Hello!

Today's meeting features Babatunde Okunoye, our 2020 OTF ICFP, who has been researching the use of circumvention tools during African countries' information controls. Thanks for joining us today, Tunde!

Open IRC meetings happen monthly every first Tuesday of the month 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC.

Next meeting is on* Tuesday, October 6th 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC.*

Here are the minutes for the meeting of September 1st: Log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-09-01-13.59.log....

Here are the minutes for the meeting of August 4th: Log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-08-04-13.58.log....

Here are the minutes for the meeting of July 2nd: Log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-07-07-13.59.log....

Pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/1D8sK8Zy74b_0qclC97I-ux-team-monthly-2020-keep

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== 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%... []=Sponsor%209&label_name[]=UX

S30 - Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship

- https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%... []=Sponsor%2030&label_name[]=UX

S58 - Tor Browser Security, Performance, & Usability Improvements

- https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%... []=Sponsor%2058&label_name[]=UX

S84 - Onion Guides

- https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%... []=Sponsor%2084

== Announcements ==

* Tor Browser 9.5.4 Release

- https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-954 - https://torproject.org/download/

* OONI Probe 2.5 Release

- Desktop > https://ooni.org/install/desktop - Mobile > https://ooni.org/install/mobile

== Agenda ==

- Tor Metrics user research - metrics.torproject.org

- https://tools.simplysecure.org/survey/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=39865...

- Tor Demos when September ends

- https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-monthly-hall-demos-august-september-2020-keep

- ICFP final report: "Understanding the use of tools during Internet censorship in Africa: Cameroon, Nigeria, Uganda and Zimbabwe as case studies" with Tunde

- Open floor

== Open Calls == For Design & User Research ==

*Usage of Tor Bridges* We'll be interviewing users to collect feedback about Tor Bridges Usage. If you are interested in participating with your community as an interviewee or researcher, please ping me directly: antonela@torproject.org. My keys https://www.torproject.org/static/keys/antonela.txt

Thanks, A