[global-south] next steps from Tor Meeting

[Alison]

Hi Fumiko,

Fumiko:
> It is very quiet in here...
> 
> About the Tor meeting in the southern part of the planet, I'm not sure
> in what extent I could contribute to organizing and planning it, since
> I'm not living in there right now.

It's okay if you don't live there! We can all still benefit from
feedback about what cities might be a better fit than others. I'm
working on a pad right now where I'm breaking down cost, travel times,
and some other factors for the main cities we discussed at the AMS
meeting. I'll share that within a few hours.

> I think I can be more useful particularly in creating/providing
> resources in spanish for the local Tor meetups and for the ultimate Tor
> meeting. Really, there isn't much non-sensacionalist, positive,
> accurate, and updated info about the Tor project in audio/video/graphics
> in spanish. I think these are quite important to expand the knowledge
> about Tor in latinamerican communities.

That would be really useful. We are working on the very early stages of
outreach.torproject.org, and that would be a perfect place to host
materials like this. Right now, we only have things like this:
https://people.torproject.org/~karsten/tor-brochure/tor-brochure-es.pdf.

> So, if anyone wants to work on that line or have more thoughts on this,
> please let me know and we can see the way forward.
> 
> Thank you Alison for setting up the mailing list!
> 
> Abrazos, Clau.
> 
> On 04/14/17 21:51, Alison wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I want to bump my earlier message to this list, since the list is so
>> brand new and maybe not many people were subscribed earlier in the week.
>> tl;dr, I want to start brainstorming and planning for the first Tor
>> Meeting in the Global South.
>>
>> Alison
>>
>> Alison:
>>> Hola todos/todas!
>>>
>>> Here are a few of the action items we discussed during our two Global
>>> South sessions at the Amsterdam Tor Meeting:
>>>
>>> *Get a Tor Project board member from the Global South: find some names
>>> of possible candidates and then send to Linus and Biella (board members)
>>> * Create local Tor meetups and have Tor Project provide resources
>>> (money, people, other materials)
>>> * Hold the Tor Meeting in the Global South
>>> * Support local conferences, eg Cryptorave
>>> * More Tor infrastructure in the Global South (relays, DirAuths,
>>> BWAuths, etc)
>>>
>>> These were the items that seemed to come up most frequently in our
>>> discussion and seem like good starting points for this communication
>>> channel. There are more action items and more discussion points here [1].
>>>
>>> One thing I'd like to prioritize personally is holding the Tor Meeting
>>> in the Global South. We discussed some possible locations and some of
>>> the metrics we'd need to consider in identifying good places. Those
>>> metrics include:
>>> - overall cost
>>> - visa requirements
>>> - length of travel from the EU and the US/Canada (though we will
>>> consider this, we discussed how people in the Global South have had to
>>> deal with long travel times to the EU for all past meetings, so if we
>>> find a good place that is a great distance from the EU, so be it)
>>> - internet speeds
>>> - possible conference center locations
>>> - Tor's relationship to the local community (the relationship as it
>>> exists, and opportunities to build it more)
>>>
>>> Any other data points that we should consider? Anyone want to throw out
>>> some initial ideas for host cities? Some of the cities already discussed
>>> a bit include Quito, Mexico City, São Paulo, and Lima. There was some
>>> rough consensus that South America is the best first place for a meeting
>>> in the South, but it would be great to hear from people who disagree on
>>> that.
>>>
>>> Alison
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2017Amsterdam/Notes/GlobalSouth2
>>>
>>>
>>>
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