Hi,

Here's Community Team report for October 2019.

Weekly meetings, every Monday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC.

Outreachy and Documentation ===========================

In October the Tor Project applied to participate in the Outreachy round that runs December to March 2020.

At least 30 applicants contacted the Community Team to introduce themselves and start contributing to the project "Help Tor Project support our users".

We wrote a newcomer guide https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/Outreachy#Newcomerguide and explained our documentation and support workflow.

Applicants answered users in informal support channels (i.e, Reddit), joined us on IRC and our weekly meetings. :D

It was a very busy month and we had many documentation tickets fixed. The new Outreachy intern will be announced by the end of November and will be mentored by Gus.

Sponsor work ============

This month we continued to work to get partners to sign the partnership contract. We're helping them to organize the first round of Tor trainings in their cities, and sharing our training materials.

At the moment we have at least one partner for each country that we visited in the last year.

We also updated the training material after Tor Browser 9 release.

Antonela, Gaba and Gus met to discuss Sponsor30 and Community+UX teams activities. Besides running bridges and talking with more volunteers, we would like to have some activities with other digital security trainers and users in general to understand how they learn and get bridges. Relevant ticket: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/31870

User feedback and support =========================

After Tor Browser 9 release, users contacted us and asked about:

- Letterboxing: https://support.torproject.org/tbb/maximized-torbrowser-window/ Ticket: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/32324 - Windows: api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll is missing - https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/32327 - Black screen in some Linux distros: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/32215 - Translation issues in Tor Browser for Android.

Outreach ========

- Pili and Brabo are organizing Tor Project and more privacy activities in FOSDEM, wiki page: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2020Brussels. [CFP] Decentralized Internet & Privacy devroom @ FOSDEM 2020, deadline for talks - 1 Dec 2019: https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002903.html.

- (Mexico City) Carlos held a workshop about Tails and Tor at UAM university: http://multimedia.xoc.uam.mx/index.php/13a-semana-de-la-cultura-digital-en-la-uamxochimilco/ good news is that 25 computers in the library now have Tor Browser installed, which used to have only adobe and apple software.

- (Naples) Gus talked about Tor "Aromi e lacrime del routing cipolla", at MSAck.org hacklab: https://blog.torproject.org/events/tor-aromi-e-lacrime-del-routing-cipolla-naples

- (London) Mozfest: Pili, Gaba, Hiro, Nah and many Tor friends went to Mozfest: https://blog.torproject.org/events/mozfest-london

- (Bern) Ahf talked at Swiss Web Security Day: https://blog.torproject.org/events/swiss-web-security-day-bern

- (Taipei) Roger talked at Tor Sharing: https://blog.torproject.org/events/tor-sharing-taipei

- Global South monthly IRC meeting happened Oct 30th: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/global-south/2019-October/000266.html Next Global South meeting scheduled @ 29 November, 1600 UTC, #tor-south

Meta ====

Meeting notes

* Community Team Meeting Notes - 07 Oct 2019 - https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-community-team/2019-October/000328.html * Community Team Meeting Notes - 14 Oct 2019 - https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-community-team/2019-October/000333.html * Community Team Meeting Notes - 21 Oct 2019 - https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-community-team/2019-October/000337.html * Community Team Meeting Notes - 28 Oct 2019 - https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-community-team/2019-November/000339.html