companies and organizations running relays

Hi all, Phoul and I are working on a blog post/guide to encourage more relay operators. The post will include technical and legal information for relay operators, but also things that are in more of a "social" category, like information for starting a relay operators group on a college campus. In that section, we want to highlight a few of the companies or non-profit organizations that run relays, but we're realizing that we don't actually have an up to date list. I'm wondering if folks on this list can help me by confirming the organizations that they know of running relays. Thanks! And if you're interested in contributing to the relay operators draft we have so far, please ping me off list. Something this comprehensive can always use an extra pair of eyes. Thanks, Alison -- Alison Macrina Community Team Lead The Tor Project

-------- Original Message -------- On 5 Dec 2017, 19:03, Alison Macrina wrote: I'm wondering if folks on this list can help me by confirming the organizations that they know of running relays. Checking in on behalf of AS28715 / BrassHornCommunications.uk / https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/family:518FF8708698E1DA09C823C36D35DF89...

Hey, In the Netherlands there is Hart voor Internetvrijheid that runs a couple of relays. In addition to that, there's a yearly informal meeting open to potential relay operators with a lot of room for interactive discussions on operating relays. I myself work for the leading Dutch digital civil rights organisation Bits of Freedom and we provide generic information in Dutch on running relays. See for example these two blog posts, highlighting legal and technical points to consider when running a relay. https://www.bof.nl/2014/12/17/juridische-risicos-van-het-draaien-van-een-tor... https://www.bof.nl/2014/08/15/het-tor-netwerk-helpen-zonder-iemand-dwars-te-... Ciao, Rejo ++ 05/12/17 19:03 +0000 - Alison Macrina:
Hi all,
Phoul and I are working on a blog post/guide to encourage more relay operators. The post will include technical and legal information for relay operators, but also things that are in more of a "social" category, like information for starting a relay operators group on a college campus. In that section, we want to highlight a few of the companies or non-profit organizations that run relays, but we're realizing that we don't actually have an up to date list.
I'm wondering if folks on this list can help me by confirming the organizations that they know of running relays.
Thanks! And if you're interested in contributing to the relay operators draft we have so far, please ping me off list. Something this comprehensive can always use an extra pair of eyes.
Thanks,
Alison
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I’ve been operating an exit node in an academic setting for about four years and I would be happy to kibitz your guide. On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 2:03 PM Alison Macrina <alison@torproject.org> wrote:
Hi all,
Phoul and I are working on a blog post/guide to encourage more relay operators. The post will include technical and legal information for relay operators, but also things that are in more of a "social" category, like information for starting a relay operators group on a college campus. In that section, we want to highlight a few of the companies or non-profit organizations that run relays, but we're realizing that we don't actually have an up to date list.
I'm wondering if folks on this list can help me by confirming the organizations that they know of running relays.
Thanks! And if you're interested in contributing to the relay operators draft we have so far, please ping me off list. Something this comprehensive can always use an extra pair of eyes.
Thanks,
Alison
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Please add: Digital human rights activist/advocacy NGO Digitalcourage e.V., Germany / https://digitalcourage.de / https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/family:9EAD5B2D3DBD96DBC80DCE423B0C345E... On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 07:03:00PM +0000, Alison Macrina wrote:
I'm wondering if folks on this list can help me by confirming the organizations that they know of running relays.
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Simply have a look at https://torservers.net/partners.html Greetings Christian Pietsch:
Please add:
Digital human rights activist/advocacy NGO Digitalcourage e.V., Germany / https://digitalcourage.de / https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/family:9EAD5B2D3DBD96DBC80DCE423B0C345E...
On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 07:03:00PM +0000, Alison Macrina wrote:
I'm wondering if folks on this list can help me by confirming the organizations that they know of running relays.
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On 05/12/17 20:03, Alison Macrina wrote:
Hi all,
Phoul and I are working on a blog post/guide to encourage more relay operators. The post will include technical and legal information for relay operators, but also things that are in more of a "social" category, like information for starting a relay operators group on a college campus. In that section, we want to highlight a few of the companies or non-profit organizations that run relays, but we're realizing that we don't actually have an up to date list.
I'm wondering if folks on this list can help me by confirming the organizations that they know of running relays.
Thanks! And if you're interested in contributing to the relay operators draft we have so far, please ping me off list. Something this comprehensive can always use an extra pair of eyes.
Thanks,
Alison
Sure, We at Modio AB are running a fast exit and a relay (have had more relays in the past, but went for an exit instead) We'd be happy to answer questions or be a point of contact for this. Regards, D.S.

