Priorities 2023

Assist Network Health Team to maintain a healthy relay operators community
Assist Anti-censorship Team on connecting with censored users to improve censorship circumvention
Improve user support tools and documentation
Lead trainings with communities in the Global South, Latinoamerica, and East Africa.
Look for spikes in tor usage and document process and resources available for it.
Improve localization tooling
Spreading onions: spread onion sites around the world, build devops tools for onion operators and onion services health monitoring.
Kickoff the creation of solid internal policies
Improve moderation of IRC and Matrix spaces

Roadmap 2023

Meetup with Tor digital security trainings, journalists and human rights defenders.
Tor Localization Hackathon with community members - replaced with monthly hangouts
Fund orgs in East-Africa to run trainings (onboard partners, publish report with findings)
User Support
Update documentation on
- user support
- keep torproject.org and portals updated
- translators documentation
Migrate translations and translators to weblate

Through the year O1.4.1 Increase the number of dynamic bridges run by nonprofit partners.
In Q2 O1.4.2: Run a public campaign to encourage new individual operators to establish bridges.
Through the year assist anti-censorship team on O1.4.3: Monitor bridge health.
In Q1/Q2 O4.1: Localize all UI modified in this project.
Through the year O4.2 Create and publish user documentation.
Through the year O4.4: Build region-specific outreach, distribution, and user support.

O2.1 Develop evaluation criteria for determining if behavior expectation and consequence solutions are appropriate.
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.

Coordinate translations (by Localization lab) of tools and materials to Arabic, Chinese and Swahili.
Create social media content
Distribute content with target audiences

assist network health team to maintain a healthy relay operators community
assist anti-censorship team on connecting with censored users to improve censorship circumvention
improve user support tools and documentation
lead trainings with communities in latinoamerica and east africa
look for spikes in tor usage and document process and resources available for it.
improve localization tooling
Spreading onions: spread onionsites around the world, build devops tools for onion operators and onion services health monitoring.

Prepare outreach material in localized languages to target countries.
Work on torproject.org usabilty issues based on user feedback: only on download page.
Tor Localization Hackathon with community members. It was replaced with monthly hangouts
Update documentation for Tor Browser connection assist with the release is out. It is ready on alpha. It will be out in Q3.
Grow relationships between partners and build community in Latin America and East Africa.
Update user support documentation.
Keep torproject.org webpage up to date.
Start preparing next regional meetup.

3.4 Learn target users needs, provide digital security training on circumvention tools, and carry in-person user research to document pain points. (Brazil, Mexico and Ecuador with partner organizations there)
- Training Ecuador - Q3
- Brasil by Tails - Q3

In Q3, Q4: O4.4: Build region-specific outreach, distribution, and user support. <-- Onionshare, Tor Browser with connect assist.
Onionshare on target countries.
In Q3: O4.5: Assist UX TEAM on connecting with users in target countries on "Conduct end-user feedback collection and usability research".
O1.2.1: Run a public campaign to encourage Internet users to install the Snowflake extension <--- in Q3: small changes on messaging around snowflake extension versus using snowflake for circumvention (not UX work).
Through the year O1.4.1 Increase the number of dynamic bridges run by nonprofit partners.
Through the year assist anti-censorship team on O1.4.3: Monitor bridge health. (scope a tool for monitoring bridges for bridge operators for when the bridges are blocked)
O4.1: Localize all UI modified in this project. (documentation + tools)

Coordinate landing pages deployment, trainings and the onion services administration.
Continue deploying onion services for USAGM (RFE/RL, VOA, RFA)
Deploy landing pages for services to promote their Onion Services
Localize landing page content into all languages under USAGM umbrella
Support services with campaigning around censorship circumvention
Train journalists and editorial staff on use of Tor and Onion Services
Start translating Tor Browser Manual in a smaller set of languages
Build and improve tools for developers (OnionMine for mining vanity keys, OnionProbe for monitoring services' uptime/downtime, etc.)
Improve documentation around Onion Services

empowering community in the global south
be a source for user feedback that can feed tech development
help circumvent censorship in the global south
support young environmental activists in the global south
support improvements to Tor's network health
new methodologies to support people/community in high risk situations (online and in-person trainings, accessing TB)

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