[community] TOR101

[gus]

Hi Jason,

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 10:29:09AM +0000, J.S. Evans wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> My name is Jason and I am a training engineer for an open-source software company.

Welcome! :)

> 
> I have been lurking around the Tor community mailing lists and /r/Tor and /r/onions subreddits for the past few months answering newbie questions. I have also blogged a bit about my experiences with Tor. I would like to take the next step and write a free Intro to TOR online course. The way that I normally build a training course is by producing a slide deck and exercise book and then recording everything as a series of videos. If the student wants to try it for themselves, they can use exercise book to follow along on their own PCs. The course would be produced under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
> 

In Community team we have been working on the training slides and
they're more or less ready. Our plan is to release it with the new
community portal.

> This course could be used for onboarding new volunteers or just raising the knowledge level of the general public. Having spent time helping on Reddit, I see lots of people who come there looking for info on "The Dark Web" (a term that I dislike). They have no idea what Tor is except from some clickbait article or YouTube video that makes it sound dangerous and edgy.
> 

Yep! The "deep web" narrative, that is used to scare people from using a
secure web browser.

> Here is the outline that I have now:
> 
> Section 1: Introduction to the Tor Browser
> What is Tor?
> What is the Tor Browser?
> Exercise: Download the Tor Browser
> How do I use Tor on Android?
> 

Cool! We have this done. I'll share with you in private.

> Section 2: Introduction to the Tor Service (Linux)
> Tor Application
> Torrc
> Exercise: Review Torrc
> What is an Onion Service?
> Exercise: Create Web Service
> Exercise: Create SSH Service
> 

I was thinking to create one about onion services only. So we could use it
as "how to decentralize the web". You could start with this one :)

> Section 3: Introduction to Relays (Linux)
> What is a Relay?
> Middle Nodes and Guard Nodes
> Exercise: Setting up a new middle node
> Exit Nodes
> Bridges
> Exercise: Setting up a new bridge

This is almost done (the tor network), we need a better design and images :)

About the video recording. Tor already made some videos class in the
past, but the problem is that it gets outdated really fast:

https://media.torproject.org/video/TBBTraining/

> 
> Input is always appreciated!
> 
> Best Regards,
> Jason

best,
Gus
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