15:59:13 #startmeeting community team 15:59:13 Meeting started Mon Jul 30 15:59:13 2018 UTC. The chair is flexlibris. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 15:59:13 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 15:59:21 kushal yikes that is hot! 15:59:27 * kushal is here for the meeting. 15:59:40 okay here is our roadmap link: https://storm.torproject.org/shared/hwK5GyNeaWh_RwQlGf2wcQGLg2aozCvJcIqS8dwTlB6 15:59:42 42 average? 15:59:55 I think this will be a shorter meeting since a few people are missing bc of PETS travel 16:00:03 * flexlibris looks at roadmap 16:00:05 * kushal has one update 16:00:24 let's check on roadmap progress and then do updates 16:00:55 ggus: I saw your email about the support portal update workflow 16:00:59 I know I haven't responded yet but 16:01:21 it looked good from skimming it. 16:01:32 I would add something into the workflow about checking the user advocate spreadsheet from that month 16:01:38 because that is where I get a lot of support portal additions 16:01:55 I will send a more substantial reply to that mail as soon as I have a moment but that is an initial thought 16:02:44 ggus I know you have also been doing a lot of work on the Mexico City meeting open days, but we can wait to talk about that during the next hour's meeting :) 16:02:49 yes, isa told me about this too, but i forgot to include. the user spreadsheet will be updated after cy internship by the user advocate person, right? 16:03:24 ggus: yep, it will be the mozilla fellow after that 16:03:25 Can we get a video call during the mexico meetings? does not have to be public, private links will do :) 16:03:32 * antonela o/ 16:03:39 flexlibris: one quick question 16:03:44 kushal: we have had one in the past for a few attendees in a few sessions 16:03:57 if you can let me and Jon know what sessions you want to see we can try to make it work 16:03:58 do you think we include translation things here or this should be in UX roadmap? 16:04:07 ggus: let's put them here too 16:04:13 better to duplicate 16:04:16 so it doesn't get missed 16:04:19 ok!, ey, emmapeel^ 16:04:24 dime 16:04:29 flexlibris, Thank you, I will talk to you after meeting. 16:04:55 yes ... not sure what i am supposed to say :D we were working on a blogpost with stephw and i sent a call inside transifex 16:05:00 french and spanish are ready 16:05:31 they need some reviewing though 16:05:31 if you have a roadmap for translations, add here: https://storm.torproject.org/shared/hwK5GyNeaWh_RwQlGf2wcQGLg2aozCvJcIqS8dwTlB6 16:05:49 or, you could add what you have done in july 16:06:06 and also look for dependencies, like we have the TBA manual creation, that will need to get translated 16:06:36 another roadmap thing for July -- ggus and I have been working on the desktop docs for TB 8.0 16:06:43 those are almost finished, we just need to share our screenshots 16:06:53 and then we will begin working on the Android stuff 16:07:02 TBA manual? is that part of tb-manual? i wish documents will have other langs translated 16:07:06 can we talk about that here? 16:07:21 emmapeel: yeah TBA will be Tor Browser Android manual 16:07:26 i mean..... i would like tb-manual to have other languages linked from the docs 16:07:31 and yes we can talk about that here 16:07:53 the tb-manual.torproject.org is supposed to have that but the translations have always been wonky 16:08:05 I don't know if that is an issue with transifex or what 16:08:11 to have, on each documentation page, a link to the same doc on other languages 16:08:17 yes 16:08:34 tb-manual is translated but is hard to access the other translations, and it is not linked anywhere on the website 16:08:46 yes and the translations aren't even complete on most of the non-EN manuals 16:08:55 or they used to not be 16:09:05 so how do we fix this 16:09:15 > it is not linked anywhere on the website 16:09:22 yeah, we need to add this!! 16:10:14 i send an email to some list the other day and somebody offered help with mallard, the yet-another-site-generator the tb-manual is written in 16:10:33 but i have not followed up on this 16:10:43 (hm, jaruga isn't online now) 16:10:55 i didn't know we have an alpha version... 