Hello,

Our next global south meeting is:

May 7th, 1600 UTC in #tor-south, irc.oftc.net

If you need help to enter in IRC, please read this wiki page:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/onboarding/IRC

You can find the last meeting notes here[1].

Cheers, Gus

[1] Global South meeting - April 2019

Agenda ----------

* Updates * Next Tor ideas for Global South * Next Global South Meeting

Updates ------------

1. IFF updates: https://blog.torproject.org/events/internet-freedom-festival-valencia - emmapeel met new translators, for arabic and farsi i am hopeful! also russian and ukrainian - Help our friend Dhyta health treatment campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/f/dhyta039s-recovery - IFF was good, latam meetup was great and very interesting understanding the new challenges but we didn't manage to move our effort and objective out of the first 'temporada' as someone said, we need a new trusted list for redlatam, the TOR global south meetup was great too, we started in eng and we finished hablando español, most of the obj are in progress and we allow local communities to empower themselves in order to amplify the effect to other local communities - Outreach materials: people liked the new outreach materials but the translators want to change the stories a lot.. i think i will need a process to give back their new stories! for example, a Russian translator said that the story about having a clandestine website with abortion information because you protect from the government makes not much sense on the Russian context, but he pointer out that if instead of feminist for abortion she was an LGBT dating site then it was OK - In Las Tormentas people reviewed Tor Browser Manual https://twitter.com/aniphao/status/1114168633058635776 that is the tor browser manual, and various groups reviewed it highlighting words that need context, metaphors literally translated that doesn't make sense in spanish

2. Few days before IFF anandaz and gwolf hosted TICS (https://tics.site), with 2 nice presentations about Tor in Mexico and specifically; Civil Forensic on Removing Roadblocks to the Growth Tor Network from Latin American and Distributed Detection of Tor Directory Authorities Censorship in Mexico

3. Tor meetup on hackvlc, notes can be found here: http://ea5faa5po25cf7fb.onion/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/ValenciaMeetupM...

4. New main website: two weeks ago tor project launched the new main website https://www.torproject.org with a very old demand from global south: with translations! So, if you don't see your language available in the dropdown menu, you can help translate the new portal. you can ping emmapeel ! arthuredelstein made the stats already: https://torpat.ch/tpo-locales We need more translators and reviewers. let me know if you spot any errors etc. next languages to be released can be previewed at https://lektor-staging.torproject.org/tpo/staging/

5. Tor Project is going to visit Colombia at the end of this month. We're also attending FLISOL Bogotá: https://blog.torproject.org/events/flisol-bogota

6. egypcio: so, I am still in Fortaleza (Brazil) getting together with people to share more what Tor *really* is; I had few informal coffee breaks with many and could talk about it - and projects that use it - a lot! I also held 2 talks [long ones, about 3 hours each] during the very first CryptoParty in this area (CriptoBaião, https://twitter.com/criptobaiao); slides are up to date and merged with the last talk from yesterday at the Universidade Federal do Ceara (UFC) https://github.com/egypcio/criptobaiao. what about the public? it's super diverse! really, I am still 'in the field' meeting college students and ciberactivists, also people connected to CSIRT and professors, plus journalists and private initiative (always asking if they can run relays, or host and help ideas/project like SecureDrop or GlobaLeaks) - during the talks I did explain 'bout the tools (slides on github are in portuguese, btw). one of the faculties here at the Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) asked if someone from Tor would be available for a remote meeting during 26~29/abr, as they are organizing an event to talk about privacy on the internet - they would also like to talk about how the media distorces the image of how games influencing the violence in big cities and how it's connected to people wanting to be anonymous on the net.

7. In May 3 and 4 CryptoRave happens in Sao Paulo, Brazil - https://cryptorave.org

Source: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/global-south/2019-April/000239.html