[tor-reports] OONI team status report for May 2016

[Arturo Filastò]

# What we did in May 2016

## Release of web_connectivity test and a new version of ooniprobe including it

https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/pull/514
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/ooni-dev/2016-June/000433.html
https://ooni.torproject.org/post/web-connectivity/

## Release of the alpha version of the raspberry pi image

https://github.com/TheTorProject/lepidopter/pull/29
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/ooni-dev/2016-May/000430.html

## Informed Consent Documentation

1. Risks: Things you should know before using OONI: https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-spec/blob/master/informed-consent/risks.md
(relevant pull request: https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-spec/pull/58 )

2. OONI Data Policy: https://ooni.torproject.org/data-policy/
(relevant pull request: https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-spec/pull/57 )

3. OONI Informed Consent Form: https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-spec/pull/62

4. OONI test descriptions (what does each OONI test do): https://ooni.torproject.org//nettest/
(https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-spec/tree/master/test-descriptions )

## Partnership Program Structure

1. OONI Partnership Program (general description): https://github.com/agrabeli/ooni-spec/blob/ooni-partnerships/ooni-partnerships/ooni-partnership-program.md
(relevant pull request: https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-spec/pull/60 )

2. Questionnaire for partners (pdf version)

3. Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for partners (pdf version)

4. Formed 3 partnerships

## Blog posts

1. OONI Data Reveals How WhatsApp Was Blocked (Again) in Brazil: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/brazil-whatsapp-block/
(Portuguese translation: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/brazil-whatsapp-block-pt/ )

2. How Uganda blocked social media, again: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/uganda-social-media-blocked/

3. The Tor Project is Hiring a Developer for OONI: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-project-hiring-developer-ooni

## Research paper

We co-wrote a research paper with ICLab, which compares their network measurement methodology with that of OONI's.

# What we plan to do in June 2016

Some of the major things we are going to be working on during the course of June include:

* Add support for HTTPS and cloudfronted collectors
https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/issues/530

* Add failover bridge support in ooni-probe
https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/issues/538

*  Implement web_connectivity test in measurement-kit
https://github.com/measurement-kit/measurement-kit/issues/682

* Deploy HTTPS and cloudfronted backend collector, bouncer and test helper
https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-sysadmin/milestones/Deployment%20of%20the%20HTTPS/Cloudfronted%20collector,%20bouncer%20and%20web_connectivity%20test%20helper

* Create documentation on how to contribute to test lists
https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-web/pull/56

* Create/Review test lists (for partner countries)
https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/51
https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/53
https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/54
https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/56

* Blog on the release of the web_connectivity test: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/web-connectivity/

~ The OONI team

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