Hi all,
Here are our meeting minutes:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-08-27-16.00.html
And here is our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad --------------------------------
Next meeting: Thursday August 27th 16:00 UTC
Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress).
== Goal of this meeting ==
Weekly checkin about the status of anti-censorship work at Tor. Coordinate collaboration between people/teams on anti-censorship at Tor.
== Links to Useful documents ==
* Our anti-censorship roadmap: * Roadmap: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/boards * The anti-censorship team's wiki page: * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/home * Past meeting notes can be found at: * https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/ * Tickets that need reviews: from sponsors we are working on: * All needs review tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/merge_requests?sc... * Sponsor 30 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/4 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/7 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/5 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/6 * Sponsor 28 * must-do tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10 * possible tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%... * Anti-censorship related tickets that we want other teams to fix: * https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-tickets-keep <-- it will be moved into gitlab with TPO labels * Public bug-reporting pad: * https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep
== Announcements ==
* Snowflake CDN cost was $0.01 in July, same as in June. Started a table of costs. * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Snowflake-cos...
== Discussion ==
* The deadline for the next stable version of Tor Browser is early September * Babatunde's research - Peer Reviews? * There's a report in the anonymous bug report pad, a failure to bootstrap Snowflake on Android https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep
== Actions ==
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== Interesting links ==
* https://www.torproject.org/privchat/ 2020-08-28 17:00 UTC "the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Censorship Circumvention"
== Reading group ==
* We will discuss "Turbo Tunnel" on Aug 20 Aug 27 * PDF: https://www.bamsoftware.com/papers/turbotunnel/turbotunnel.pdf * Web version: https://www.bamsoftware.com/papers/turbotunnel/ * Questions to ask and goals to have: * What aspects of the paper are questionable? * Are there immediate actions we can take based on this work? * Are there long-term actions we can take based on this work? * Is there future work that we want to call out, in hopes that others will pick it up?
== Updates ==
Name: This week: - What you worked on this week. Next week: - What you are planning to work on next week. Help with: - Something you need help with.
phw: This week (2020-08-27): * Experimented with a streaming interface between our new BridgeDB and its distributors. * Attended a meeting with TunnelBear. * Onionperf & exitmap work. * Wrapped up blog post on challenges, priorities, and progress in our work. Next week: * Help with: *
cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-08-27 Last week: - deployed snowflake#40008 - started snowflake measurements in china to track performance and censorship attempts (snowflake#32657) - continuous monitoring of NAT situation - prep for being away next month - meeting with tunnel bear This week: - Away Needs help with: - still need a review of fix for snowflake#21314 (snowflake!9)
juggy : This week: - Got very basic "suggested readings" list up and running here : https://jugheadjones10.github.io/anti-censorship-reading/ Next week: - Keep studying BridgeDB to write architectural overview Help with: - Open issues here (https://github.com/jugheadjones10/anti-censorship-reading ) for papers/resources/readings that you think might be useful for newcomers
arlolra: 2020-06-11 Last week: - Next week: - follow ups to #33365 - start on #31201 Help with: -
dcf: 2020-08-27 Last week: - started a discussion on where to move the metrics timeline https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2020-August/001155.html - did Azure CDN bookkeeping - tried again to figure out sharing access for #30510 - made a patch to add licenses of kcp-go and smux https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/40... - archived snowflake-webextension-0.4.1 Next week: - review snowflake client inactivity https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - populate the new metrics timeline repo https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/metrics/timeline Help with:
Antonela: 2020-08-27 This week: - Wrapping Babatunde's research on the use of circumvention tools during internet censorship in Africa. Wrapping Personas for s30 with it. For september: - We are planning interviews with users in China to run our bridges discovery issues script in real time. We discussed to include TBA + snowflake as a task for users to run over a week or two and report back. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/4 - I still have bridges.tpo to lektor issue open - More work on UX/UI for TB 10.0/10.5 - Review Salmon related tickets (im late with it!)
agix:2020-08-27 Last week: -Nothing to add for last week Next week: - Help with: -
hanneloresx: 2020-08-27 Last week: Reviewed and translated blog post on challenges, priorities, and progress in Tor anti-censorship Next week: - Start on #33727 - Continue investigating and respond to comments on #32117 Help with: -
thymbahutymba: 2020-04-02 Last week: - CI/CD pipeline for multiarch docker images, which has a problem with the apt tor version even though the apt repository have been changed into the Dockerfile. Next week: Help with:
HashikD: 2020-08-27 This week: - GSoC blog Next week: - Away on exams Help with: -