Tuesday July 5th @ 16:00 UTC
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== What projects are we working on? ==
S9 – Usability and Community Intervention on Support for Democracy and Human Rights
S30 – Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship
S96 – Rapid Expansion of Access to the Uncensored Internet through Tor in China, Hong Kong, & Tibet
S101 – Tor VPN Client for Android
S123 – Tor Secure Access Package for USAGM
S131 – Refactoring Tor Browser for Desktop
== Announcements ==
New Release: Tor Browser 11.0.15 (Android, Windows, macOS, Linux)
New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 11.5a13 (Android, Windows, macOS, Linux)
== Agenda ==
Evergreen items:
1. Announcements 📣
2. Weekly planning 📅
3. Check-in with user support 💬
Discussion items for this week only:
- Nah has a number active surveys being used to collect training feedback from East Africa
- Nah will check-in with Gus re: timings, as the Sysadmin team are
planning to shut down the old Limesurvey instance on August 1st
Preserve the structure only:
Migrate data AND structure:
List of surveys that are currently active:
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6. Connect Assist test with a user in a restricted region:
- First time using Tor Browser
- Participant was able to download Tor Browser without a VPN using a mirror
- It took Tor Browser exactly 1:30 min to identify that Tor was blocked
- Then, it took 3:30 to find a bridge and connect
- They were confused at why it was taking so long, and went to
preferences, but didn't understand how to make additional changes
- Ideas for additional improvements include:
* Region-based messages to set expectations re: bootstrapping time (for
those who have consented to location-shared), like "It can take up to
20 minutes to connect to Tor from China"
* Intelligent/contextual help text within connection settings, e.g.
"Works best in China" next to the option for Snowflake
== Weekly planning ==
Note: Please highlight anything you'd like to discuss below in **bold**
duncan/donuts
Last week (actual):
- Made progress with VPN wireframes in ux/design#35
This week (planned):
- Check bridge-moji shortlist for compatibility issues in tor-browser#40860
- Select a creative direction for Tor Browser 11.5 release in operations/communications#74
- Write Tor Browser 11.5 release post
- Finalize survey structures and data to be migrated in tpa/team#40808
- Start preparing quarterly reports for sponsors
Backlog:
- Review tb-manual updates in web/manual#119
- Continue working on VPN wireframes in ux/design#35
Nah
Last week (actual):
- did more interviews for S101, S96
- collected feedback about materials - S9
- transcribed some of the interviews
This week (planned):
- finish roadmapping user research activities for Q3
- check on trainers feedback
- 1:1 call about user feedback collection
- transcribing the remaining interviews (s96, s101)
- collecting user feedback about localized materials (got some nice ones so far)
Nicob
Last week (actual):
- Hack week project: illustrations, color palette, typography, graphics for social media bank
- 11.5 teasers: art direction options, finalized motion for bridge-mojis, https-only screen
- 3rd round of tor network icons workshopping, ready for review
This week (planned):
- S30: Hopefully finish QA work on BridgeDB pages with Kez
- S123: favicon for USAGM, update tracker with color codes
- Telegram bot graphics
- Finalize social teasers/graphics for Tor Browser 11.5 release
Joydeep
Check-in with user support:
- finished all updates to TB manual wrt 11.5 (alpha)
== Open Call for User Research ==
Find out how to contribute to the UX team: