Hello Tor,
We started
February in the rainy Berlin. We met Firefox's folks at their
bi-annual All Hands gathering and we discussed regular topics
around our collaboration. After that, many of us met at
FOSDEM. We specially enjoyed the talk diogosergio gave at the
Open Design Track. You may want to watch it!
S27 Onion
services
==================
We spent
February on implementing an approach to move forward with the
onion names' problem. We found that organically, developers
have been approaching this problem in different ways, mostly
with solutions tailored for the pleasure of their own service.
Given that there is not a complete solution that works
perfectly for all our user groups, we also approached this
problem with a broad angle. From headers to centralized lists
we are trying to allow end-users to have an experience close
to the defaults without losing security: type a memorable
domain at the URL bar and reach an onionsite, anonymously.
As we update
the URL bar to show the alias, the circuit display will allow
users to check the origin onion address for integrity.
Impressive work, acat!
You can read
more about this process here
OTF Usability
Lab: Tor Metrics
==============================
Last year we
applied with Simply Secure for an OTF Usability Labs grant for
working on the next iteration of the metrics portal. The
proposal went through, and Nina Vizz
will lead this project. Gaba and I as well Metrics Team folks,
we will be the stakeholders of this project.
User Research
=============
Nah and Pili attended the
Open Design meetup, the usability
testing workshop before FOSDEM. They
built together a "Download Page" research that S9 partners
will be running in March along with trainings.
We made
progress on setting a workflow in git for our upcoming user
research.
We worked
on the Onion Services Research, we
expect to run it virtually and in person.
Since we may
need to localize some of this materials, emmapeel suggested to
have it in .md format. We will be working on it during March.
WWW
===
We finally
iterated torproject.org/download. We included a label for each
operative system, we improved the discoverability of the
signature files and we also made it look better in small
screens.
S30
===
During
February, ICFP fellowship Babatunde has been traveling through
Nigeria and Cameroon interviewing users who have been
experiencing information controls. He is now digesting all this
material and we will work together on expanding Tor personas
in order to inform our work on s30.
L10n
====
We
have updated more websites with new content still, no new
languages added but soon we will.
Also, we helped
Snowflake and Tor Browser teams with the translations and
reviews of the next
features release.
We got some
more reviewers but still, more is needed. If you are
interested in being a reviewer of a language just ping
emmapeel on irc!
Fundraising
===========
Emmapeel and
alsmith helped draft the MOSS proposal for the Linguine
project, to prepare an open platform for translation.
We submited a
joint DRL proposal for continuing our work on user research
with communities with Guardian Project and Tails. Thanks Al
and Pili for working on this
narrative and estimations!
Open Team
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If you missed
those, February weekly meetings notes are here:
Peace and love,
A
--
Antonela Debiasi
UX Team Lead
@antonela
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https://torproject.org