# Community Team monthly report - October 2022

## Localization

Emmapeel is working on the migration from the translation service Transifex to Weblate. However, because some translation-sponsored work is ongoing, some projects will still be translated on Transifex until the end of the sponsor contract.

You can find the Weblate migration issues in Gitlab: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/l10n/-/issues/?label_name%5B%5D=Weblate%20Migration.

Translations stats (October 2022): - new strings translated: 13959 - strings reviewed: 8944 - edited strings: 16362

## User support and documentation

In October, the Community team dedicated a lot of time and resources on helping users from Iran and providing user feedback to the Anti-censorship Team. The main issue was snowflake block in Iran: - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/96 - https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/131 - https://github.com/guardianproject/orbot/issues/742

And as part of Sponsor96, we suggested a small change on Circumvention map API for China and Hong Kong Tor Browser users: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/99.

Frontdesk (email) - Tickets: open: 50, resolved: 766. Telegram and Signal Support channel (cdr.link) - Tickets resolved: 1475.

For in depth report about Tor user support, please read Nina and Joydeep monthly reports: - https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-project-joydeeps-monthly-status-report-fo... - https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-project-ninas-monthly-status-report-for-o...

Tor Browser manual got two new documentation resources:

1. How to use @GetBridgesBot on Telegram: https://tb-manual.torproject.org/bridges. 2. How to get help from the Tor Project: https://tb-manual.torproject.org/support.

## Onion Services

For Sponsor123, Rhatto and Raya worked on deploying new onion services and landing pages.

Number of Onion Services deployed: 18 (deployment initiated on October but finished only on early November). Number of Onionlaunchpad deployed: 5 landing pages with 2 mirrors each.

Read more about the Onion Services deployment on Rhatto's monthly report: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2022-November/003492.html.

For the 2023, Rhatto started the planning and discussion with the Onion Plan: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onion-support/-/wikis/Documentation/OnionPlan.

## Relay operators community

This month we kicked-off a new sponsored project with the Network Health team: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/44#tab-issues.

The main goal is to improve the network health, by building a trusted operator community and combating malicious relays. The coordination of this work is happening during the Network Health weekly meetings on IRC (#tor-meeting), every Monday at 1600 UTC.

Because of all the protests in Iran, we saw a massive increase in the network size of snowflake proxies. Although more snowflake standalone proxies are still needed, in October, we reached a peak of more than 110k snowflake proxies. As part of our outreach campaign, you can download and print your own Snowflake stickers: https://community.torproject.org/static/images/outreach/print/stickers/snowflake/.

After a long break, relay operators and the Tor Project met in October during the Tor Relay Operator Meetup. Meetup notes: https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-relays-invitation-join-us-tor-relay-operator-meetup-october-22-2022-1900-utc/5106/6.

SR2 Communications wrote a blog post about running Dynamic Tor bridges to help users in censored regions to bypass censorship. Read more: https://www.sr2.uk/blog/2022/dynamic-bridges/.

## Trainings and meetups with HRDs

As part of the user feedback cycle and digital security training program from Sponsor30, the UX and Community teams are planning Tor trainings in person in the first and second quarter of 2023 (Brasil, Ecuador and Mexico). This plan should be ready at December.

We also planned some online Tor trainings for November with local partners in Mexico.

## Outreach

- Emmapeel and Joydeep did a AMA with EngageMedia and translators from South East Asia. - This month Raya and Nina worked on Tor materials for keeping users connected during the elections in Kazakhstan #KeepItOn: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onion-support/-/issues/155. - Tor Localization hangout with emmapeel and translators. - Raya talked about Onion Services and censorship resistance at EBU's Media Cybersecurity Seminar: https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1582763907520733184. - Giorgio Maone talked about Tor at Linux Day 2022 in Palermo, Italy https://twitter.com/ma1/status/1583876964233801729. - Cooper from EFF wrote an article about Snowflake: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/10/snowflake-makes-it-easy-anyone-fight-censorship. - Isabela attended Wired Next Fest 2022 (Italia) https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1578760916773982208. - Many articles on press about Tor Snowflake (in German): https://netzpolitik.org/2022/irgendwas-mit-internet-foerdert-endlich-anti-zensur-tools/ https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Internetsperren-im-Iran-So-leisten-Sie-mit-Snowflake-Unterstuetzung-7281703.html

### Coming up next

- November 18th - Tor Localization Hangout https://blog.torproject.org/event/2022-11-18-l10n-hangout/ - November 19th @ 19 UTC - Tor Relay Operator Meetup: https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-relays-next-tor-relay-operator-november-19th-at-19-00-utc/5544 - November 29th - Run Snowflake Proxies and Strengthen Internet Freedom (Workshop) https://www.digitalrights.community/blog/vpn-village-2022 - (December) (invite only) Tor Meetup with digital security trainers and human rights defenders in Latin America - (December) (invite only) Tor Meetup with digital security trainers and human rights defenders in East Africa