Friendly reminder: US Federal holiday (observed) on Monday, January 20th
Notes from Vegas Meeting JANUARY 16 2019:
+ OLD BUSINESS
Mike: - Pantheon tells me they just implemented a new "coupon" system for select long-term non-profit customers, allowing them to peg billing and avoid overage charges. They did not have the ability to alter pricing like this previously.
+ NEW BUSINESS
pili - Is anyone coordinating our Rightscon submissions and presence? Should I? Should someone in the American continent and/or who is planning to attend do it instead? Resolution: Steph, isa, EFF, FPF, Gus, and Antonela are all working on stuff. :)
ewyatt - Setting next feedback cycle timeline - please see my email from yesterday and let's talk timing. Resolution: timeline works; Isa and ewyatt are still reviewing feedback from last cycle; updated document and announcement to come out next week.
sarah - Do we know anyone at Google that we can contact about attending the San Fran event? Discussion: (A few people; short list shared internally.) If anyone reading this knows someone, please contact sstevenson@torproject!
anarcat - How should i approach the discussion of "what is supported" and "what is an emergency"? who are my stakeholders? see also ticket #31243
+ GENERAL NOTES
Anarcat - sysadmin meeting on monday, notes at https://help.torproject.org/tsa/meeting/2020-01-13/ - ordered new server for ganeti cluster - battling various upkeep things (scaleway/ARM boxes, disk usage, security upgrades, etc) - 1:1 with isa (thanks!) - how should i approach the discussion of "what is supported" and "what is an emergency"? who are my stakeholders? see also ticket #31243
Philipp (on vacation and won't be here) - Still working on TTP grant - Business as usual with Sponsor 28 and 30
Georg - getting up to speed in network-health land - moved various unrelated pieces forward (faq legal update)
Pili - Teams and Sponsor roadmapping - Moving GSoC forward - FOSDEM organisation - Lots of meetings this week
Antonela • UX team 2020 roadmap is ready - https://nc.torproject.net/s/CqiqS7NRrfPkmLx • Berlin All Hands logistics; maybe I'm reaching FOSDEM. • S27, S30 and S9, IFF Village organizers, Mozilla <> Tor meetings • working with Onion Errors and Onion Indicators as part of S27 • reviewed Nah's report on December user research ran by partners. Working with Onion Services user research. • torproject.org/download is going to be iterated - #32460 • emailed Julia Evans (b0rk) to work in a fanzine that explains Tor. She doesn't run commissioned work but recommended us emilywithcurls :) • fill SOTO for the UX team • I'll be joining proposals with A19 and EFF around human rights and design during RightsCon • EFF is working on updating ssd.eff.org with Tor Browser updates. Put them in contact with Gus and helping on what is needed.
Alex: - Scheduled 1:1 with network team folks. Monday is going to be the big meeting day for me in this year. - Hacking on various tickets in my backlog. - Going to do slides in the upcoming weekend for FOSDEM. - Looking at CFP's for other events "near" DK for submitting Tor talks to. Mostly Free Software/Security conferences.
isabela: - Continue to have 1:1s w/ Vegas leads to coordinate 2020 plans - Working on Board Book for our next meeting (Jan 21st) - Reviewing comms/fundraising posts/letters - Kick off meeting for onion-advisors / working on udpating Membership Program proposal - Introduction meetings w/ Omidyar and Hewlett foundations - Planning next Feedback cycle w/ Erin
Steph: - Working with our Outreachy intern annalee_ on our blog tags and press list - Submitting panel to RightsCon with Isa, EFF, FPF - Reviewing and posting blogs - Creating a document on our onion relationships for onion-advisors - Had first conversation with OTF about Learning Lab for onion services
Nick: - Feature-freeze for 0.4.3.x has begun. - Possibly, more releases soon, depending on pace of fixes for 0.4.2 and 0.4.3 issues. - Have been working here and there on design sketches for reduced-size Tor stuff. - Would like to have a sketch of current 2020 roadmaps, with unknowns marked. Will ask ahf/gaba.
Erin: - Onboarding new shadow dev. Announcement soon! - Setting next feedback cycle timeline - please see my email from yesterday and let's talk timing. - General HR/personnel stuff.
Sarah: - Final items for EOY campaign. Wrap up blog posted https://blog.torproject.org/2019-campaign-wrapup-tor-take-back-the-internet - Meetings with Hewlett and Omidyar. - Planning San Francisco (March 26th) and NYC events (April). Do we know anyone at Google that we can contact about attending the San Fran event?
Gaba - Catching up on mails and trac after two weeks AFK. - S30 report - Several roadmaps meetings with teams - Grants budget - Kicking off network health team work with Georg - Gitlab: checking on how to move forward.
Gus - Doing 1:2 with community team folks. - Last week did an online meeting with our training partner in Colombia. - Reviewing frontdesk answers with Outreachy intern Cleopatra. - Reviewing Tor Browser for Android manual with cleo, emmapeel, matt. - Organizing 2020 roadmap - Events outreach: following up with FOSDEM plans and activities. - Reaching out some relay operators orgs to see who's going to FOSDEM.
Matt - Attended Real World Crypto last week (talked with some people about Tor integration) - Three Tor Browser releases last week (two stable, and one alpha) - Still working on wrapping my head around all of the Tor Browser tickets - Planning S27, S30, S9, and migration work - Planning general tor application support
Karsten - Put out new metrics-lib, CollecTor, and ExoneraTor releases to fix a couple bugs. - Started a roadmap for Q1/2020.
Mike: - Shared research director roles doc with gaba and isa, working on 2020 goals - Worked with cohosh to clarify some vanguards doc statements wrt snowflake - Brainstorming discussion topics for Mozilla all hands