Notes for March 28 2019 meeting:
Roger: 1) PETS will have stipends available again this year. So if you are wanting to stay in Stockholm for PETS, consider putting together a stipend proposal. I will plan to get more details up on the website soon. 2) My debate with New York law enforcement last week, and my keynote at the identity conference this week, both went really well. I now have a pile of business cards I should follow up with. 3) Fyi, there's a board meeting tomorrow. 4) The overdue NSF reports are now in and approved. That saga is over. Let's do better for the next ones. :) 5) I delegated a request-for-Tor-talk-in-Europe to speaking@tpo. Are the right people on that list still? [answer: maybe we should merge it with comms, or maybe we should expand the list to include more variety of people. Neither list has anybody from Europe on it, for example.] 6) I've been running into a bunch of "threat intelligence" companies at recent conferences, and of course they're still hyping the dark web. We need to figure out a way to get the incentives aligned with these companies and their marketing teams. I might start by saying yes to a talk invite for a NYC-based company, and try to bring Isa along to take the momentum from my talk and try to build it into something. 7) We probably ought to sort out how we want to proceed with the NYU interactions. 8) I'm meeting with Philipp in person on Tuesday to talk through some of the anticensorship team roadmap vision things. 9) Did we make a decision on whom to recommend for the next Mozilla All-Hands? Is there a deadline for that? 10) Do we have any feedback on the feedback process? Feedback on tea time?
Georg: 1) We got Pwn2Own-related releases out last week 2) Progress on finalizing Tor Browser 8.5 3) We have a new website, great! Do we plan to have a post-mortem? It might be beneficial for setting up the remaining portals and for future transitions 4) Gaba: https://blog.torproject.org/making-diversity-default-open-source-world has a ton of unhandled comments. I guess we'd need to figure out next time who is dealing with comments beforehand if the author is not available?
Antonela: 1) We launched tpo.org yesterday 2) Made S27 OTF kickoff. 3) Tor Browser 8.5 release 4) Making IFF next week.
Nick: 1) Libreplanet went fairly well. Lots of people interested in hacking on Tor. Bunches of people who hadn't heard of Tor. A user interested in v3 onion service usability. 2) Talking at Tufts next weekend: discussion about a policy student paper on taxonomy of "accountable anonymity" proposals. 3) Are we supposed to be doing anything to drive peer review? I just got my first peer review request. (Do you mean, as a team lead, if you're supposed to be reminding people? If yes, no. You don't need to drive it -- people have their info and should be ok. -ewyatt)
isabela: 1) Spoke at 2 panels at Libreplanet and worked at booth last weekend. 2) Prepared for Board meeting tomorrow (friday 29th) 3) We got the Onion services contract w/ OTF! 4) Reviewing all reports that are due this week. 5) Finalized the invite list and almost done with sending invites 6) Worked on new website blog post.
Sarah: 1) Still getting a nice stream of cryptocurrency donations and talking with two donors who are considering gifts >$5k. 2) Attended Data Privacy Summit in DC yesterday. 3) Sending a letter to small foundations who have given in the past, but not recently and will include some individuals for whom we have postal mailing addresses. 4) Set up welcome email for people who join our email list. First one went out to 10k people who joined in March.
Alison: 1) LibrePlanet was good (I spoke at one Tor session and one Library Freedom session, also helped at the booth) 2) gave a talk on onion services to Temple University law students yesterday 3) otherwise, I'm entirely focused on Library Freedom Institute right now 4) community team is focused on the community portal right now 5) taking care of some preparations for RightsCon 6) preparing to work on some new funding ideas with Al and Sarah 7) question about feedback process: team leads are supposed to get feedback from their whole teams, but also one person "from the team" should be in group of three peer reviewers. Does this mean team leads should be reviewed by their whole team +2 or their whole team +3?
Erin: 1) Paperwork, lots of paperwork. And emails. 2) Recruiting/screening for open positions 3) General HR stuff
Mike: 1) working on Tor scalability strategy 2) Vanguards issues 3) Figuring out travel
Karsten: 1) Published our last remaining technical report for Sponsor 13 which concludes this project. 2) Trying to upgrade TorDNSEL enough to run on Debian stable. Do we know any friendly Haskell developers who would be able to spend a few hours on doing smaller updates (e.g., apparently Data.HashTable has been removed in Haskell 7.8 and we need to switch to the hashtables package; things like this)? 3) Preparing for upgrading op-ab to a more recent OnionPerf version that supports v3 onion services.
Arturo: 1) Working on the OONI Explorer revamp 2) Pipeline related work to support OONI Explorer 3) Preparing for IFF next week 4) Integrating a psiphon test into OONI Probe
Steph: 1) talking about the new website! sent to press 2) working on the community portal 3) newsletter done and will be out in the next couple days 4) responding to inquiries 5) cryptocurrency page updates and related inquiries 6) spoke at libreplanet last weekend, helped with the booth 7) worked on a new welcome email for newsletter subscribers. added signups from recent conferences
Sue: 1) Finalizing the Short Period 990 2) Finalizing the Sida Attestation Audit 3) General Accounting processes 4) Worked at the Libreplanet booth for a little bit on Saturday
Pili: 1) At Infracon in Barcelona this week meeting lots of fantastic people 2) We got the website out! :) 3) Sponsor 27 Kick Off meeting 4) Sponsor 8 Final report final touches 5) Following up on Google Season of Docs 6) IFF next week