Notes for November 9 2017 meeting:
Alison: 1) Submitted Tor 'State of the Onion' proposal to LibrePlanet 2) Montreal meeting survey responses: I just compiled them and I'll share with this group sometime in the coming week. Overall, very positive feedback for the meeting, and lots of requests about improving the open days. 3) Speaking in Paris next week! 4) Anyone have any idea when we can start submitting talk ideas to HOPE? 5) Coordinating with other teams on user support/support related feedback 6) Phoul is making plans to translate the website, starting with the Downloads page. 7) Phoul and I are working on a blog post to encourage new relay operators 8) Doing a lot of work to prepare for LFP's new IMLS grant (starts in December)
Georg: 1) Done with a security release (7.0.9, 7.5a7) which was tricky as we only have a workaround which was incomplete first and breaks functionality; furthermore it did cost a lot of time at the end of Sponsor4; thanks again to Filippo Cavallarin + Mozilla and all the others that helped to make this a less bumpy experience than it could have been 2) We are trying to wrap up all remaining pieces for Sponsor4 this month
Nick: 1) Onward with releases! 0.3.2 stability is a priority; work on 0.3.3 is slowing a bit because of that... but it's important. 2) Promising discussion with mozilla folks earlier this week. I should make sure that at least some folks attending moz all-hands are briefed on the issues that the moz folks were interested in.
Arturo: 1) Many from the OONI team will be at the OTF summit next week (I will probably miss the vegas meeting) 2) We got nominated for the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award for the Digital Activism category (see: https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2016/11/awards-2017/) and we are writing answers to their questions to hopefully get shortlisted. 3) Various 34c3 logistics. We have an OONI assembly at 34c3: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/wiki/index.php/Assembly:OONI-verse. Is Tor going to have a presence at 34c3? Should we join forces? 4) Circulated a call for volunteers to work with us on developing a methodology to measure internet blackouts in regions affected the most: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/ooni-talk/2017-November/000090.html 5) Gave an interview to an Italian TV channel about the TorMoil bug. 6) Maria gave a presentation about OONI at FSCONS in Norway 7) Simone started a ICFP fellowship at MLAB this month for on year to work on Measurement Kit 8) We contributed to the Citizen Lab's submission to the UN by providing relevant OONI data: https://citizenlab.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Final-UNSRVAG-CitizenLab.pd... 9) Making progress on the mobile app revamping mockup.
Karsten: 1) Put draft specification of Tor web server logs on Tor Metrics. https://metrics.torproject.org/web-server-logs.html 2) Discussed next steps for writing better notifications for metrics services and a unified Java package naming scheme for all metrics code bases. https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2017-November/000523.htm... 3) Made some sample IPv6 graphs for Tor Metrics. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23761#comment:6 4) Made mockups for adding metrics timeline entries underneath graphs. https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2017-November/000525.htm...
Steph: 1) Enjoying being in Seattle 2) Working on comms strategy 3) Lining up blog content, fundraising emails, newsletter, post on Nyx out yesterday 4) Tweets, tweets, tweets 5) Fundraising: we're up to ~72k, 144k with match
Brad: 1) In final stages of financial statement and compliance audit. Auditors expect to issue draft audit report this week. 2) TPI is required to issue formal response to DRL Monitoring Report issued after site visit in Aug 2016. Need assistance with response to Programmatic portion. 3) Between now and year-end, I'll be making a push to update all finance and accounting-related policies & procedures, and will be creating new policy docs as needed. I may reach out to some folks on the vegas team for assistance during that process.
Isabela: 1) Roadmaps process is moving pretty good. Last week teams check in meeting were a good start. This week the UX team and Service have created their roadmaps. I will also send an update to tor-project for all community. ux roadmap -https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ELMvnIksL-m_r0vJt_rwpIkcjyzZpCyYiQJO... service roadmap -https://storm.torproject.org/shared/h82FhoIDG9ZB9-qMd5w0F0GYyvNf0k0zovLjs5xG... 2) Submitted sponsor8 Q3 (august and sept) report - still for this week there are some sponsor4 reports 3) Organizing some ideas for a 2018 grant strategy meeting in Seattle early december 4) organizing new hires coming up with SIDA contract and kickoff meeting with people who will be involved in this project 5) organizing a plan for building support.tpo (while thinking about the other portals - cuz we will share a lot from design decision to framework). 6) working with Geko on Sukhbir onboarding - 'defining working plan', exercise we are doing/following is here: https://storm.torproject.org/shared/hFzY4dVTL4HJFg0ki0fTy6zu8LT2ajp_YKfJ76xw...
Shari: 1) met with funder in San Francisco 2) in Valencia next week for OTF Summit 3) so much going on, but not really much to report!
Roger: 1) Shari, can you ask Marcin at the OTF summit about the "Roger goes to Sweden to do talk for SIDA" topic? Planning my travel ahead of time works best. 2) I'll be gone next week for two conferences (Monday to Thursday, then Friday to Saturday).