16:10:59 of tb-manual 16:11:05 we do? 16:11:29 in the meantime, people can help translating the tb-manual at transifexx 16:11:44 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-community-team/2018-July/000201.html 16:12:54 ggus we haven't even figured out where the TBA manual is going to live 16:13:15 since we have eventual goals for all this content to be on support.torproject.org and probably also linked from community.tpo 16:13:18 it is hard for me to understand where to push for this, if at the community team, the ux team, or the tbb team... 16:13:23 but in the meantime it's hard to find 16:13:33 emmapeel: push for manual translations? 16:13:55 in the webpage of the torproject there is no link to any language other than english 16:14:01 and i think we have a lot of content on other languages 16:14:04 i think community.tpo is a good hub for manuals 16:14:12 and it would be low hanging fruit jus tto link it there somewhere 16:14:16 who takes cares of the dog called tb-manual :) 16:14:19 before the supergreat new webpage happens 16:14:42 you go to https://www.torproject.org/docs/documentation.html.en and its only in english 16:14:49 that is not very global-south friendly 16:15:03 there is a manuals section... they could be there 16:15:19 emmapeel yeah I totally agree 16:15:26 those documentation pages are a mess overall 16:15:32 instead of the copy of the man page that appearas right now 16:15:42 the manual linked from the main page isn't even the same manual we're talking about 16:15:55 yes, is a dev docs 16:16:00 so, who takes care of that page and how can we make that person link the much better manuals we have? 16:16:13 :D:D 16:17:04 hiro? 16:17:32 antonela: https://community.torproject.org/ gives me a 404 16:17:40 emmapeel it's not up yet 16:17:48 but there are mockups 16:18:13 https://marvelapp.com/project/2397265/ 16:18:53 so who can get that added on the website? hiro? weasel? 16:19:14 the old website is such a mess that I don't even try to fix things on it anymore, I just make a note of something for the new site redesign. 16:19:20 +1 16:19:32 we're in a gap moment between the old and the new website :| 16:19:45 but I think emmapeel is right, this is a small change that we can make right now that is a good stopgap before the new site 16:19:52 i have heard the same since 3 years ago when i started asking for this link :) 16:20:10 emmapeel I know, it's sad but true 16:20:23 we are making it now! :D 16:20:45 emmapeel: I think just open a ticket and tag it website 16:20:51 and it will automagically get done 16:20:52 i think it would be super easy to swap the content of https://www.torproject.org/docs for a list of links 16:20:57 emmapeel, lets see if hiro can do it. Let's open a ticket with her name 16:21:02 ye that 16:21:29 emmapeel: we can work on this changes and then we open the ticket 16:21:52 add: tb-manual link in download page, for example 16:22:07 yes 16:22:25 and then once we have the TBA content we'll send it to transifex 16:22:49 * flexlibris looks through other roadmap items 16:23:29 okay so a lot of the un-updated items are Phoul's and he is traveling home from PETS 16:23:57 i suggest this workflow: today or tomorrow we talk here or at #tor-south, write all the things in a pad, transform in tickets in trac.tpo, and then we report these tickets at community-team mailing list 16:24:25 ggus: agreed! 16:24:40 :D 16:24:43 tomorrow at 1700? 16:24:44 UTC 16:24:47 also maybe we can bug hiro to update https://support-staging.torproject.org/ 16:25:15 flexlibris: works for me 16:25:22 with the current repo with more languages so we can test the languages 16:26:06 so just to recap, it sounds like this meeting will be about updating the website doc pages to reflect more current and translated resources, particularly the manual? 16:26:16 soon to be manuals 16:26:36 yes! 16:26:39 great 16:26:55 tomorrow 1700 UTC, if this room is taken we will use #tor-south 16:27:17 and let's make sure jaruga is there 16:27:36 okay so as for other roadmap stuff.... 16:27:48 most of the un-updated items are Phoul's and he's in transit home from PETS 16:28:06 * ggus has updates about kenya logistics 16:28:15 I don't really have more updates, I am still working on my ongoing stuff like LFI and Mexico meeting planning and support docs 16:28:23 kushal had an update then ggus you can go 16:28:30 ok! 16:30:03 kushal? 