Notes for May 4 2017 meeting:
Nick: 1) Digicert renewals (plural) 1.1) blog.torproject.org (expires june 14.) 1.2) fa-blog.torproject.org (seems not to be used? redirects to blog.tpo) 1.3) petsymposium (not needed any more; we switched to let'sencrypt?) 1.3.1) Plan: see if we can move it all to letsencrypt; if not, tell nick and he'll renew. 1.3.2) Update: during the meeting, arma asked weasel and weasel said he'd migrate the blog cert to letsencrypt. nickm's current plan is to renew nothing. 2) Personnel: adding an engineer 3) Possibility of sprint to work on guard discovery resistance?
Roger: Things to discuss: 1) Torcoin. Trademarks in general. 2) Status of blog conversion? 3) GSoC decisions come out todayish. Things I did in the last week: 4) I published our 2015 financials, and helped Linus publish some corp docs 5) I finished my two PETS reviews 6) I did several more talks and panels (Miami, Denver, Philly), to help the public understand "the dark web" Todo: 7) Writing Defcon submission (due today) 8) I should write up SponsorR milestones for Brad 9) Brad and I should make a plan re NSF foreigner funding question 10) Fastly blog post 11) Organize PETS stipends 12) Answer guard discovery meet-up thread 13) Answer VG and Comcast conference invite 14) Look at Linda's website mail 15) execdir@ forwards to Colin
Alison 1) More content creation for support portal 2) More grantwriting 3) Lots of trainings last week/this week/this month 4) Other stuff the community team is working on: Global South meeting ideas, Global South outreach/training and the coordination thereof, relay operator support, membership guidelines.
Shari 1) Lots of productive meetings in New York last week. Good meeting with Mitchell Baker of Mozilla this week. Doing followup this week. 2) Hired a writer (Tommy Collison) who starts 5/20. Circulating job description for communications director. Figuring out tasks for new writer. 3) Researching strategic planning for open source projects. Reached out to Sue Gardner about Wikimedia. Also looking at processes used by Mozilla and Red Hat. 4) Settled on dates for Montreal meeting. We should start thinking about team meeting day. 5) Lots of edits on lots of grants. 6) Talking with lots of folks about Tor's place in Internet of Things.
Karsten: 1) Finally submitted funding proposal that was due April 30. 2) Made OnionPerf's onion service measurements available on Tor Metrics as beta. 3) Started preparing for metrics-lib 1.7.0 and 2.0.0 releases this month and possibly the next, with a planned blog post in June. 4) Started using Harvest for time tracking. 5) Got a new CollecTor mirror up and running.
Georg: 1) Mainly worked on fixing Tor Browser 7.0 related bugs 2) Cross-team coordination for the bridge automation work
Mike: 1) Refreshed the Guard discovery (Prop247) branch and reviewed currently open questions for a meeting. 2) Followed up with Mozilla's IoT person. Didn't hear back (spam filtering of @torproject.org?) 3) Helping with Bridge testing design 4) Meeting with Isa next week. Hopefully we will both also have a chance to talk to an an ethnographic researcher doing work on anonymity.
Isabela: 1) Submitted Metrics proposal 2) Working on proposal review questions - if all goes well we think this work will start in July. 2.1) Will send email with deliverables list to all stakeholders to start preparing teams for this work 3) Had meeting on Tor Launcher automation work (trying to see what are the dependencies on different teams (under different sponsors deliverables) - sending out a summary this week as well as some next steps 4) Lots of new hiring coming up with proposals being approved - I am starting to prepare the work for drafting those job posts, defining the positions and will reach out to stakeholders to coordinate writing. 5) Hiro - had progress on blog migration work - we will need to freeze it for some time and will coordinate that with the community. 6) Linda is working on wireframes for the new portals / she is doing this work with a volunteer for now. She will be at Stockholm internet freedom event from SIDA 7) Plan on sending roadmaps to tor-project list / and send user growth strategy update
Arturo: 1) Made a great deal of progress in implementing the client side component of orchestration 2) We now have 100% ooniprobe translations in Greek, Farsi, Arabic and Russian that are going to be part of next weeks release