Hello,

Thanks everyone who made it to today's UX team monthly meeting! We're looking forward to seeing you all again in June.

Here are the minutes: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-05-11-14.00.log.... http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-05-11-14.00.log.html

Today we briefly discussed the scheduled deprecation of V2 Onion Services in Tor Browser & the updates that will be deployed in the next alpha to inform users of this change, shared a quick update on our progress on both the Snowflake and Tor Browser user surveys, discussed how we’re going to solicit and collect feedback for the TB 10.5 Alpha (featuring the updated bootstrapping experience), announced our weekly user research coordination meetings which are happening in #tor-ux at 13:00utc on Thursdays, and lastly, received an update on Nah & Josernitos’ respective fellowships and exciting work – which are both coming to a conclusion soon.

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Open IRC meetings happen monthly on the first Tuesday of the month at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC.

The next meeting will be held on Tuesday 1st June at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC.

Here are the minutes for the meeting of April 6th: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-05-11-14.00.log.... http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-05-11-14.00.log.html

Here are the minutes for the meeting of April 6th: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-04-06-13.58.log.... http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-04-06-13.58.log.html

Here are the minutes for the meeting of March 2nd: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-03-02-13.58.log.... http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-03-02-13.58.log.html

Here are the minutes for the meeting of February 9th: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-02-09-13.58.log.... http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-02-09-13.58.log.html

-------------------------- Tuesday May 11th 14:00 UTC --------------------------

== What projects are we working on? ==

S9 - Usability and Community Intervention on Support for Democracy and Human Rights

https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%... https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=Sponsor%209&label_name%5B%5D=UX S28 – Survey reporting for "Get more alpha users of Snowflake"

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40007 S30 - Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship

https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%... https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=Sponsor%2030&label_name%5B%5D=UX S103 – Collaborative ResistancE to Web Surveillance (CREWS)

https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%... https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=Sponsor%20103 == Announcements ==

* Tor Browser 10.0.16 Release: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-10016 https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-10016

* Tor Browser Alpha 10.5.a15 for Release: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-105a15 https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-105a15

* V2 Onion Services deprecation: https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1388905624847757315 https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1388905624847757315

== Agenda ==

1. User survey reporting status report

2. TB 10.5 Alpha release on May 18th, call for testing: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/41 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/41

3. Tor User Research sync - weekly meetings

Next Meeting: Thursday May 12th @ 13UTC in #tor-ux https://pad.riseup.net/p/soLeeOOJ3sODLsrT0Uhq-ux-research-keep https://pad.riseup.net/p/soLeeOOJ3sODLsrT0Uhq-ux-research-keep

4. Nah/Thurayya fellowship updates + Josernitos grants updates

For anyone else who'd like to get involved: the UX team meets monthly on IRC in the #tor-meeting channel on the OFTC network. If you’re not familiar with IRC here are some instructions to get started: https://support.torproject.org/get-in-touch/#irc-help https://support.torproject.org/get-in-touch/#irc-help

Thanks everyone!

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Duncan Larsen-Russell UX Designer

duncan@torproject.org mailto:duncan@torproject.org