[community] Tor Community Vision Brainstorm

kat kat at torproject.org
Fri Feb 15 16:48:55 UTC 2019


On Fri, 15 Feb 2019, Pili Guerra wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Sorry this is a bit late, but I just wanted to follow up on the Vision
> exercise that we ran on Monday with a quick recap.

Hi Pili,

Thanks for this, and thanks for leading the exercise!

> First of all we went through the reason we need a Community team at
> Tor. This is some of what we came up with:
>
> - To present a human face to our technology so that non-technical
> people and communities feel welcome and empowered to use Tor.  - To
> maintain a healthy community of volunteers and relay operators to
> support users in accomplishing their goals of preserving their privacy
> and anonymity online, not to acquire more users in order to further
> our own existence.  - To encourage people to join our community and do
> their own outreach to help us normalise the use of Tor and achieve
> wider acceptance. This is a positive feedback loop which in turn helps
> the whole community of Tor users obtain crowd anonymity.  - To act as
> a bridge between the UX team and Technical teams to reach out to end
> users and let them know that we exist as well as ensuring that we are
> meeting their needs as well and offering the right resources to them.
>
> Next we shared some challenges that we have, the idea behind this
> being that if we are aware of our challenges, they can inform what we
> want to overcome and where we want to be in future.
>
> - We feel that there is a lack of funding for the community team to
> hire key staff such as a dedicated support person, volunteer
> coordinator and tech writer as well as attending a more diverse set of
> conferences to widen our community and in particular our number of
> relay operators.

One thing that I hear loud and clear that is not captured here is that
we need funding for a full-time team lead.

  -Kat

> - We also feel that we struggle to keep volunteer
> engagement and long term retention and that we could benefit from the
> relay advocate role model for volunteers. 
>
>- We would like to have
> more non-technical people embrace Tor in the same way that they
> embraced the internet and to engage young people but understand that
> this can be challenging to approach from educational institutions as
> this can help them evade firewalls and web filters set up in these
> institutions.

> - We would like more human rights defender
> organisations in the global south to understand the difference between
> a VPN and Tor and embrace the protections that Tor can bring, both to
> their work and lives, instead of being wary and scared of it.
>
> I have paraphrased slightly and combined what was shared, so feel free
> to correct any details and help me keep refining these points.
>
> You can find the full meeting log here:
> http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-meeting.2019-02-11-15.59.log.html
> <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-meeting.2019-02-11-15.59.log.html>
>
> Feel free to continue the discussion here and come up with any others
> that we can add to this list! We’ll have another follow up session
> during the next Community Team meeting (2/25) to finish off this
> exercise.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Pili — Project Manager: Tor Browser, UX and Community teams pili at
> torproject dot org gpg 3E7F A89E 2459 B6CC A62F 56B8 C6CB 772E F096
> 9C45
>
> On Tuesday, Feb 05, 2019 at 5:49 PM, Pili Guerra <pili at torproject.org
> <mailto:pili at torproject.org>> wrote: Hi Team,
>
> Let’s do a brainstorm next week about where we see the Tor Community
> and the Tor Community Team going and where we want to be in the near
> future. This will help us both to prioritise our work and decide on
> the best funding opportunities for us.
>
> I propose that we do this during next week’s Community Team meeting
> (Monday 11th February @ 16:00 UTC) after everyone is done with their
> updates. I hope you will all be able to attend.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Pili — Project Manager: Tor Browser, UX and Community teams pili at
> torproject dot org gpg 3E7F A89E 2459 B6CC A62F 56B8 C6CB 772E F096
> 9C45
>
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