[community] Building Community in Southern Europe

[gus]

Hi Kevin, please put me in contact with this folks in Portugal. I'd love
to help you and them to organize a cryptoparty in Lisbon! :)

Great work! :))

cheers!,
Gus

Em Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 07:00:28AM -0400, Kevin Gallagher escreveu:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Sorry I went dark for a while. Just wanted to give an update about what's
> going on.
> 
> I'm currently in Portugal and settled in nicely. I've had a few meetings
> with a CS student named Francisco, who seems genuinely excited about
> building up a general privacy scene here in Lisbon. Apparently there is no
> privacy scene here currently. He has a few interested parties already, and
> he needs my help setting up a Cryptoparty in Lisbon, so I'm currently
> helping with that. After we set that up we will be talking about setting up
> something more Tor-specific. I'm also trying to encourage him to join the
> Tor mailing lists and IRC channels so TPO and the Tor community can easily
> reach out to him in the future.
> 
> As for Spain, well, I haven't even had time to think about that yet. I've
> been so busy with organizing this stuff here and doing my day job that I've
> not had time to reach out to anyone. I'm wondering if this is something a
> few of us at PETS can talk about and action.
> 
> Anyway, I'll give more updates as they become available.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kevin
> 
> Kevin Gallagher
> PhD Candidate, Department of Computer Science
> New York University Tandon School of Engineering
> 2 MetroTech Center, 10th Floor
> Brooklyn, NY 11201
> Phone: (757) 202-8961
> Email: kevin.gallagher at nyu.edu
> Key Fingerprint: D02B 25CB 0F7D E276 06C3  BF08 53E4 C50F 8247 4861
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 12:10 PM, Kevin Gallagher <kcg295 at nyu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Sorry I haven't been around for community meetings. These past few weeks
> > have been a bit busy.
> >
> > Soon I'm going to be heading over to Portugal, and I'll also spend some
> > time in Spain. I'll be there for the whole summer. I remember that after
> > one of our NYC meetings we discussed that the (known) Tor community in
> > southern Europe is quite small. While I'm there I'd like to try to build it
> > up and get the people there more involved (if that's fine with TPO). So far
> > I reached out and set up a meeting with one university student who is
> > interested in Internet freedom and privacy, but I'd rather not put all of
> > my eggs into one basket.
> >
> > Are there any tips about how I should go about trying to build up a
> > community while I'm there? Any places that typically work in community
> > building efforts (libraries, schools, etc.), especially for meeting space?
> > I'd love any tips on how I should approach this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > --
> > Kevin Gallagher
> > Ph.D. Candidate
> > Center For Cybersecurity
> > NYU Tandon School of Engineering
> > Key Fingerprint: D02B 25CB 0F7D E276 06C3  BF08 53E4 C50F 8247 4861
> >
> >

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