Jury duty this month, but that was more than made up for with tasty, tasty pizza - thank you Shari! February had lots of great stuff.

============================================================ Google Summer of Code ============================================================

We have been accepted!

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-google-summer-code-2017

Got a project to pitch? It's not too late! Students are already rolling into irc so if you want to mentor this summer the sooner you let me know the better.

============================================================ Community Council ============================================================

Tag teaming with Alison on a formal proposal for our community council. Initial council attempt hit some potholes but I'm glad for it since it's given us a much better idea of what we want the council to become.

Fingers crossed that it's successful!

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Besides this just a handful of Stem changes...

* Patrick migrated our cryptographic descriptor validation from pycrypto (which is unmaintained) to cryptography. (#21086)

* Further sped up our tests. Unit and integ tests now run 15% faster, and @only_run_once is fixed so the 'RUN_ALL' target is dramatically faster.

* Corrected unesacaping of controller responses. Thansk to this authentication cookies with non-English characters in their path now work.

See ya all in Amsterdam!

PS. Swapping from tor-reports@ to tor-project@ for this because we're likely gonna be merging the former into this list.