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Metrics meeting notes, 31st October 2019
by Gaba 05 Nov '19

05 Nov '19

** Next meeting: *Thursday*, November 7th, 15 UTC ** Meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-meeting.2019-10-31-15.00.html Agenda Thursday, October 31st, 15 UTC Onionoo deployments (irl) - karsten tries instructions on AWS test instance on Monday. Exit scanner (gaba) - https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/29650 - the intial MVP needs all tickets that are children of #29654 - the next step is #32262, which is the foundation of the scanning mechanism - we may not be able to deploy at the end of December but there will be something to deploy Updating the wiki page for the metrics team https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/MetricsTeam - karsten removes stuff that is now wrong and moves old stuff like roadmaps to subpages. - karsten updates metrics timeline in metrics.tpo now and once more before moving to gitlab. Release announcements, cf. #32142 (karsten) - we include a ticket query for "Release*" tickets in Metrics/* and links to dist.tpo on the team wiki page - gaba checks tickets before the meeting and includes them here for the meeting summary. - karsten writes down steps for releasing metrics-lib and collector, and then we see how we could include those in the *ops documents on help.tpo. Roadmap - how are we doing? (gaba) https://trello.com/b/Mu5fYg53/tor-metrics-roadmap -- Project Manager: Network, Anti-Censorship and Metrics teams gaba at torproject.org she/her are my pronouns GPG Fingerprint EE3F DF5C AD91 643C 21BE 8370 180D B06C 59CA BD19

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Community Council activity summary, July 2019 - September 2019
by Taylor Yu 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

Hi all, Here is a brief summary of the Community Council's activities from July 2019 through September 2019 July 2019 The newly elected Community Council and the 2018 Community Council met in person at the Tor Meeting in Stockholm to transfer knowledge. This went well, and we will try to do an in-person handoff again when future Councils are elected. August 2019 The Council provided some input to the tor-internal membership audit process. September 2019 The Council provided some input to the tor-internal membership audit process. The Council received a complaint about email list moderation. The Council asked the complainant to attempt to resolve this with the list moderators. The list moderators resolved the issue. --- end of summary --- This summary will also be posted on the Council's wiki page. If you have any feedback about this summary format, or any other feedback to the Council, please contact us at tor-community-council(a)lists.torproject.org.

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Notes from Vegas Meeting OCTOBER 31 2019
by Erin Wyatt 01 Nov '19

01 Nov '19

Vegas Team Meeting Notes OCTOBER 31 2019 ++ OLD BUSINESS - Blog temporary resolution: Mike following up but contact out of town - Trademark faq update: Isa working on it; will include how we deal w/ the use of Tor name/logo on swags: https://pad.riseup.net/p/K6yqvdADgN1uk8BVrve9-keep - Isabela writing draft letter to developer who going to fix css on drupal w/ gus - SVN public was archived and internal shutdown, corp needs to migrate to Nextcloud, but we first need to setup nextcloud so this can wait another week (or more) - Re: git admins - still need more; got one new volunteer from browser team V - Status of Feb/Mar dev meeting scheduling? Decision still pending ++ NEW BUSINESS n/a ++ GENERAL NOTES Philipp 1) Will be attending OTF summit in Taipei this week 2) More grant writing for NSF TTP project 3) Released BridgeDB version 0.9.1 (bugfix release) 4) Snowflake progress (finished revised broker/proxy protocol, still working on client/server protocol and "unreliable proxy" issue) 5) Progress on misc. bits and pieces (improved obfs4 docker file and bridgestrap) Sarah 1. EOY campaign - good engagement and return so far! about:tor launches Monday 11/4 2. Making more connections with people in the cryptocurrency world and they are amplifying the campaign and donating items for giveaways 3. OTF proposal 4. Board meeting prep 5. On vacation 11/8-11/15 but will be available via email and signal. Antoine: 1. (about to) launch the new caching service frontend for the blog, hopefully fixing our costs in november (#32239) 2. create a followup ticket and some coordination for the Nextcloud transition (#32267) 3. finally completely retired the jabber server (#31700) 4. finished archival of public SVN (#15949) 5. usual routine (pgp key updates, email aliases, small security audit, website crash, lots of email) Steph 1. EOY Campaign launch: blog post, press release, social media posts across platforms. Planning next posts 2. Newsletter out 3. Submitted and accepted to Hackers Next Door in NYC 4. Working with NYU on a press release about the donated space 5. Talking LFI press with Alison 6. Final stretch of Outreachy application period, several final applications already submitted, reviewing others Gaba 1. Attended Mozfest last week/weekend. 2. Getting up to speed with trac/mail again. 3. Looking at migration from nc.riseup.net to the new nextcloud server. We will eventually stop using storm.torproject.org once nextcloud is official. 4. Talked with MOSS people about performance metrics proposal. Georg 1. Dealing with fallout from Tor Browser 9.0 2. Preparing Tor Browser 9.0.1 and 9.5a2 the driver being our EOY fundraising campaign; due 11/4 and 11/5 3. OTF proposal work Nick 1. Sponsor 31 focus in November. Mike (likely out for some/most of meeting): 1. Figuring out priorities for end of Sponsor2; lots of loose ends piled up last month 2. Still pinging contact re preferred pricing for blog; he is travelling isabela 1. Small dinner party at Wendy's in Boston 2. Reviewing copy for all things related to YE campaign 3. Helping with OTF proposal 4. Preparing for Board meeting on Nov 6th 5. Following up with many things: corporation membership program draft, requests for speaking, donors/sponsors, blog, personnel stuff Pili 1. MozFest last week 2. S27 October report 3. S9 Phase 2 Report 4. S44 Report 5. End of Month/Start of Month roadmapping and admin 6. Browser Proposal 7. AFK tomorrow 1st November for a public holiday here Antonela 1. Traveling to Taipei tomorrow for the OTF summit 2. Working in a participatory design session with OKThanks 3. Reviewed implementation of the end of year campaign across platforms 4. Mapping the ux team work for the rest of the year Matt 1. Tor Browser 9.0 bug fixing 2. OTF Proposal updates 3. Fastly talk preparation Alex: 1. Travled to Zurich and did a talk on Tor. Tomorrow I will give a shorter version of the same talk in DK. 2. Returned to work on s28 tickets. 3. Looks like we are getting applications in for the Shadow Simulation developer position. 4. Gitlab wiki migration work. 5. Collecting status updates for end of month network team status. Erin 1. Shadow dev recruiting 2. Behind on handbook review/clarifications but hope to get to that very soon 3. Personnel stuff Karsten 1) Finished an extension to CollecTor's index.json where we will soon include descriptor types, publication times, and SHA-256 digests. 2) Moved forward with automating Onionoo deployments.

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