Notes for January 25 2018 meeting:
Alison: 1) Code of conduct discussion is progressing well! I hope we can begin voting sometime next week. 2) Coordinating guest lecturers for LFI. 3) Giving a talk at Georgetown this Friday. 4) Tor Meeting stuff. Will send out an email about the open days to the meeting list soon. 5) Who is submitting talks for the HOPE CFP? We should have a coordinating meeting.
Georg: 1) Tor Browser 7.5 is out! I am happy with it so far and have been especially happy about the good work we did with the UX-team.
Karsten: 1) We'd like to get support with proofreading and editing documentation for Sponsor 13. Very rough estimate is 50,000 words for 30 specifications for reproducing Tor Metrics graphs or tables with 1,000 words each on average and 1 technical report of 20,000 words. Should we contract this out to somebody, ask a friendly Tor person whose first language is English to do this for us, or just do our best at writing? [Answer: Start by asking Tommy, and consider contracting this to somebody else later in the process.] 2) Made a very first step forward towards writing documentation for Sponsor 13. 3) CollecTor module to sanitize Tor web server logs almost complete. Last tests are running, might get this done by end of this month. 4) Can I create EC2 accounts for iwakeh and irl to do resource-intensive metrics tasks? We once had a that Tor employees/contractors could have such accounts as long as they keep their usage below 30$/month. But that policy is 2.5 years old and predates Shari's time at Tor. Is it still a good policy? [Answer: yes, do it if it's appropriate and really that cheap.]
Nick: 1) Putting out an alpha today; another alpha to follow in 5-14 days. 2) Deferring more stable releases until we can get dgoulet's #24902 anti-dos code tested in an alpha. 3) Meeting with Mozilla folks on Monday/Tuesday to brain-dump about Tor internals. Probably will have limited net presence. 4) Scrambling to get 0.3.3.x freeze period to go well.
Mike: 1) Continuing work on guard discovery defenses.
Arturo: 1) We are releasing a new version of the OONI Probe app, that definitively changes the name from ooniprobe to OONI Probe 2) Made a lot of progress in terms of implementing the revamped OONI Explorer 3) We have established a new partnership with Tuwindi Foundation (Mali), see: https://twitter.com/OpenObservatory/status/956167750874992645 4) Migrating our database and improving the latency of OONI Explorer and API is moving forward well 5) Thanks to the localisation lab and many community members some new strings for OONI Probe have been translated to 10 languages. 6) We will be hosting a OONI workshop in Kampala (Uganda), we have been preparing the training material and correcting assignments for the course 7) Several test lists (NG, UG, SS) have been updated thanks to URLs provided by community members