Notes from Vegas Meeting JANUARY 23 2019:
+ NEW BUSINESS
[anarcat] - Debian 9 stretch EOL this summer, want to check in with service admins and teams how to schedule buster upgrades Discussion: will coordinate/discuss with Gaba next week and make a plan to move forward.
[Sarah] - San Francisco party prep - do we know anyone at Reddit to invite? Discussion: maybe it’s time to make a wider call. If you’re reading this and you know someone, please contact sstevenson@torproject. Thanks!
+ GENERAL NOTES
Georg * Network health planning; kick-off meeting will be after the Vegas meeting (see: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/network-health/2020-January/000452.ht...)
Antonela * S27, S9 regular duties * Submitted RightsCon proposal on Human Rights and Design track with Simply Secure, Jigsaw and A19 * Reading about cohosh bridge's proposal * Pushing the iterated download page from [dev] to [staging] * Traveling to Berlin this weekend; set meetings with Simply Secure and OTF for Metrics with Nina, OTF for S27 with Fiona, OTF for Metrics with Elio. FF <> Tor UX meetings are: Tracking Protection UX, Fenix High-level Road Map, Anti-tracking Engineering Planning * I will reach FOSDEM in the weekend * Meeting the OTF comms lab about onions with Steph and others * Meeting Soraya from EFF to sync about collabs
Gaba * Roadmapping with anti-censorship, metrics, network, network health and syadmin temas... \o/ * Roadmapping new IPv6 project * Preparing S30 report for Bekeela to send * Traveling on Tuesday to attend Sustain Summit next week - https://sustainoss.org/summit-2020/ * FOSDEM in the weekend & meetings: Simply Secure for Metrics portal project (with Antonela), sbws with Juga and Alex
Sarah * Sent 2019 tax receipts to monthly donors. * San Francisco party prep - do we know anyone at Reddit to invite? (See above.) * Planning NYC lunch in April. * Back to rolling invites to monthly and major giving programs.
Erin * Moving office next Tuesday; selling stuff and packing up this week/weekend * HR/Personnel stuff * New shadow dev starting Monday 1/27 * Trying to get caught up
Alex: * Team seems to be doing good. People seems to be hacking on roadmap stuff and/or 0.4.3 stuff. * Going through Gitlab todo list. * Next week I'll be at FOSDEM in Brussels. Might miss next Vegas meeting due to traveling. * Did first round of 1:1's with network team folks this week.
Nick. * Status w walking onions proposal. * Released 0.4.3.1-alpha: woo! * More stable releases likely next week.
Mike: * Circulated research director roles pad; worked on 2020 goals * Worked on tor-dev congestion control epic mail (still fixing details) * Prepping for Mozilla all hands next week.
Anarcat: * started setup of new ganeti node (#32937) which will give us some breathing room to shutdown old servers * experimented fairly successfully with setup-storage to standardize disk formatting in our install automation work (#31239) * decom'd a ARM build box that was having trouble at scaleway (#33001), future of other scaleway boxes uncertain, delegated to weasel * looked at the test Discourse instance hiro setup * new RT queue ("training") for the community folks (#32981) * upgraded meronense to buster (#32998) surprisingly tricky * Debian 9 stretch EOL this summer, want to check in with service admins and teams how to schedule buster upgrades * established first draft of sysadmin roadmap with hiro https://help.torproject.org/tsa/roadmap/2020/ * various small tweaks (proper headings in wiki #32985, ticket review, followup with jim's key, irl acceses in #32999, logging issues on archive-01 #32827, cleanup old role #32787, cleanup old rc.local cruft #33015, puppet code review #33027)
Philipp * Slowly wrapping up TTP grant * Worked on roadmap for the next three months
isabela * Coordinating w/ anto, steph, asn, roger the onion services/nodarkweb strategy, I will plan a meeting and add Hiro to this game. We are in touch with OTF labs on this as well. * Had my first meeting with the Board in 2020 and we discussed a mid FY analysis that I presented. * Continue 1:1 w/ vegas leads for 2020 prep * first meeting on creating guildelines for relationships regarding funds * Continue to organize EFF event, event at Ford and Membership Program.
Gus * Following up with Cleopatra and reviewing her work * Submitted RightsCon proposal - Tor Meetup in Global South + invited to talk about the future of activist communication organized by Harvard's Shorenstein Center. * Attended to IFF Village meeting last friday, I'm working on a private pad to put together our proposals. * Travelling next week to Fosdem, offline on Jan 31th. * Doing 2:1 with Pili and volunteers in Community Team. * Organizing S9 work (creating training workflow)
Pili * FOSDEM prep * GSoC wrangling * Some website updates * S27 deliverable review * Regular trac triage and other maintenance tasks
Matt: * Sketching some team organizational improvements * Preparing for Moz All Hands next week * Trying to keep up with all the announcements happening in the Browser Privacy space
Steph: * Working with OTF Learning Lab for onion services. Mapped out initial work plan * Working with annalee_ on blog tag organization and planning next projects * Writing a piece on our press coverage last year * Submitted a session on privacy laws and privacy tools to RightsCon
Karsten: * Upgraded metrics website host to buster, with help from anarcat. * Resolved a bunch of defects in Metrics/* components.