[community] Building Community in Southern Europe

Fri Jun 29 10:10:06 UTC 2018

Hello everyone,

A quick update. We held our first event in Lisbon with an expectation of
about 8 or 9 people. 25 signed up. It seems the interest here in Portugal
is more than I anticipated.

Unfortunately, the library refused to let us use the larger room (with no
real explanation), so we needed to split the event into two smaller events.
One took place yesterday with great success. We had many individuals show
up with varied interests, and many people took the "how to run a relay"
cards that we printed.

The next event for the other half of the people who signed up will happen
soon (need to hear back from the library to know when). I'll let you know
how that goes, and then I'll start preparing the next events! Hopefully we
can have a lively Tor community and Privacy community form in Lisbon, and
then spread to other cities in Portugal and the rest of southern Europe. :D

Thanks,

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 Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 8:14 AM, Vinícius Zavam <egypcio at googlemail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> 2018-06-08 17:43 GMT+00:00 gus <ggus at riseup.net>:
> >
> > 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
> <https://maps.google.com/?q=2+MetroTech+Center,+10th+Floor+Brooklyn,+NY+11201&entry=gmail&source=g>
> > > Brooklyn, NY 11201
> <https://maps.google.com/?q=2+MetroTech+Center,+10th+Floor+Brooklyn,+NY+11201&entry=gmail&source=g>
> > > 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
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > PGP: 427F 2D71 7664 D215 378C B412 8BDC 87FB 7215 E189
> > XMPP/OTR: 62f58f8062da3e48e0aa076f20807ecb1488658e
>
> btw, extra materials that might help ...
>
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/
> CommunityTeam/Projects/GlobalSouth
> + https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/GoodBadISPs
>
> http://bptfp7py2wclht26.onion
> + https://www.torbsd.org/open-letter-pt.html (Portuguese)
> + https://wiki.torbsd.org/doku.php?id=pt:start (Portuguese)
>
> https://cpiciber.codingrights.org/tor-onion/ (Portuguese)
>
>
> --
> Vinícius Zavam
> keybase.io/egypcio/key.asc
>
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