Notes for April 5 2018 meeting:
Roger: 1) Brave is integrating Tor into their browser and this means we're going to have some trademark questions to answer soon ("no, those are Tor Private Tabs. Of course they're less safe than Tor Browser. Why are you so confused?"). Also, they could be convinced to run relays and/or donate for running relays. We should hook up Steph and Shari with their press people. And we need somebody to take point on this relationship. [Conclusion: this isn't just Brave, it's Cliqz, Mozilla, Facebook, etc who are working to integrate Tor into their things. We're going to get together a team of people -- dev, press, relay capacity, etc to try to handle the question more generally.] 2) Steph: Status on Rightscon booth plan? Plans for three bonus Rightscon tickets? [steph: we're on track for a free, half day booth. waiting to hear about time slot.] 3) Mike: you sent the google recaptcha mail right? [GeKo: I got copied, so it seems "yes"]
Mike: 1) Sent mail to a DoS engineer I know at Google. No reply. 2) tor-dev things
Georg: 1) We are almost done with putting our final roadmap in place and started to work according to it 2) We worked with the UX team on the improved circuit display and security controls, exciting! 3) We did the first two interviews for the Android related position
Nick: 1) Nothing much happening. Isabela and I are doing more regular meetings with team members who wanted them. 2) Will 0.3.3-stable come out on 15 April? Probably not, but 0.3.3-rc is possible. 3) Trying to read all Summer of Privacy applications later today; I'm behind there, and need to catch up. 4) Trying to triage all the 034 tickets with my team.
Steph: 1) The DDG Privacy Challenge ends April 10. If we raise $500 this week (tues-tues), we get $2,000. $153 left to go as of April 5 14:00 UTC 2) Submitted for a half day booth at RightsCon, waiting to hear about time slot. 3) Helping with the next nyc meetup 4) Edited multiple blog posts 5) Finalizing donor material on onion services 6) Talking through going to Def Con so I can get a better feel for it to make future proposals.
Alison: 1) did a workshop at the Texas Library Association conference in Dallas yesterday; it was good! 2) big priority today is getting a bunch of sponsor9 tasks done (organizing with our contacts, getting our materials together, etc). 3) code of conduct vote is still happening. please vote! 4) working on a new meeting time for the community team 5) waiting on sysadmins to create a new mailing list for meeting planning; once that's done I'll coordinate with the meeting planning group that formed in Rome 6) in the meantime I'm helping Jon some with Mexico City related tasks 7) preparing for a talk in June at the French librarian's congress in La Rochelle 8) more LFI prep, lots of curriculum development 9) reviewing community liaison applicants!!!! 10) helping some with next NYC Tor meetup 11) way behind on writing community team roadmap but it's on my list! 12) Tommy is actively seeking funding for global south meeting/meetup related stuff 13) privacy meetups in Pune, India (run by kushal) seem to be going well and are happening regularly 14) are people nominating volunteers for special swag and glory? make sure your team is doing this and telling kat5! [ux team is so little i am checking tho:isabela] 15) sukhe has been working with the Toronto Public Library to help further their Tor Browser program (they're doing a pilot in one library and then eventually want to be TB on all public computers, then run an exit!!!!!!!) 16) Phoul is working on a new proposal to deal with the endless frontdesk@ queue 17) Phoul is also making progress on all the Outreachy and Summer of Privacy tasks 18) I sent you all an email with the list of invitees from Rome. let's start preliminary planning who we want to invite to Mexico City.
Arturo: 1) Published our research on how we are going to approach developing a methodology for investigating internet blackouts: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/investigating-internet-blackouts/Investigat... (announcement blog post: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/investigating-internet-blackouts/) 2) Published a blog post on the internet blackout in Sierra Leone following the elections: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/sierra-leone-network-disruptions-2018-elect... in collaboration with Campaign for Human Rights and Development International 3) Will soon publish March report 4) Did some research and wrote a statement for the Internet Sans Frontier press release on the shutdown of social media in Chad: https://internetwithoutborders.org/chad-is-blocking-social-media-and-messagi... 5) Reached prototype quality version of OONI Probe desktop for macOS: https://github.com/openobservatory/ooniprobe-desktop. Golang is the winner of the language war for writing the CLI interface. 6) Some progress on the Tor-in-MeasurementKit integration: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23846
Karsten: 1) Wrote a first draft document containing approximately 2500 words with a graph specification of the relay users graph and sent it Tor folks outside of the metrics team for an initial review. 2) Discussed which Java frameworks to include in the white paper about CollecTor's data processing.
Isabela: 1) Decided to 'wave my tail' to all sponsors - pinging people on different things such as status of proposals that are under review, or status of proposals we are executing or proposals we just finished. 2) Besides these personal emails I am also writing reports (big reports month this month) 3) catching up on tasks w/ ux team and services/infra - finishing organizing roadmaps on gitlab kanban (yeah we are doing that) and finishing old open tasks from ux work that are on my plate 4) many meetings, new ones are: 1:1:1 with nick and folks from network team who requested those; wednesdays ux team meetings in April will be focus on Tor Browser work; fridays on sponsor9 (aka website stuff) work; sync with tommy on fridays too to follow up on censorship team work and grant proposals.
Shari: 1) on my way to San Francisco for a bunch of meetings through the weekend 2) getting Heather (new CFGO) acclimated 3) moving to next round on ED search 4) writing job description for development (fundraising) director 5) choosing new auditor and finishing 990 for 2016 (hopefully this week)