[tor-reports] Andrew's August 2014 Monthly Report

[Andrew Lewman]

# Andrew's August 2014

## In general

 - Guardian interview with vast reach, many sites carried the interview.
Story is here,
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/21/tor-aphex-twin-taylor-swift
 - BBC interview with vast reach, many sites carried the interview.
Story is here, http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28889714
 - Continuing conversations with two telco/ISPs about deploying
Tor-certified devices to tens of millions of customers.
 - Helped kick off a new grant to fund pluggable transports, better Tor
testing, and better outreach to the community.
 - Started process to migrate blog to something modern. Details at
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10022.
 - Had dinner with a billionaire and his assistant. Talked about
donation motivation, non-profits, and future possibilities.

## Press

Tor Project's struggle to keep the dark net in the shadows
​http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28886465
by Leo Kelion on August 21, 2014

Iran's Internet Users Outsmart Government in Cat-and-Mouse Censorship Game
​
https://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/08/12/irans-internet-users-outsmart-government-in-cat-and-mouse-censorship-game/
by Global Voices on August 12, 2014


## Details

August 27

    interview outsourced accounting company
    schedule meeting with taiwan engineering crew
    apply security updates to all systems
    reference check on accounting candidate
    our blog may be remotely exploitable, start discussion on upgrade or
migrate to 3rd party
    have lawyers review NDA
    complete ticket 12496

August 26

    talk to child abuser hunting org
    answer journalist from mozilla content
    respond to NL question about positive tor usage
    approve payroll
    sign georg's contract
    sign colin contract
    sign 3bis contract
    sign PC contract

August 25

    summarize stalled contract negotiations with contractors
    respond about pets surplus
    talk to roger about employees
    commit wires to contractors
    ask roger about approval of APT timeline
    summarize outstanding contracts and what i'm waiting on before signing
    tor fundraising meeting
    respond to daily dot
    figure out our wire transfers
    figure out contractor's payment situation
    follow up about pets and hotel invoice

August 21

    review lunar's help desk stuff
    interview about outsourced accounting
    help cfo interview candidate 1 for controller
    talk to internews about APT
    talk to sida

August 20

    send argentina press metrics link
    argentina press interview

August 19

    bbc interview
    guardian interview

August 18

    return call to legal services
    letter of recommendation writing/signing
    accept Kelley's resigning, figure out next steps
    meet with communications firm about marketing
    reschedule christian science monitor interview

August 8

    return call to legal services
    finish ticket 12826

August 7

    1:1 with staff
    state kickoff meeting
    push new mirror list live
    figure out why bank thinks AWS is always fraudulent
    schedule lunch with MIT guy

August 6

    respond to german visa request
    talk to second muse about framework

August 5
    add new mirror to list
    write monthly report for july
    finish timesheet for july
    payroll and HR meeting
    work with victim 1

August 4
    get and commit wire confirms from last week
    sweden tv4 interview
    associated press interview
    quartz interview
    sign outstanding 25 checks.

August 3

    hack on bwauth some more to make it happy again
    investigate onionoo issues

August 1

    follow up with lawyer with results of investigation
    figure out donations intern yes/no/job desc/duties
    review contract amounts for q3q4 2014
    read/respond to bitcoin and tor payments proposal
    add proposal latex template for proposal

-- 
Andrew
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