Quick report on what I got up to in October. Grants: - Submitted a grant to DRL to modularize Core Tor. - Gave OTF more info about our design proposal. - Researched a whole bunch of new grants and started noodling on grants stuff for 2018. As a reminder, https://pipeline.torproject.net exists as a place where you can tell me about projects you’d do if you had the funding. What gets funded isn’t my decision, but I can do research and maybe play matchmaker with suitable foundations. Other: - We launched our end-of-year crowdfunding campaign! [1] We’ve raised over $50,000 in the first week alone (i.e. $100,000, thanks to Mozilla’s matching program). Super grateful to the rest of the comms team for their help getting this off the ground. o/ - Coordinated Tor’s participation in the Outreachy internship program. - This weekend, I’ll be down in San Francisco for the Aaron Swartz hackathon. See ya there? [2] - Dyed my hair blue [3]. [1] https://blog.torproject.org/powering-digital-resistance-help-mozilla [2] https://www.aaronswartzday.org/sanfrancisco/ [3] https://twitter.com/tommycollison/status/921781336737660928