[global-south] Stauts of Global South Projects

[George]

Alison Macrina:
> On 04/09/2018 03:52 PM, Rafael Bonifaz wrote:
>> Hi again,
> 
>> I see there are two projects in the trac page of Global South
>> team[1]:
> 
>> * Tor Relay Campaign in Latin America * Global South Tor Trainer
>> Support
> 
>> There isn't much information of the status of those projects. What 
>> actions are being taking for the Tor Relay Campaign? Where do you
>> need help?
> 
>> Best,
> 
>> Rafael
> 
> 
>> [1] 
>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/CommunityTeam/
> Projects/GlobalSouth
> 
> Hi
> 
> Rafael,
> 
> Welcome to the list!
> 
> Sorry that the wiki isn't updated -- that's my fault! I can give you a
> brief update on the projects here, and maybe some others on this list
> can help:
> 
> - Tor Relay Campaign in Latin America
> 
> ilv is working on this directly, so I'll let him give an update. But
> in addition to this campaign, a number of people have been holding Tor
> meetups for users and relay operators in LATAM, so that's another way
> that relay operation has been encouraged in the region.
> 
> - Global South Tor trainer support
> 
> This project is a little less active now. We had a small amount of
> funding for supporting Tor outreach work in LATAM, and we gave it out
> to different trainers on an as-need basis. That's still happening
> somewhat, but it expanded into us looking for a funder to make this an
> even bigger effort. Ideally we'd like to be able to support many Tor
> trainings/meetups and fund the associated costs like travel and
> resources.
> 
> Other things that are happening:
> - hiring a community liaison to do some of the outreach work listed abov
> e
> - holding the first Tor Meeting in LATAM (Mexico City Sept-Oct 2018)
> - usability/outreach work in LATAM and East Africa
> - making more connections with Tor people in the Global South and
> bringing them to the Tor Meeting
> 
> Anyone else want to chime in with what I'm missing?

You're not *missing* it, but I'm wondering about determining two or
three annual events like open source cons in LATAM that the TPO could
focus on, meaning:

* have a table with swag

* submit presentations

* have a relay ops meeting as a BoF

* make sure there's a decent number of people attending from TPO, even
if it means dealing with travel costs

Starting a consistent presence at some events matters... since those you
see annually gives us credibility.

As a side note, maintaining relay/bridge reports specifically on LATAM
might be useful.  I don't mean just run them yourself, but maybe have
them send automatically monthly to global-south at .  Let's make LATAM
nodes part of the landscape.

g

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