## Grants

- Awarded a $250,000 general operating support grant from MDF. \o/ - Submitted general support grant to the Rose Foundation. - Invited to submit a full proposal to OTF to make usability improvements to Tor Browser. - Invited to submit a full grant proposal to DRL to modularize the Tor network codebase. - Wrote general language about Tor, onion services, and bridges for use in grants, blog posts, fundraising campaigns, song lyrics, wedding vows, etc. etc.

## Other

- Coordinated Tor’s participation in the current Outreachy internship round [1]. - Worked on copy for Tor’s end-of-year fundraising campaign, headlined Powering Digital Resistance. - Wrote about upcoming open days and the relay meetup in Montreal [2]. - Wrote about a bug bounty payout and a call to action for technical folks to help test next-gen onion services. - Wrote about new Tor KIST developments and added my own pun to the canon [4].

As a reminder, you can help me gather information on Tor projects that could benefit from grant money by filling out the grant pipeline [5]. (I’m not the person who makes decides what to fund, but it’s good to know what people are working on.)

Tommy

[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/Outreachy [2] https://blog.torproject.org/all-are-welcome-tors-open-hack-days, https://blog.torproject.org/relay-operators-come-hang-out-montreal [3] https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell-tors-new-traffic-scheduling-featur... [4] https://blog.torproject.org/report-bugs-get-money-like-atechdad, https://blog.torproject.org/we-want-you-test-next-gen-onion-services [5] https://pipeline.torproject.net