On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 07:03:00PM +0000, Alison Macrina wrote:
Hi all,
Phoul and I are working on a blog post/guide to encourage more relay operators. The post will include technical and legal information for relay operators, but also things that are in more of a "social" category, like information for starting a relay operators group on a college campus. In that section, we want to highlight a few of the companies or non-profit organizations that run relays, but we're realizing that we don't actually have an up to date list.
I'm wondering if folks on this list can help me by confirming the organizations that they know of running relays.
In Chile, Derechos Digitales runs an exit relay and Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente runs a middle relay (both non-profits). saludos. -i

Hi Alison, The Lebanon Public Libraries in Lebanon NH are still running our exit. Regards Chuck On 12/05/2017 02:03 PM, Alison Macrina wrote:
Hi all,
Phoul and I are working on a blog post/guide to encourage more relay operators. The post will include technical and legal information for relay operators, but also things that are in more of a "social" category, like information for starting a relay operators group on a college campus. In that section, we want to highlight a few of the companies or non-profit organizations that run relays, but we're realizing that we don't actually have an up to date list.
I'm wondering if folks on this list can help me by confirming the organizations that they know of running relays.
Thanks! And if you're interested in contributing to the relay operators draft we have so far, please ping me off list. Something this comprehensive can always use an extra pair of eyes.
Thanks,
Alison

On 12/06/2017 07:01 AM, Chuck McAndrew wrote:
Hi Alison, The Lebanon Public Libraries in Lebanon NH are still running our exit. Regards Chuck
Speaking from local knowledge, one would have thought that libraries setting up Tor browsers for their patrons would be a no-brainer, but it's slow going. That said, plans are afoot for a local non-profit maker space to have a legally distinct non-profit hacker space established at its venue to run an exit. Privacy advocacy takes some savvy...

MIT CSAIL has operated an exit for many years, longer than there's been CSAIL actually started as a pet project of min in (now defunct) AI Lab. At this point it has grown some level of officialness. -Jon On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 07:03:00PM +0000, Alison Macrina wrote: :Hi all, : :Phoul and I are working on a blog post/guide to encourage more relay :operators. The post will include technical and legal information for :relay operators, but also things that are in more of a "social" :category, like information for starting a relay operators group on a :college campus. In that section, we want to highlight a few of the :companies or non-profit organizations that run relays, but we're :realizing that we don't actually have an up to date list. : :I'm wondering if folks on this list can help me by confirming the :organizations that they know of running relays. : :Thanks! And if you're interested in contributing to the relay operators :draft we have so far, please ping me off list. Something this :comprehensive can always use an extra pair of eyes. : :Thanks, : :Alison : :-- :Alison Macrina :Community Team Lead :The Tor Project :_______________________________________________ :tor-relays mailing list :tor-relays@lists.torproject.org :https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Hello Allison, there is a non profit from Germany running some relays and some exit nodes, they would love to run more but finding hosters is hard. They are called "Artikel 5 e.V." Their webpage is http://artikel5ev.de and you can contact them via http://artikel5ev.de/kontakt/, they're reading the list as well but only as a digest, so replys look odd. They are happy to give guidance, also if people do not have the money to run relays/exits they are happy about admins supporting them by donating some time. They are also on Twitter https://twitter.com/artikel5ev Thanks yl Am 05.12.2017 um 20:03 schrieb Alison Macrina:
Hi all,
Phoul and I are working on a blog post/guide to encourage more relay operators. The post will include technical and legal information for relay operators, but also things that are in more of a "social" category, like information for starting a relay operators group on a college campus. In that section, we want to highlight a few of the companies or non-profit organizations that run relays, but we're realizing that we don't actually have an up to date list.
I'm wondering if folks on this list can help me by confirming the organizations that they know of running relays.
Thanks! And if you're interested in contributing to the relay operators draft we have so far, please ping me off list. Something this comprehensive can always use an extra pair of eyes.
Thanks,
Alison
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Alison Macrina
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Christian Pietsch
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Chuck McAndrew
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D.S. Ljungmark
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Gareth Llewellyn
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ilv@torproject.org
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Jonathan D. Proulx
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Kenneth Freeman
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Rejo Zenger
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Tyler Durden
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yl
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Zack Weinberg