Hello,

Thanks everyone who made it to today's UX team monthly meeting! We're looking forward to seeing you all again in December.

Here are the minutes:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-11-09-13.59.log.... http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-11-09-13.59.log.html

Today we discussed the Tor Browser 11 release – which is now rolling out, the new brand designer position we’re recruiting for, the upcoming State of the Onion, Championquizzer’s status report for October, and lastly our upcoming research on censorship circumvention in Tor Browser scheduled for later in the month.

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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 December 7th at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC.

Here are the minutes from our most recent meetings:

Novemebr 9th: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-11-09-13.59.log.... http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-11-09-13.59.log.html

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

September 7th: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-09-07-14.00.log.... http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-09-07-14.00.log.html

-------------------------- Tuesday November 9th 14:00 UTC --------------------------

== 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%... https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=Sponsor%209&label_name%5B%5D=UX

S30 - Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship

https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%... https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=Sponsor%2030&label_name%5B%5D=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 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24

S101 - Tor VPN Client for Android

https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/32 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/32

S103 – Collaborative ResistancE to Web Surveillance (CREWS)

https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%... https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=Sponsor%20103

== Announcements ==

* Tor Browser 11.0 Release: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser- https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-011-0 https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0

* Tor Browser 11.0a10 Release (desktop only): https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-110a https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-110a1010 https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-110a10

== Agenda ==

1. Tor Browser 11 Release:

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0 https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0

2. Brand designer job recruitment:

https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/brand-designer/ https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/brand-designer/

3. State of the Onion planning

4. Championquizzer's Status Report for October 2021:

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2021-November/003218.html https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2021-November/003218.html

5. Upcoming research on censorship circumvention in Tor Browser (Nov 22–23)

== Open Call for User Research ==

Find out how to contribute to the UX team:

https://community.torproject.org/user-research/how-to-volunteer/ 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 mailto:duncan@torproject.org