Relay Operator Meetup (October 21, 2023 @ 19 UTC)
Tasks
- Put together an agenda with the contribution of other teams and relay op community: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-relay-op-meetup-october-2023-keep
- BBB room - https://tor.meet.coop/gus-og0-x74-dzn
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Publish the meetup invitation where our community hangout:
- tor-relays mailing list
- Mastodon
- r/TOR
- Facilitate the meetup (Saturday, October 21 @ 1900 UTC)
- Send the meetup notes to the tor-relays mailing list
Activity
assigned to @gus
Agenda
- Announcements:
- WebTunnel PT is available on Tor Browser 13
- (Update) Tor on Universities
- Meta-proposal for new policies: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/policies/-/blob/master/001-community-relay-operator-process.md
- [Discussion] Contactinfo proposal
- Add your questions and topics below and we will try to answer all of them
- Announcements:
marked the checklist item Put together an agenda with the contribution of other teams and relay op community: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-relay-op-meetup-october-2023-keep as completed
marked the checklist item BBB room - https://tor.meet.coop/gus-og0-x74-dzn as completed
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raw notes
participants: 42 duration: 1h
Code of Conduct: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/policies/-/blob/master/code_of_conduct.txt Process for new policies and proposals for the Tor relay operator community: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/policies/-/blob/master/001-community-relay-operator-process.md Expectations for Relay Operators: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/team/-/wikis/Expectations-for-Relay-Operators [Expected meeting length 60 to 90 minutes] ## Agenda - Announcements: - (Update) Tor in Turkmenistan: https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-help-turkmens-to-bypass-internet-censorship-run-an-obfs4-bridge/7002 - WebTunnel PT is available on Tor Browser 13: https://forum.torproject.org/t/call-for-testers-webtunnel-a-new-way-to-bypass-censorship-with-tor-browser/9855 - Tor Hackweek (November 6th to November 9th): https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2023-August/003675.html - (Update) Tor on Universities: https://toruniversity.eff.org/ - Meta-proposal for new policies: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/policies/-/blob/master/001-community-relay-operator-process.md - CoC clarification (not just relevant for these relay ops and similar meetings) * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/policies/-/issues/7 - Contactinfo proposal * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/relays/-/issues/71 - 0.4.7.x exit traffic notice * https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2023-October/021357.html - We don't actually know if anybody running an exit on 0.4.7 has seen this drop -- so if you have or have not, let us know! Add your questions and topics below and we will try to answer all of them: - We discussed the impact of more relays per IP address, where the growth in family size has led to huge microdescriptors, which is a problem on iOS because of memory space limitations. In general the network team people have been trying to avoid new relay features in C-Tor, in hopes to wait for Arti relay functionality to be ready and then it will be more fun to add features. One proposal we might want to do in C-Tor before that future arrives is: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/blob/HEAD/proposals/321-happy-families.md - Relay operator meetup at 37C3? (We are thinking of a Tor talk submission to 37C3 too. CFP is open) Leibi: I can organize it. - Would the ContactInfo requirement proposal break existing tooling (nusenu), is the new text field a separate proposal? - Nusenu would need to adapt their tooling, yes; the new text field would be included in the technical spec which we'd would work later on and would land in the torspec repository where all our other changes on the protocol/tor core parts are tracked [GeKo] - Spamcop (or Katie Holly) is sending me lots of e-mails claiming my Tor exit is an open mail proxy. Is this even possible? I am using Nusenu's Ansible role. - Yo, we all get it ;-) forward them to /dev/null - Over the years there have been automated tools that send out "helpful" emails like this. Often they aren't actually based on reality. What they might mean by 'open mail proxy' could be anything. For example, maybe they received some webmail connections. - would the residental bridges for Turkmenistan need to be long-lived? or would it be fine to run one for just a month or two - running an obfs4 bridge for .tm actually only lasts about a week or so these days. that is, you run it, people get told about it, they tell more people, after 3 or 6 or 8 days the wrong person has heard of it and it gets blocked. - Translation of technical documents: In the Tor Project we are adding more and more documentation for translation. But our translators are not experts, and many times they get confused when translating. If you speak languages other than English, we welcome an attentive eye on our translations. Our translations are done in https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/tor/ now. A big documentation is at https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/tor/support-portal/ - https://support.torproject.org - also some relay documentaiton at https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/tor/community-portal/ emmapeel[@]torproject.org / #tor-l10n Tor "State of the Onion" talks by the various Tor teams will be in two pieces this year: Nov 29 for the core Tor teams, and Dec 6ish for the Tor community projects -- Globaleaks, Onionshare, Guardian, Tails, etc etc. Suggestion: gather all of the Tor talks into one easily-found place. Roger's talks are great but they are scattered around the internet! Tor should collect them all in one place. added Sponsor 112 label
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