[community] Get in touch with Community

[Dave Rolek]

On 2019-04-06 16:21, Dave Rolek wrote:
> On 2019-04-02 14:15, Alessandro Fiori wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> I have developed, with help by devs, a new project to bring Tor on
>> Docker and facilitate users to run their own relays through Docker
>> images and Docker Containers, publishing this work on GitHub and
>> DockerHub.
>>
>> Since I want to help people running their own services and relays, I
>> would like to get in touch with people, for asking them to review and
>> make the code better!
>>
>> I would like to open a site as  a guideline for people to my project.
>> Since I am developing the same scripts for Linux and Windows (I used
>> Linux Containers to build this project) and since my project is
>> newborn, I was thinking to spread the word to everyone, but I can't
>> find a process, or a place to "tell everyone".
>>
>> The site I'm building is intended as a safe place for people direct
>> helping, saving the responses for future uses (like a normal forum).
>>
>> Can you tell me, how  can I get in touch with the Community?
>>
>> If you are interested to review my project, or valuate it about
>> telling people, the repository links are the following:
>>
>> GitHub:
>> https://github.com/randomtable/ChimeraOS
>>
>> DockerHub:
>> https://hub.docker.com/u/alessandrofiori
>>
>> Many thanks!
>>
>> Alessandro Fiori
> 
> 
> Hi Alessandro,
> 
> Welcome to the Tor community!
> 
> From a glance, I see you've already been active on the tor-dev mailing
> list. [1][2][3][4][5] Cool :)
> 
> I see komlo recommended [6] and that you added [7] a reference to your
> project on the wiki page [8]. Also cool!
> 
> The maaaaaany email lists Tor has can be overwhelming, so I wanted to
> point you to yet another email list: tor-relays [9]. This is one of the
> main ways the relay-operators Tor "subcommunity" stays in touch.
> 
> There's also the #tor-relays channel on IRC - another major
> communication medium for relay operators.
> 
> Info about Tor's various IRC channels can be seen on the Contact page.
> [10]
> 
> Finally, I'm cc'ing Phoul (Colin Childs) on this email. (He's a member
> on the community team, so would probably see this thread, but a cc
> can't hurt!)
> 
> Phoul is Tor's Relay Advocate - whose very role it is to foster and
> support the relay-operator community! He wrote an intro on the Tor blog
> last year that you may want to check out. [11]
> 
> I'm not on IRC much presently, but I'd suggest you try to reach out to
> him either there, on the tor-relays email list, or privately via email
> if you prefer.
> 
> Back when I was more active, there were even IRC meetings for relay
> operators - those may still be going on. I'm sure Phoul could chime in
> there :).
> 
> Also feel free also to contribute to this email list
> (tor-community-team), but note that this team is focused on the Tor
> community at large - not just the relay-operators "subcommunity" - so
> conversations on this list are typically broader in nature.
> 
> Thanks, and once again: welcome!
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> ([1-4] are unlinked threads of the same conversation)
> [1]
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2019-March/013756.html
> [2]
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2019-March/013760.html
> [3]
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2019-April/013763.html
> [4]
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2019-April/013765.html
> 
> (new conversation about VMs:)
> [5]
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2019-April/013770.html
> 
> ([6-8] about wiki page)
> [6]
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2019-March/013757.html
> [7]
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2019-March/013758.html
> [8]
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/community/relay_infrastructure
> 
> [9] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
> [10] https://www.torproject.org/contact/
> 
> [11]
> https://blog.torproject.org/get-help-running-your-relay-our-new-advocate
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Oops... now *actually* cc'ing Phoul
(Sorry everyone for the second email!)