Hello Tor, We launched two major campaigns in the past 2 months: the Tor Bug Smash and the Run Tor Bridges campaigns. Thanks to everyone who has helped out. The bridge campaign is running through September -- you can share your support of bridges and encourage others to set them up with #RunTorBridges[1]. In July, we prepared materials for two big events in August: DEF CON and CCCamp. Our first booth at DEF CON was a success, and we'd like to thank seeess for creating an onion badge for us[2]. Roger had a talk in the main track on anti-censorship, and I took part in a privacy related panel in the Blockchain Village. Momentum with the cryptocurrency community is still building, and a podcast with multiple Tor people for a popular magazine is in the works. In August, I joined the Tor "money machine" at a training in DC, and we are working on new materials to use for fundraising based around what we learned. We've also begun prep for our EOY fundraising campaign starting soon. July and August in links and stats: == JULY == Blog posts https://blog.torproject.org/reflections-our-stockholm-all-hands Twitter New followers: 3,455 Top tweets https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1146128242979614720 https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1146442235032014848 https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1154100944394694656 LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/company/tor-project/ New followers: 114 Facebook https://facebook.com/torproject New followers: 547 Instagram https://instagram.com/torproject New followers: 361 Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@torproject New followers: 260 Newsletter https://newsletter.torproject.org/archive/2019-07-29-defending-the-open-inte... Notable press https://www.wired.co.uk/article/best-privacy-browsers-and-chrome-alternative... == AUGUST == Blog posts https://blog.torproject.org/run-tor-bridges-defend-open-internet https://blog.torproject.org/join-tors-docshackathon-next-week https://blog.torproject.org/tors-bug-smash-fund-help-tor-smash-all-bugs Twitter New followers: 3,159 Top tweets https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1166048980930879491 https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1156910864391262208 https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1161636416914362369 LinkedIn New followers: 146 Facebook New followers: 603 Instagram New followers: 739 Mastodon New followers: 670 Newsletter https://newsletter.torproject.org/archive/2019-08-30-docsHackathon-run-a-tor... Notable press https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2019/08/the-best-privacy-and-security-focused-... [1] https://twitter.com/hashtag/RunTorBridges?src=hashtag_click [2] https://twitter.com/see_ess/status/1155223668336861189 o/ -Steph -- Stephanie A. Whited Communications Director The Tor Project IRC: stephw PGP Fingerprint: E976 9771 7D46 2E63 9697  9F6D 6D6B 72C3 39A8 76AD <https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6D6B72C339A876AD>