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https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-April/000223.html

Notes for May 26 2016 meeting:

Georg: 1) Tor Browser 6.0 is ready for QA. Planned release day is May 30. 2) I worked on our search engine problem. Disconnect switched the fallback to DuckDuckGo. 3) I reviewed 2 papers

Nick: 1) Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha is almost out. Which TorBrowser will get it? 2) Talked with some folks and Isabela about doing an audit on the Tor code. (Roger set this up; I think an existing funder would be paying?) Seems promising so far. 3) Had meeting with Isabela and team. Productive but team feels stretched. IMO we need: * A sense that everybody is doing their fair share * Nearly all people to be contractually 'allowed' to work on nearly all things. * To track non-coding tasks as well a coding tasks when planning time and allocating people * A better sense of how much volunteers would like to commit, and a way for us to be able to ask the paid people before the volunteers. We have planned to: * Get a working code review system * Add review-points to trac * chop 0.2.9 and future releases down to size * improve our workflow. * have another meeting in july

Kate: 1) Rule 41 update —Need to stay with bipartisan talking point: DOJ is trying to get a major policy change enacted with a rule change in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure--DOJ is trying to circumvent Congress. Rep. Poe's office is introducing co-sponsors in two's-- one democrat for each republican. It's going well. 2) CloudFlare update: More allies are joining us; we are planning to track CloudFlare's promises and hold them accountable, probably via an email list. 3) A-Clinic Collaboration - probably not a formal collaboration with this foundation that wants to use onion services to do anonymous health surveys, etc. A letter describing our involvement is still being negotiated. 4) Recruited volunteers to help with HTML tagging so we can upload more things to the Tor website. 5) Press Kit: Volunteer David Stanton is working on user stories document and I am finishing onion services doc as well as document that describes myths about Tor and explains the realities. 6) US Mission in Uganda held an Internet freedom and human rights Twitter event - we participated (5/26) We received some media coverage about the onion services hackfest, including a nice SlashDot piece - BoingBoing: https://boingboing.net/2016/05/26/tor-project-is-working-on-a-we.html - The Register:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/25/nextgen_tor_to_use_distributed_rng_5... - Softpedia: http://news.softpedia.com/news/tor-to-use-never-seen-before-distributed-rng-... - IBTimes: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tor-develops-its-own-random-number-generator-make-a... - Hackread: https://www.hackread.com/tor-developers-next-gen-onion-service/ - Slashdot: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/05/25/2347238/tor-to-use-distributed-rng-t... - Naked Security: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/05/26/tor-takes-on-the-question-what-i... FBI is being pressured by the judge to release Tor 0-day in Washington State case

Shari: 1) board meeting on Friday; anything you want me to bring up? 2) Monday is a holiday in the U.S. How to handle holidays? 3) Personnel update.

Isabela: 1) Organized retrospective meeting with the network team for the team to have a sense of how things are going and where are the pain points we need to improve. Went pretty good for my first irc retrospective :) 2) Working with Alison on updating the SIDA proposal. 3) Working on possible Mozilla grant - at first with TBB and Nathan because we were thinking of applying for mobile browser - now with Karsten because we probably will apply for metrics instead per Mozilla's feedback. 4) focus on making the release 0.2.9 smaller / pick up DRL work (M&E and F-indicators and extension) are the things for me starting next week

Mike: 1) I'm wrapping up the last thing before I take a vacation: I'm going to help with the Mozilla proposal(s), and then start my vacation, ideally on June 1st.

Karsten: 1) Continued writing a funding proposal for metrics work, together with Isabela and Cass who have been extremely helpful so far. Deadline is May 31st. 2) Just talked to weasel about the virtual machines at one of our hosters basically falling apart. We'll need to migrate them ASAP to a new hoster. Apparently, budget shouldn't be an issue there, because we're freeing up some money by reducing hosting elsewhere, but just in case there's overlap we might be paying a few hundred USD extra. -- Asked Shari for ~200 USD/mo, which she approved.

Alison: 1) social contract draft is with Lunar and Matt for one more review before Vegas leads 2) the community council is writing our guidelines -- still in its very early stages 3) sent another update of the membership doc to this team for review - -- next it'll go to tor-internal@ 4) reworking SIDA proposal with Isa 5) OTF concept note for building community capacity within Torservers was invited for a full proposal! 6) Cloudflare meeting (Mike will probably update) 7) support team met yesterday. we hope to integrate this team more into the community team. phoul has done major updates to the support docs and we're now working on plans for distribution and translation and maintenance.