Hello,

The OONI team made steady progress in March 2019.

## OONI Explorer

Over the last year, we have been working on revamping OONI Explorer entirely. This has involved re-writing all of the OONI Explorer codebase in react.js (using next.js), re-designing the platform entirely to improve its UX, creating a more powerful search tool (which required a series of improvements to the OONI data processing pipeline), and adding a number of new features (based on community requests).

During March 2019, we:     * Worked on the new country profile pages

* Worked on the  the landing page and highlights page

* Created the initial design of the mobile version for all major pages

We expect to launch the revamped OONI Explorer in May 2019.

## System for sharing OONI metadb with third parties

We have been working on setting up a system for sharing OONI's metadata database with third parties. This will allow external people to setup their own instance of the OONI measurement database that powers OONI API and OONI Explorer.

The progress of our work on this can be tracked via the following ticket: https://github.com/ooni/sysadmin/issues/272

## ndt7

OONI's Simone has been working on an improved performance test called ndt7, which is meant to replace the NDT test currently available in the OONI Probe mobile app. This development activity started during his OTF fellowship at Measurement Lab and he has continued to work on it since. During March 2019, he worked on the Golang server and on the Golang and JavaScript clients. By the end of the month, the code quality and readiness was near a first alpha version.

See https://github.com/m-lab/ndt-server and https://github.com/m-lab/ndt7-client-golang/pull/3.

## OONI pipeline

We worked on improving the testing and documentation of the OONI pipeline:

* https://github.com/ooni/pipeline/pull/145 * https://github.com/ooni/pipeline/pull/144 * https://github.com/ooni/pipeline/pull/147 * https://github.com/ooni/pipeline/pull/149

## OONI Probe mobile apps

We worked on adding support for uploading non-uploaded measurements in OONI Probe Android and iOS:

* https://github.com/ooni/probe-ios/pull/258 * https://github.com/ooni/probe-android/pull/214

We finalized the implementation of unit tests for OONI Probe Android and iOS:

* https://github.com/ooni/probe-ios/pull/246 * https://github.com/ooni/probe-android/pull/195

We released OONI Probe 2.0.6 iOS with an OONI Run fix: https://github.com/ooni/probe-ios/pull/261

## Backend Engineer interviews

We interviewed a number of backend engineers who applied for the OONI job opening (https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/). We are now finalizing the interview rounds and hope to hire an engineer by mid-May 2019.

## Community activities

### Vietnam Cyber Dialogue (VCD)

OONI's Maria & Arturo participated at the Vietnam Cyber Dialogue (VCD) in Valencia, Spain, on 31st March 2019. As part of their participation, they facilitated a session on censorship measurement.

Information about the event is available here: https://internetfreedomfestival.org/vietnam-cyber-dialogue/

### Localization Lab Summit

OONI's Elio participated at the Localization Lab Summit in Valencia, Spain, on 31st March 2019. As part of his participation at the Summit, he met with translators and facilitated sessions about how UX and localization can play better together in order to have better internalization support.

Information about the event is available here: https://www.localizationlab.org/blog/2019/2/22/join-the-localization-lab-sum...

### Community meeting

On 26th March 2019, we hosted an OONI community meeting on our Slack channel (https://slack.openobservatory.org/). As part of the meeting, we shared updates on OONI sessions facilitated at the Internet Freedom Festival (IFF) and information about the OONI job opening for a backend engineer position (https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/).

## Userbase

In March 2019, OONI Probe was run 700,880 times from 5,115 different vantage points in 211 countries around the world.

This information can also be found through our stats: https://api.ooni.io/stats

~ The OONI team.