Notes for May 16 2019 meeting:
Roger: 0) Nick: btw, GeKo and I decided to leave me on the tor-security list, but pretend that I'm not on it. I asked if we should add a real third person, and he said he's got it under control. 1) Arturo: it looks like the ooni package on deb.tpo is no longer in debian? That means we're no longer following our intended policy of having deb.tpo things be only imported from debian. Is there a plan to fix? Plan: we limp along with ooniprobe in deb.tpo for now, because there aren't any better options for users, and then when ooniprobe 3.0 is released -- by Nov 2019 is the current schedule -- we remove ooniprobe from deb.tpo, point users to the new one and inform existing users how to upgrade. 2) I added Gaba and Pili to the speaking@ alias, so they can help us coordinate our speaker invites. 3) We're nearly done assigning the first round of PETS stipends. We'll have allocated most, but not quite all, of the stipend money. 4) Cecylia, Philipp, the NRL folks, I, and others will be at the Race kickoff meeting next Thursday / Friday in DC. I look forward to figuring out what the program actually is, and from there, how we can best encourage the other people in it to build practical useful things to help real people. 5) Sue: speaking of which, we should shortly be getting a copy of the agreement between Georgetown and us. 6) We're half-way until the submission deadline for the Mozilla research grants. Is there something more proactive we should do, besides the blog post from some weeks back?
Mike: 1) Sponsor2 (NSF-TTP) is just about at a point where we can "declare victory" in future NSF-TTP proposals (we have functionality merged into an upcoming alpha). Matt Wright said this was a good time to start new NSF-TTP funding proposals 2) Roger: What do you think about doing another/larger NSF-TTP for traffic analysis, or for transitioning performance research into practice? [You should mail Matt and ask him what he wants to do, and whether he already has plans for his NSF TTP proposal token for this round. My plans for my TTP proposal token for this round are unclear, so if we really need me, I can do it, or if you want to lead it, that's great too. -RD]
Pili: 1) Still helping to moderate tor-talk and tor-relays 2) Stepping up work on new Community Portal 3) Responding to GSoD enquiries 4) Playing with new git lab instance and plotting out processes and workflows for teams
Antonela: 1) TB 8.5 release #29955, #30497 2) triaged OONI Explorer UX tasks for stable, trying to prioritize 3) reviewing Q1/Q2 user research reporting, coordinating next Africa trips with ggus 4) sent peer-reviews 5) working with onions #30024
Arturo: 1) Our post on wikipedia blocking in China: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/2019-china-wikipedia-blocking/, got pretty big media coverage 2) Made a new release of ooniprobe 3.0.0-beta.3: https://github.com/ooni/probe-cli/releases/tag/v3.0.0-beta.3. Testing is greatly appreciated! 3) Working on OONI Explorer 4) Supporting individuals who submitted OTF fellowship proposals
Steph: 1) nyc fundraiser on Tuesday went well 2) preparing for vacation coverage may 23-june 11, scheduling lots of social media 3) community portal copy review 4) promoting swag discounts 5) feedback, travel arrangements 6) media inquiry
Karsten: 1) CollecTor is now archiving bandwidth files from directory authorities. 2) Work on new OnionPerf graphs is moving forward, though this will still take a bit more time.
Sarah: 1) Discount sticker promotion email has made almost $1,000. We will send this message out periodically several weeks after people join the email list. The average gift is $27, meaning most people are giving much more than the $17 promotion. 2) feedback 3) travel arrangements 4) Craig Newmark Philanthropies granted $50k for general operating.
Sue: 1) General accounting stuff
Erin: 1) peer and team lead feedback due May 17th 2) general HR stuff
Gaba: 1) Coordinating retrospective for network team 2) Following on moz-tor meeting and moz research grants 3) Feedback 4) Trying to get an automatic way to visualize trac tickets per sponsor/team