(No Vegas Team meeting on November 28th.)

Vegas Team Meeting Notes DECEMBER 5 2019:

+ NEW BUSINESS

Gus - IFF Tor Village

Pili - Are we all ok with receiving funding on our github account through github sponsors? Just double checking before I go ahead and put us on the waitlist… Discussion: This would allow people to donate to us through out GitHub account (https://github.com/sponsors); there don’t appear to be any commitments from our end on this, so yes, we’ll do it.

Matt - When is the next feedback cycle? Discussion: Isa and ewyatt need to go back over the feedback and adjust the process; they will discuss it soon and make a timeline for the next cycle.

+ GENERAL NOTES

Antonela - reviewed S9 report, writing UX team November report - cooking with onions, S27 - working with TB december tickets - working with OONI UX tickets, S30 - planning user research with communities with nah, S9 - working with WWW - talking with EFF's Soraya Okuda to come up with a set of education materials together.

Steph - working on OTF learning lab app for onion services - EOY campaign: successful Giving Tuesday. Working on a post interviewing Cindy - Outreachy internship begins now. annalee_ will be working with me. - Reviewing MOSS post - in touch with b-renna at riseup to help them w more promotion - Cliqz launched a search engine that features onion addresses https://twitter.com/MarcAlHames/status/1202607453394874369

Gus - Reviewed Sponsor9 phase2 report. Bravo! - Onboarding our new Outreachy intern, c1e0. Welcome! :) - Writing blogpost for the Human Rights Day. - Following up with Global South training partnerships. In December we have trainings schedule in India, Uganda, Colombia, Brazil. - IFF Tor Village and main proposal - Doing a Tor talk at criptofesta Sao Paulo this Saturday (12/07)

Roger - Defcon video is up: https://blog.torproject.org/next-chapter-anti-censorship - Rightscon submissions are now open. - Any progress on putting together Costa Rica initial invite list? Time is passing.

Gaba - s31 report and blogpost - sV report - grant writing follow up for walking onions - DRL implementers meeting - follow up on reducing MOSS grant proposal (metrics team is starting to work on it at the end of January) - we are collecting feedback on gitlab migration - doing a Tor workshop at newsroom in Montevideo when visiting next week. - put gus in contact with virtualroad for trainings - put antonela-hiro-asn in contact with virtualroad for answering questions about onionizing their services

Anarcat - ooni load investigation (#32660) - disk space issues for metrics team (#32644) - more puppet code sync with upstream, almost there - thinking cap on: less productive this week, but trying to think about larger issues (like fixing our installers) - TPA meeting decision: raised the disk size of the prometheus, 5EUR/mth extra (in allocated budget) - TPA meeting discussion: not sure when to do the next meeting and if monthly meetings are still relevant - wondering about support continuity during christmas vacations and how much support we provide in general, see also #31243, maybe room for a larger discussion about SLA?

Philipp - Will give a Tor presentation at my old college in Austria (https://www.fh-ooe.at/en/hagenberg-campus/) - Will possibly give a second presentation there in April, but more business-focused - In the process of adding two new university default bridges - More BridgeDB progress (sponsor 30) and pursuing another data set for sponsor 28 - Grant writing for a "transition to practice" project - Investigating evolving snowflake block in China

Pili - Finally finished and submitted the S9 Phase 2 report \o/ Thank you to everyone who helped out! - S44 report - S27 monthly and work completion reports - General end/start of month housekeeping - Generally Picking up where I left off at the end of October now the reporting is behind me...

GeKo - Tor Browser team lead transitioning is working well and almost done. Please ping Matt for Tor Browser issues from now on :) - trying to finish all my Tor Browser work until the December holidays are starting - trying to find the capacity to think about upcoming network-health work and its priorities (gaba: we might want to sync about that at some point assuming this will fall onto your plate from a PM PoV, but I probably won't get to it this year anymore due to last minute Tor Browser work. Maybe some time in week 2? <geko: week 2 of january? yes, let's talk then. --gaba> Sounds good, thanks.)

Alex - Shadow Simulation Developer hire process seems to be going well. - A bit behind on my S28 deliverables, but hope to catch up on that next week. - The feedback from the Gitlab Ticket survey went out and all teams have submitted really valuable feedback there. Thank you! - Lots of late meetings this week with a lot of smaller follows up to do. - We have an issue with Gitlab we need to figure out what is since it makes the service more difficult to use right now.

Sarah - EOY campaign continues to go well. We have now surpassed that total amount of organic website income raised in the entirety of the 2018 campaign. - We are starting to see some larger gifts in response to our postal mailing. - Human Rights Day card going in the postal mail in the next couple of days to major donors and US monthly donors. - Compiling news articles to include in a mailing to sponsors.

Matt: - Releases! - Team lead transition (finishing remaining pieces) - Working on roadmap of Tor Browser for next year - Thinking about how we can sustainably grow the "Applications" team for coordination, larger than Tor Browser

isabela: - Met w/ Dees from Mozilla, will have a follow up meeting next week - Met w/ Will and Alec Muffet while in London - DRL Implementers meeting in London

Nick: - Worked on proposal for walking onions funding. - New stable releases coming out soon. No major security bugs, but a backport of 32108 (accountingmax bug) is en route. - Winter is making me a bit brainless. Please remind me if there is something I should b doing for you.

Erin - Shadow dev hiring - org/HR stuff

Karsten: - Worked on proposal for OnionPerf funding. - Deployed the new Python-based exit scanner on an AWS instance and let it run over the weekend, with success. - Improved runtime of metrics website daily updater from 12+ to under 6 hours (#25924). - Worked on an Onionoo patch to avoid rewriting unchanged files in order to be nicer towards the ganeti cluster (#32660).

Mike: - Scalability meeting + summary + followup