Notes from April 7 2016 Vegas team meeting
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 See this posting for context: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-April/000223.html Notes from Apr 14 2016 meeting: Nick: 1) With Isabela I've been doing new team process stuff, see https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/ReleaseG... . We have buy-in from a lot of the team at this point. 2) I made a cert for mikeperry and GeKo to sign TB stuff on OSX. Georg seems to think it works. 3) Sometime this month or so (so, this week) I should renew our wildcard cert. Our existing cert expires May 3. Roger: 1a) https://www.petsymposium.org/2016/stipends.php is up and ready 1b) Mind if we accept $20k of PETS stipend money from Ford, and plan to send out stipends from it? #action: need an opinion from Shari, but I hope yes 2) What's our Plan for internal community vetting of new hires? What's our plan for internal community vetting of Shari's new hires? I heard Shari was going to run them past Isa and kate. That's a good start. Is that enough? Should we want more? Two things from last week that still want attention: 3) tor blog contract details 4) monthly reports? Karsten: 1) Continuing to work with iwakeh on CollecTor and metrics-lib, with most discussions taking place on Trac tickets and wiki pages. 2) Just had a useful session, also with iwakeh, to identify an FAQ for new metrics team members (where do I start? what are processes for everything?). We hope to answer many of those Q's using a small number of guides (contributor's guide, release guide, operator's guide). We have been looking at existing guides, like Google's Java Style Guide, that we'd like to adapt. Everything will go on the wiki. Georg: 1) We make progress on the esr45 transition although we are a bit behind my schedule. Nevertheless the next alpha will be esr45 based 2) We got the OS X signing going it seems and will test with a wider audience in the upcoming alpha Mike: 1. Pinged Kevin about the blog contract to try to get it locked in. No reply :/ 2. Helped Isa a bit with the tor-core 029 ticket triage. Suggested some patterns that worked for Tor Browser (primarily tagging tickets by topic rather than tracking stuff off-bugtracker, which will help with both current proposal tracking/visibility and future proposals). 3. Worked on the OTF proposal with Isabela; Hope to finish the Tor Browser sections by this weekend. 4. Worked with Nick to get a cert for our OSX Tor Browser builds Isabela: 1) meeting Laura w/ Shari this Friday. Hope to hear better news from her. I emailed DRL requesting the follow up phone call they offered in the rejection email. I also pinged Dan to see if he is around, should be good to check in with him as well. 2) Working on OTF proposal, spent yesterday working with Mike on it. I hope to share what I have for Nick to review the deliverables I am writing there -- Nick I will do it before I go to DC, so you can give me your feedback till the weekend and I can continue working on it over the weekend. Mike will follow up with Georg on TBB deliverables as well. Roger I need you to give me names with their contacts to be used as reference. (Roger has done so) 3) Had sponsorT (or PT) meeting on Monday which was good to get a lot of information on what happened the past months and to figure out what to do next. Nima got a game plan to move on and I am follow up with Yawning (currently he is working on obfs5 but will pick up other PT stuff as well). 4) Next week on implementers meetings at DRL till the 20th (Wed). 20th is also the soft deadline for OTF full proposal and deadline for sponsorT report. Alison: 1. Still getting the community team in order but have recruited a few new members. The next meeting is 20 April so I'll be pinging people all week about it. 2. phoul and I have done a lot of work on the support team manual and if I can get my LDAP account approved, he and I will push our changes out together. I anticipate we'll be working on this through next week. 3. Planning to meet with members of the community council next week to go over the draft social contract, which we'll then share with tor-internal for feedback. Probably will do the same with the membership doc. 4. Juris, qbi, I and others will soon write the OTF concept note for Tor relay community capacity building. We've had a series of meetings with the different relay operators, and with their help and Moritz's we've got enough material to write the proposal. The objective here is to give support to relay operators worldwide, and that support includes legal resources, in-person meetings, and so forth. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXEJVMAAoJEC3ESO/4X7XBwzgH/2TUVNV23Q2ujtuj/0u0eSSb npVm5gHZLg7ko+tDixLv4NpAH7ZCFvJYGG7eQP8KMySaSb3KZvcU1Ztx08IJLRqX ElOLY5H+0M8KPEdW9GqCrlQiZUSFk5jlkmjbszV2rdWxjl6lLoVaMaSxkmexK4t/ vi1Y5wwIxj5++USQQkEc6vH8cYgMJtaOts5WmGJpg2XkkFacCcY6shM+bjH47UKQ xYOx5Gmg+rQqxN3aMmdLPqYJZyv5ghOaluyLKXl7ykBqQI/5y/XnkWP4YEh589zw 32J2aEi/mW7Jh8R1jcPacXTp+obht2KANC/aJ2+xnYa6TDuVsnBD51csI0ORguw= =zczi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Thanks for the note Karsten! On 04/15/2016 12:16 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote:
4. Juris, qbi, I and others will soon write the OTF concept note for Tor relay community capacity building. We've had a series of meetings with the different relay operators, and with their help and Moritz's we've got enough material to write the proposal. The objective here is to give support to relay operators worldwide, and that support includes legal resources, in-person meetings, and so forth. This is awesome! I have an ex-coworker who runs exit node and asked me questions about ISP etc .. and I ended up asking him to email tor-relays because I didn't know for sure what resources we had for it. Such dedicated resource will be great!
