Notes for Apr 11 2019 meeting:
Roger: 0) I had a good meeting with phw last week, to get him going on the new anti-censorship team. 1) Need some Apple contacts? For making webkit adhere to Tor Browser guidelines, or for helping get rid of the fake Tor Browsers on the app store? [I think we do, at least if we have them we should give to guardian project and mike tigas -isabela] 2) I keep encountering threat intelligence CTOs who admit that their company's marketing team is misleading people about "the dark web" and how it relates to Tor. It seems to me that we should be able to align the incentives from the marketing teams better: all it takes would be one of them realizing that they can differentiate themselves by pointing out that "all the *other* ones are misleading you". Next possible steps include doing a joint blog post with one company that wants to, and/or doing a talk to an NYC-based threat intelligence company. 3) May 1 is the deadline for mainline Defcon talks. I am pondering submitting one -- a retrospective of some sort maybe. A brainstorming session seems smart.
Gaba: 1) follow up on sponsor 13 reporting. 2) worked over a summary from ideas for funding for grants strategy meeting. 3) looked at capacity for network team for the year. 4) follow up on tor-scalability (will open mailing list today) 5) started weekly syncs with phw
Georg: 1) Work on Tor Browser 8.5 2) Helping OTF with proposal review and recommendations 3) Dealing with HackerOne bug bounties and additional HackerOne help with out bug bounty program
Nick: 1) team continues to be somewhat strained for resources, but great work is still getting done. 2) I'll be off from next wednesday through the following monday (17th through 22nd), though I could be available for meetings if really needed and we schedule in advance.
Pili: 1) Sponsor 27 organisation 2) Google Season of Docs - started filling out application form - working on fleshing out projects - blog post - recruiting mentors 3) New Website Launch Retrospective 4) Working on funding ideas for teams
Alison: 1) Refining LFI curriculum 2) Making the public announcement about the new cohort soon 3) Still redesigning the website 4) Writing a piece on facial recognition for ALA Choose Privacy Week 5) Gus is traveling; we will go to Mexico together in May
Steph: 1) Helped with irl’s and juga’s blog posts 2) Responded to inquiry about CIPA 3) Will be presenting at a cryptocurrency gathering (post Ethereal Summit) doubling as a Tor fundraiser in NYC may 15. Gman will join me. 4) def con prep 5) Talking with a librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library about possibly running a workshop or talk
isabela: 1) I have been sick this week so I am behind on some things. 2) Catch up to do list, emails and meetings. 3) Plan on start inviting people on 'waiting list' of dev meeting invite list. 4) Plan to meet w/ Alison to kick off the process to organize the schedule for the dev meeting. 5) Work on Sida phase3 plan and review proposal for general ops fund
Sarah: 1) More admin to finish up state registrations. 2) Sending out new welcome email to new email list subscribers. We are now up to 45,424 people on the main email list. 3) Al submitted proposals for general operating funds from the CS Fund and funds for ESR migration from Open Source Center. 4) Researching Handshake details 5) Postal letter to lapsed major donors and small foundations went out last week.
Sue: 1) General Accounting processes
Erin: 1) General HR stuff
Karsten: 1) Decide how to proceed with TorDNSEL replacement: a) our hope to upgrade the Haskell code from 7.6 to 8.0 did not work out; b) the rewrite is at least a few weeks away if we want it to work properly; c) the metrics team might take ownership of the oldstable VM from the admins, but running machines is not what we're good at; d) we could let it die and put up the replacement once we have it, even though that will make at lot of people sad; e) we get an extension for the shutdown as long as we make progress (Brexit style); f) do a quick-and-dirty thing (maybe exitmap + stem + some duct tape, possibly leaving out the DNS server at the beginning) that keeps working until we have the proper rewrite in place.
Antonela: 1) Coordinating user research in Colombia with Nah and Gus 2) Reviewing Caroline's report for Q1 user research 3) Preparing outreach material in Spanish to print for Colombia 4) website tickets triage, working on /download 5) S27 meeting, starting with O2A1 6) Following up with IFF people 7) Working on TB8.5 release 8) Working on OONI Explorer ux issues with Arturo 9) Reviewing community.torproject.org 10) Reviewed research.torproject.org with irl
Mike: 1) Trying to organize next tor-scalability meeting 2) network team development 3) @steph: vanguards should be in the next debian/stable and debian backports; I would like to do a blogpost and tweet when that happens. Not sure if it will happen this week or next yet. [great, lmk when you've got a draft -steph]