October 2018 Community Team highlights
Meeting notes ================================================================== https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/CommunityTeam#Curren...
Tor Meeting ================================================================= We held the Mexico City meeting and it was amazing! You can read the notes from that meeting here [1].
Several Tor people including Gus and Antonela gave talks "Coloquio Academico Mecanismos de Privacidad y Anonimato en Redes" at UNAM after the Tor Meeting.
Later in October, Alison sent out a survey for the next Tor Meeting location and dates to all core contributors (and the winner is Athens, May 2019)
Community portal, support portal, and user advocacy ================================================================== We mapped out our needs for community.torproject.org and began working on outreach material for that portal along with the UX team.
Maggie took on more user advocate responsibilities and continued the monthly user issues update email.
Anti-censorship ================================================================== In October, Kat began work writing and aggregating reports about Tor's anti-censorship efforts.
Localization ================================================================== emmapeel localized donate.torproject.org, got Chinese added to support.torproject.org, and added screenshots in Transifex.
Library Freedom Institute ================================================================== Alison began migrating LFI content to a wiki. The LFI cohort completed weeks 19-22 of their training. Library Freedom also started a website redesign, which we will debut soon!
Tor talks and outreach ================================================================== Maggie and Cybelle held a "Demystifying Tor" workshop at MozFest
Alison submitted the CFP for the UX and community teams to talk at IFF. She also worked on planning for the two teams to attend that conference together.
Roger submitted a talk to FOSDEM, Steph requested a stand, and ahf made a wiki for Tor people attending [2].
Gus is working on creating volunteer projects for students at the University of Sao Paulo (USP).
Gus gave a Tor talk to students of LabJor [3] and gave a security workshop in Sao Paolo.
Gus also organized travel to Guatemala to give a Tor talk and organized a security workshop at BIENAL in Sao Paolo.
Relay advocacy ================================================================== Colin is working with a VPN company on deploying some exit relays.
He also updated the obfsproxy bridge deployment instructions and identified primary documentation [4] and sent a moderation email to tor-relays [5].
He worked on deploying VMs for fallback directory list rebuilding and updated the fallback list in preparation for rebuild.
Finally, Colin contacted operators running EOL versions of Tor and encouraged them to upgrade.
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[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2018MexicoCity/No... [2] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2019Brussels [3] http://www.labjor.unicamp.br/ [4] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/PluggableTransports/obfs4p... [5] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2018-October/016524.html