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Community Team
Welcome to the Community Team page!
The Community Team is for helping people who help Tor, and growing and sustaining the Tor community. We work on things like outreach, advocacy, teaching, user support, getting relay operators what they need, and community governance.
Community Team Projects
- Community portal: repository and website.
- Global South Strategy: 2018 - 2022 evaluation report, summary
- User Support & front desk
- User Documentation: Tor Browser user manual, Support portal, and Community portal.
- Network Health and Relay Advocacy
- Tor Trainings with Human Rights Defenders
- Localization
- Outreach
- Community Policies
Communication
Our synchronous medium of communication is (#tor-project:matrix.org) on IRC/Matrix/OFTC. If you've never been on IRC/Matrix before, here are some instructions to get started. The Tor Project Community Team meets every Monday at 14 UTC (other timezones) in BBB.
Our asynchronous medium of communication is the Tor Forum. Feel free to register and to post if you want to say something that you think is on topic.
How to get involved
- Relay operators meetups happens every month, keep an eye on tor-relays mailing list.
- Localization Hangouts: Tor translators meets on #tor-l10n channel.
- Check out our official Tor training materials.
- Meet us @ events.
Sponsored Projects (2024)
- Project 9: Usability and Community Intervention on Support for Democracy and Human Rights.
- Project 96: Rapid Expansion of Access to the Uncensored Internet through Tor in China, Hong Kong, & Tibet.
- Project 145: Tor Secure Access Package for USAGM
- Project 101: Tor new "VPN" app.
- Project 112: Combating Malicious Relays
- Project 152: Rapid Response Fund in TM
- Project 149: Digital safety training for at-risk MENA communities and organizations
- Project 146: Expanding access to digital media through the use of secure communications, infrastructure, tools, and techniques
Priorities 2024
- Assist Network Health Team to maintain a healthy relay operators community
- Improve the Tor Community Policies and governance
- Improve Community Team internal policies
- Assist Anti-censorship Team on connecting with censored users to improve censorship circumvention
- Help users in high censored regions
- Improve user support tools and documentation
- Lead trainings with communities in the Global South: Latin America, East Africa, and MENA
- Look for spikes in Tor Metrics usage
- Improve localization tooling
- Spreading onions: spread onion sites around the world, build devops tools for onion operators and onion services health monitoring.
- 2024 Elections monitoring, training, and user support
Roadmap (Q3-Q4 2024)
Project 9
Project 112
Project 145
Project 146
Project 101: Tor new "VPN" app.
Roadmap (Q1-Q2 2024)
Project 9
- Virtual meetups with Tor digital security trainings, journalists and human rights defenders in the Global South.
- Privacy Resilience Grants cycle (East Africa and MENA)
- User Support: Assist and help Tor users
- Update and maintain Tor user documentation:
- Support portal
- TB-Manual
- Translators documentation
- Localization:
- Improve and maintain the localization infrastructure.
- Cultivate a community of translators and reviewers
- Keep resources up to date on target languages
Project 96
- Increase the number of bridges
- Assist anti-censorship team on monitoring bridge health in the target region.
- Localize all UI modified in this project.
- Build region-specific outreach, distribution, and user support.
Project 112
- O2.2: Evaluate promising solutions for relay operator code of conducts, policies, agreements and methods for enforcement.
- O2.3: Develop and implement solutions for operator codes of conduct, policies, agreements, and methods for enforcement.
- O2.4: Document relay community governance processes.
Project 145
- Train journalists and editorial staff on use of Tor and Onion Services
- Build and improve tools for developers
- Improve documentation around Onion Services
- Deploy new services
Previous Priorities and Roadmaps
Previous projects
- Project 96
- Sponsor 30/Sponsor 60: Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship.
- Sponsor 123: Tor Secure Access Package for USAGM
- Sponsor 134: Localizing Tor tools and documentation into Arabic, Chinese, and Swahili
- Sponsor 139: Rapid Response Fund for Iran censorship circumvention
- Sponsor 144: Creating a public bank of user stories