Cheers, Isabela -- PM at TorProject.org gpg fingerprint = 8F2A F9B6 D4A1 4D03 FDF1 B298 3224 4994 1506 4C7B @isa
Isabela:
Thanks for the note Karsten!
On 04/15/2016 12:16 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote:
4. Juris, qbi, I and others will soon write the OTF concept note for Tor relay community capacity building. We've had a series of meetings with the different relay operators, and with their help and Moritz's we've got enough material to write the proposal. The objective here is to give support to relay operators worldwide, and that support includes legal resources, in-person meetings, and so forth. This is awesome! I have an ex-coworker who runs exit node and asked me questions about ISP etc .. and I ended up asking him to email tor-relays because I didn't know for sure what resources we had for it. Such dedicated resource will be great!
Awesome! Yeah, general idea of this proposal is "what do relay operators need besides specifically technical resources and injections of cash?" and based on feedback from them, that seems to be: better ways for them to connect to other people in the relay community, comprehensive legal resources, a point person to serve as a community manager and help facilitate these things, and resources to help convince potential relay operators/organizations that this is a very good thing that they should do. If our concept note gets accepted, we will write the full proposal with more feedback from tor-relays, so let your friend know! Alison
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Isabela:
Thanks for the note Karsten!
On 04/15/2016 12:16 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote:
4. Juris, qbi, I and others will soon write the OTF concept note for Tor relay community capacity building. We've had a series of meetings with the different relay operators, and with their help and Moritz's we've got enough material to write the proposal. The objective here is to give support to relay operators worldwide, and that support includes legal resources, in-person meetings, and so forth. This is awesome! I have an ex-coworker who runs exit node and asked me questions about ISP etc .. and I ended up asking him to email tor-relays because I didn't know for sure what resources we had for it. Such dedicated resource will be great!
Awesome! Yeah, general idea of this proposal is "what do relay operators need besides specifically technical resources and injections of cash?" and based on feedback from them, that seems to be: better ways for them to connect to other people in the relay community, comprehensive legal resources, a point person to serve as a community manager and help facilitate these things, and resources to help convince potential relay operators/organizations that this is a very good thing that they should do.
If our concept note gets accepted, we will write the full proposal with more feedback from tor-relays, so let your friend know!
FWIW, I very often get personal emails from bridge operators asking for advice and assistance, which takes up quite a bit of my time. I would be super stoked if there were a person who could serve as the general point-of-contact for this, and I would also be happy to provide them with regular updates on advice for running bridges and PTs. -- ♥Ⓐ isis agora lovecruft _________________________________________________________ OpenPGP: 4096R/0A6A58A14B5946ABDE18E207A3ADB67A2CDB8B35 Current Keys: https://fyb.patternsinthevoid.net/isis.txt
isis:
Alison transcribed 1.5K bytes:
Awesome! Yeah, general idea of this proposal is "what do relay operators need besides specifically technical resources and injections of cash?" and based on feedback from them, that seems to be: better ways for them to connect to other people in the relay community, comprehensive legal resources, a point person to serve as a community manager and help facilitate these things, and resources to help convince potential relay operators/organizations that this is a very good thing that they should do.
If our concept note gets accepted, we will write the full proposal with more feedback from tor-relays, so let your friend know!
FWIW, I very often get personal emails from bridge operators asking for advice and assistance, which takes up quite a bit of my time. I would be super stoked if there were a person who could serve as the general point-of-contact for this, and I would also be happy to provide them with regular updates on advice for running bridges and PTs.
Thanks for this Isis, this is the perfect kind of thing for the community manager to take care of. We will add it as one of our deliverables. Alison
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 15/04/16 18:20, Damian Johnson wrote:
Thanks for the update!
Two things from last week that still want attention: 3) tor blog contract details 4) monthly reports?
So seems these two weren't discussed beyond saying they were things to discuss?
Yes, that's correct. We should bring them up again next week when Shari is around (I hope). All the best, Karsten -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXESdqAAoJEC3ESO/4X7XBQ/QIAK4yFAQb36FhOJRZFyTIbpIy aPduDyC381Tto2csme9BV0luYSeyX8mL+E9iv4GHFu289hSWJfxZMxheOcYCKuRj EXxgmkAgoWHl/Hl7sde0wavq8UuU4Cc24QBwNu0Ix3GY6ozDX5xGGaVbAxq6a5Cd +hzYqb40c+pzGjTH3R4xWfz+5/ThX149z8tPWV7qkpPRi8jozJuZ0bAa2Rzq4rW1 +UvLSRDkeBL7DASaL5H6Mkb15OshY0NpdgaPGaY3FmRxSFiCvG87K90nv/fWZ1ST /AW2ZTGJLp3MlHv7FjFak1E7sedcurWc6LEgakndzSuLWNumR19l8Mq2hY2r5Sk= =Kbam -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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