Today we reviewed the UX Team’s roadmap for Q4 2021, shared an update about the ongoing VPN user survey, and discussed Joydeep’s monthly status report among other things.

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== Monthly User Experience Team Meeting ==

Open IRC meetings happen monthly on the first Tuesday of the month at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC.

The next meeting will be held on Tuesday November 2nd at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC.

Here are the minutes from our most recent meetings:

October 12th:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-10-12-13.59.log.html

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Tuesday October 12th 14:00 UTC
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== What projects are we working on? ==

S9 - Usability and Community Intervention on Support for Democracy and Human Rights

https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=Sponsor%209&label_name[]=UX

S30 - Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship

https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=Sponsor%2030&label_name[]=UX

S96 – Rapid Expansion of Access to the Uncensored Internet through Tor in China, Hong Kong, & Tibet

https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24

~~S103 – Collaborative ResistancE to Web Surveillance (CREWS)~~

~~https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=Sponsor%20103~~

== Announcements ==

* Tor Browser 10.5.8 Release: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1058

* Tor Browser 10.5.9 Release (Android only): https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1059

* Tor Browser Alpha 11.0a8 Release (Android only): https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-110a8

2. Quick update on the VPN survey (nah):

https://survey.torproject.org/index.php/664393

3. Review and prioritize UX issues on the torproject.org website:

http://eweiibe6tdjsdprb4px6rqrzzcsi22m4koia44kc5pcjr7nec2rlxyad.onion/tpo/web/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&state=opened&label_name[]=UX

Some issues need definition. If they are not importent then let's keep them in the icebox or close the tickets.

^ Please let duncan/donuts know if you added this item :)

4. Joydeep's Monthly Status Report – September 2021 (joydeep):

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2021-October/003193.html

- Do we have anything we want to share about our own experience?

== Open Call for User Research ==

Understanding your use of Tor and VPNs: https://survey.torproject.org/index.php/664393

Find out how to contribute to the UX team: https://community.torproject.org/user-research/how-to-volunteer/

Thanks everyone!

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Duncan Larsen-Russell
Product Manager & UX Team Lead

duncan@torproject.org