard

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OONI Monthly Report: December 2021
by Maria Xynou 14 Jan '22

14 Jan '22

Hello, OONI's December 2021 status report is shared below. *# OONI Monthly Report: December 2021* Throughout December 2021, the OONI team worked on the following sprints: * Sprint 53 (1st-5th December 2021) * Sprint 54 (6th-19th December 2021) Our work can be tracked through the various OONI GitHub repositories: https://github.com/ooni Highlights are shared in this report below. *## Published report on Tor blocking in Russia* We published a report documenting the blocking of Tor in Russia based on OONI data. Read the report here: https://ooni.org/post/2021-russia-blocks-tor/ Our report shares OONI data and analysis on the blocking of the Tor network and Tor Project website on some AS networks in Russia. Wired also published a story on Tor blocking in Russia, sharing OONI data and findings: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/russia-block-tor-censorship *## Year in Review: OONI in 2021* In December 2021, we published our annual end-of-year post, "Year in Review: OONI in 2021", which shares: * OONI highlights from 2021 * Exciting OONI activities by community members in 2021 * Upcoming OONI projects in 2022 You can read this post here: https://ooni.org/post/ooni-in-2021/ Warm thanks to our amazing community for making our work possible! We thank every OONI Probe user out there, and we're excited for 2022! *## Published blog post about OONI Probe integration into iThena* iThena (https://root.ithena.net/) is a distributed computation and measurement project based on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform. In December 2021, we published a blog post where we discussed how iThena helped boost OONI censorship measurement coverage worldwide by integrating OONI Probe into their platform. This blog post is available here: https://ooni.org/post/2021-ithena-boosts-ooni-measurement-coverage/ *## Published guest post by The Bachchao Project* In October 2021, we participated in the Bachchao Project’s 2-day event (“India, Let’s Build the List”) where we helped facilitate sessions for communities in India to update the Citizen Lab’s test list for India. In December 2021, we published the Bachchao Project’s guest blog post about the event on the OONI website: https://ooni.org/post/2021-event-india-test-list/ *## OONI Probe Mobile* We released OONI Probe Mobile 3.5.0 for Android ( https://github.com/ooni/probe-android/releases/tag/v3.5.0) and iOS ( https://github.com/ooni/probe-ios/releases/tag/v3.5.0) This release includes the following improvements: * Automated testing for instant messaging app tests (WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Signal, Telegram) * Automated testing for circumvention tool tests (Tor, Psiphon, RiseupVPN) * Automated testing requires at least 20% of battery level * OONI Probe CLI updated to 3.13.0 * Bug fixes Following this release, OONI Probe mobile app users can run all OONI Probe tests (excluding the bandwidth-intensive performance tests) automatically on a regular basis. We expect that this will not only help boost OONI measurement coverage further, but it will also be helpful in ensuring that social media apps and circumvention tools (both of which are frequently blocked around the world) are more regularly tested. We started making improvements to how we do testing of the OONI Probe apps by doing integration testing of all components inside of a mono-repo ( https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1926) We also worked towards addressing OONI Probe technical debt ( https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1808) *## OONI Probe Web* We now have a working prototype of OONI Probe Web ( https://github.com/ooni/probe-web) that implements the full functionality. Features of OONI Probe Web currently include: * Informed consent onboarding process ( https://github.com/ooni/probe-web/pull/1) * Communication with the check-in API for receiving test-list targets; * Submission of measurements to the testing collector ( https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1494) Unlike the OONI Probe apps, OONI Probe Web is limited to website testing. The prototype includes a feature that enables users to determine if they would like to limit their testing to a specific number of URLs. *## Integrating tor into OONI Probe* We completed the integration of tor into OONI Probe Mobile and OONI Probe Desktop (https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1867) It is now possible to use go-libtor when it's available. We switch between using go-libtor or searching for the tor binary in the path by using build constraints. The branch that integrates this work is the following: https://github.com/ooni/probe-cli/pull/614 We also integrated tor into OONI Probe Desktop ( https://github.com/ooni/probe-desktop/pull/261) and into OONI Probe CLI ( https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1872, https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1866) *## Expanding censorship measurement methodologies* We released OONI Probe CLI 3.13 ( https://github.com/ooni/probe-cli/releases/tag/v3.13.0) through which users can now run our new DNScheck experiment ( https://github.com/ooni/spec/blob/master/nettests/ts-028-dnscheck.md) This release (along with our 3.13-beta and 3.14-alpha releases made in December 2021) includes a series of other improvements to our experiments and measurement methodologies (https://github.com/ooni/probe-cli/releases) as well as updated dependencies. *## OONI Measurement Aggregation Toolkit (MAT)* We continued to make improvements to the OONI Measurement Aggregation Toolkit (MAT). In particular, we improved the usability of the one-dimensional charts, we fixed a tooltip rendering issue, we resized the panels for the charts and table, we fixed issues with non-measurement-start-day based charts, we fixed the sorting order of the table, and we worked on other UI improvements (https://github.com/ooni/explorer/issues/624) We also added support for displaying the various blocking types (DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP-failure, HTTP-diff) as an axis value in the MAT charts. Improvements to the MAT can be viewed through commits made in the following pull request: https://github.com/ooni/explorer/pull/622 *## OONI backend* In December 2021, we continued to make progress on migrating our backend infrastructure to Clickhouse (https://github.com/ooni/pipeline/pull/371) To this end, we worked on: * Switching more tables over to Clickhouse and improving test coverage; * Implementing Clickhouse in our fastpath data processing pipeline; * Implementing the Clickhouse feeder; * Updating JSONL table in Clickhouse from feeder; * Updating CI to test Clickhouse; * Splitting the platform in tiers; * Adding a deletion flag on the uploader; * Re-importing the JSONL table and rebuilding the fastpath table with the domain column. We also worked on the following backend activities: * Implemented an integrated API/fastpath multi-host dashboard; * Added backend support for Tor Snowflake experiment feature extraction ( https://github.com/ooni/pipeline/pull/372) * Added backend support for extracting Tor Snowflake runtime metrics and exposing them via a new API endpoint (https://github.com/ooni/api/pull/274) * Handled upcoming VM reboots; * Continued to monitor OONI measurement coverage from unattended runs on OONI Probe Mobile and Desktop. *## Established new partnership with Zaina Foundation* In December 2021, we established a new partnership with Tanzania's Zaina Foundation (https://zainafoundationtz.org/) Over the past year, we had already been collaborating with Zaina Foundation, who facilitated OONI training for women human rights defenders in Tanzania, conducted usability studies for OONI Probe and OONI Explorer, and translated OONI Probe to Swahili. We are therefore thrilled to have now formalized our partnership with Zaina Foundation, and we’re excited for our ongoing collaboration over the next few years. To highlight Zaina Foundation’s important work, we published a new page on the OONI Partners page: https://ooni.org/partners/zaina-foundation/ *## OONI website### New Donate page* In December 2021, we published a new Donate page on the OONI website: https://ooni.org/donate/ Through this page, we aim to encourage donations in support of OONI’s work. *### Edited various OONI webpages* We edited and updated the copy of several web pages on the OONI site. In particular, we edited the About page ( https://github.com/ooni/ooni.org/pull/1041) we updated the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section (https://github.com/ooni/ooni.org/pull/1042) and we restructured and edited the Nettests section ( https://github.com/ooni/ooni.org/pull/1043) We also *## Hosting an OTF Information Controls Fellow* As of December 2021, we started to serve as the host organization for Open Technology Fund (OTF) Information Controls research fellow, Gurshabad Grover (https://twitter.com/OpenObservatory/status/1471454369866719237) During his 1-year research fellowship with us, Gurshabad aims to uncover how ISPs, through their technical decisions, can exacerbate or minimize the effects of state-ordered censorship. *## Community activities### PiProbe* Our Venezuelan partners, Venezuela Inteligente, created a new OONI Probe distribution for Raspberry Pis, called “PiProbe” ( https://github.com/VEinteligente/PiProbe) On 15th December 2021, they presented PiProbe to collect feedback from the OONI team and broader community. *## Userbase* In December 2021, 39,609,318 OONI Probe measurements were collected from 2,785 AS networks in 165 countries around the world. This information can also be found through our measurement stats on OONI Explorer (see chart on “monthly coverage worldwide”): https://explorer.ooni.org/ ~ OONI team.

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