Hello!

Thanks everyone who made it to today's UX team monthly meeting, and we're looking forward to seeing you all again in March. 

Here are the minutes: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-02-09-13.58.log.html

During today’s meeting we introduced a new project for the UX team: S103 – Collaborative ResistancE to Web Surveillance (CREWS), planned the final details of the upcoming Tor Browser and Snowflake user surveys, onboarded two new user research contributors who we’re very excited to have running their own sessions in the near future, and lastly received an update from josernitos on their developing research project.

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Open IRC meetings happen monthly on the first Tuesday of the month at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. 
 
Next meeting will be held on Tuesday 2nd March at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. 

Here are the minutes for the meeting of February 9th:
Log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-02-09-13.58.log.html

Here are the minutes for the meeting of January 12th:
Log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-01-12-13.58.log.html

Here are the minutes for the meeting of November 10th:
Log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-11-10-13.58.log.html

Here are the minutes for the meeting of October 13th:
Log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-10-13-13.59.log.html
 
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Tuesday February 9th 14:00 UTC
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== What projects are we working on? ==
 
S9 - Usability and Community Intervention on Support for Democracy and Human Rights
• https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=Sponsor%209&label_name[]=UX

S30 - Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship
• https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=Sponsor%2030&label_name[]=UX

S84 - Onion Guides
• https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=Sponsor%2084
 
== Announcements ==

* Tor Browser 10.0.9 Release:
•  https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1009

* Tor Browser Alpha 10.5.a8 Release:
• https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-105a8

== Agenda ==

1. New Project: S103 – Collaborative ResistancE to Web Surveillance (CREWS)
• https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=Sponsor%20103

2. Final planning for the upcoming surveys:
    * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/11
    * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40007
    * Chat about TB lang versions
 
 3. Onboarding for new UR contributors:
     * Introductions
     
     Questions for UR contributors:
     * Is this your first contribution to the Tor Project?
     * Where will your research take place?
     * Who are your audience?
     
     Questions for the Tor 
     * What are Tor's research priorities?

== Open Call for User Research ==

Materials and next steps for the contributors who attended today's session:
    
- Subscribe to the UX mailing:
• https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

- Find out more about user research for Tor on our Community portal:
• https://community.torproject.org/user-research/

- Create an account on Gitlab, browse the UX Research repo, and get up to speed on Tor's personas:
• https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research
    
- Read the guidelines on how to do user research with Tor:
• https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/blob/master/README.md

- Familiarize yourself with the User Needs Discovery activity:
• https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/blob/master/scripts%20and%20activities/2019/1._User_Needs_Discovery_-_Tor_Browser_Desktop.pdf

- Begin to think about the details of your session (i.e. Where are your participants joining the session from? How many will be attending? What materials/support will you need? When will your session take place?)

- Lastly: when you're ready, head back to the #tor-ux channel or email the team to review your session plan :)

For anyone else who'd like to get involved: the UX team meets monthly on IRC in the #tor-meeting channel on the OFTC network. If you’re not familiar with IRC here are some instructions to get started: https://support.torproject.org/get-in-touch/#irc-help