[tor-reports] Lunar's report for June 2014

[Lunar]

Hi!

Here's what kept Lunar busy working on Tor in June 2014:

Help desk
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Handled 223 tickets in English, 18 tickets in French and sorted
around 96 spams.

Sent the Tor help desk report for May.

Reviewed the “stats” part of the support team web application that Sherief
has been busy writing [1].

Started using the webchat, and reported a few improvements that need to
be made [2,3].

Collected some stories involving the newly deployed webchat based
support system for the Sponsor O report.

   [1]: https://bugs.torproject.org/11309
   [2]: https://bugs.torproject.org/12210
   [3]: https://bugs.torproject.org/12236

Tor Weekly News
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Participate in writing the 48th, 49th, 50th, and 51st issues of Tor
Weekly News. Been the editor for 48th, and 51st.

The tor-news mailing list has 1429 subscribers as of today.

Debian packages
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Uploaded txtorcon/0.10.0-1 to Debian unstable.

Misc.
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Wrote a draft report describing May activity to be sent to
SponsorF.

Switched to a new GnuPG long term identity key with subkeys on
smartcard.

Attended Backbone 409 [4].

Merged more translations of the “Tor and HTTPS” visualization [5].

Worked with Nos Oignons to print a 1000 posters [6] based on the
“Tor and HTTPS” visualization [7].

Got interviewed to publicize my future presentation at LSM2014 [8].

Attended Pas Sage En Seine 2014 [9], a growing French hacker
conference in Paris. Tor was mentioned in every other talk. Quite a
difference from two years ago. With other volunteers from Nos Oignons,
we distributed posters and got some donations. People were generally
interested.

Attended La foire à l'autogestion 2014 [10] for one day. It's a meeting
of many DIY and self managed projects, be them around school, software,
work coops, art, housing, etc. I had the opportunity to dispell the “Tor
is US military” myth a few times. I distributed Nos Oignons' posters
to people curious about how Tor worked. The main highlight of the day
was an hour long series of question from a young human who dried me in
the end. The final drop happened when they've asked: “… but if it's
easy to get the source, some one bad could make a bad version of it. How
do I know you did make the software I get?” I gave them my OpenPGP
fingerprint and told them it would be useful if they would learn about
“cryptographic signatures” but that I would not going to explain that
know. Impressive person! I hope they'll learn more about programming and
become part of our larger community in the future…

   [4]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-June/000568.html
   [5]: http://www.passageenseine.org/Passage/PSES-2014
   [6]: https://people.torproject.org/~lunar/tor-and-https/
   [7]: https://nos-oignons.net/Actualit%C3%A9s/20140623_rapports_affiches_et_conferences/index.en.html
   [8]: https://2014.rmll.info/+Interview-de-Lunar-Defis-passes-et+?lang=en
   [9]: http://www.foire-autogestion.org/-Foire-2014-

What’s in for July?
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Summer dev. meeting, booth at LSM2014 [11], talk at LSM2014 [12],
SponsorF and SponsorO reporting, help desk work, documentation work,
more outreach work, and Tor Weekly News…

  [10]: https://2014.rmll.info/Participants?lang=en
  [11]: https://2014.rmll.info/conference311?lang=en

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Lunar                                             <lunar at torproject.org>
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