16:30:46 oops sorry i will be flying most of the day tomorrow... not sure i can attend this meeting 16:31:08 emmapeel what's another day that works for you? 16:31:14 ggus I think we lost kushal, so you can go ahead 16:31:52 last friday helen and i booked our flights to kenya to the end of august. our itinerary: mombasa and then nairobi. 16:31:58 woooo 16:31:58 wed Aug 1st works for me 16:32:03 what are the final dates ggus? 16:32:29 august 28th - sept 09 16:32:35 ggus emmapeel I can do August 1 at 1700 UTC 16:32:53 ggus: great! how many groups are you scheduled to meet with? 16:33:51 one group in mombasa, and in kenya we're still scheduling all the activities. we're going to rent a room, because we couldn't find (yet) a partner to host the workshops 16:34:01 cool 16:34:10 so excited for you 16:34:11 in nairobi we have at least three distincts groups 16:34:19 sorry 16:34:28 that's okay kushal you can go after ggus 16:34:32 flexlibris: i'm very excited to this!!! :D even dreaming. 16:34:38 yeah it's amazing! 16:34:40 take lots of pics 16:34:45 hahah! sure! 16:34:55 eat all the food. 16:35:00 yes 16:35:13 if you're finished ggus then kushal can go 16:35:22 https://giphy.com/gifs/fantastic-mr-fox-QvRS8N8VwGy1G 16:35:27 ok, done. 16:35:33 I got a call from ISP (Siti Network, who was blocking Tor in Kolkata) and they 16:35:34 said that they cleared the blockade for my account there. They got the pressure 16:35:34 from the TRAI (I made a complain to TRAI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAI). 16:35:48 At first they tried to tell wrong things (like: because Tor works as a VPN, it 16:35:48 never worked before). I am planning to write another blog specially asking 16:35:48 folks from Kolkata to test using OONI and provide feedback if Tor is allowed 16:35:48 by default or not. 16:35:59 ^^ any tips/suggestions? 16:36:18 do you have a sense of what they're blocking? 16:36:33 kushal: i installed the ooni app for android and worked quite well (from fdroid store) 16:36:40 flexlibris, IPs, we published a blog post around a month back. 16:36:55 emmapeel, yup 16:37:01 do any of the censorship circumvention methods work? 16:37:14 flexlibris, Yes, but they were asking for money to make it easy. 16:37:34 flexlibris, most of the default bridges were blocked. 16:37:38 but, new ones worked. 16:37:41 * ggus forgot to talk about translators swags topic. _o/ 16:37:46 who was asking for money? 16:37:54 flexlibris, ISP 16:37:58 the isp 16:38:03 To remove any restrictions 16:38:11 wowww 16:38:26 how much money? 16:38:44 flexlibris, https://blog.torproject.org/siti-networks-india-wants-me-pay-unblock-tor 16:39:30 flexlibris, not sure about the actual amount, but that is for static IP, means more than most of the users can ever pay. 16:40:18 ah right. yeah, you should do an update to this post then and that can be a call to action for other users to test with OONI 16:40:54 one thing about this 16:40:55 Okay, thank you. 16:41:15 * Samdney hast to go. See you. 16:41:43 ooni app can't make the test 'vanilla tor connections'. you can do this using ooni desktop. or i'm wrong? 16:42:32 ggus, I was using desktop 16:42:35 they do have a vanilla tor test 16:42:45 in the app? 16:42:53 my understanding is that they want it in the app, but it's not there yet 16:43:00 https://ooni.torproject.org/nettest/vanilla-tor/ 16:43:05 yeah so maybe just desktop 16:43:07 at least i wasn't seeing results from mobile when i looked last week 16:43:14 so it'd have to be a very recent thing 16:43:35 i have one called web connectivity but i dont see any tor test 16:43:46 (in ooni for android from the fdroid store) 16:43:54 they did talk about using tcp_connect test as a fake vanilla tor test 16:44:04 e.g. can i tcp connect to a relay/bridge? 16:44:04 thanks irl! :) 16:44:36 it's definitely still worth asking people to install the app because then when the test is available, people update and we get more data straight away 16:46:41 yeah I think update the original post with instructions for how to test at the top 16:46:46 kushal ^^ 16:46:49 Okay 16:46:51 Thanks 16:46:54 done from me. 16:47:05 anyone else? 16:47:09 yes o/ 16:47:16 ah right go ahead ggus! 16:47:22 we started to discuss about tor swags for translators 16:47:27 yes 16:47:41 so, what how we should do this 16:47:46 yes yes we want goodies for translators 16:48:03 so what's the threshold we want for getting them swag? 16:48:09 i remember a while ago phoul offered me some swag actually 16:48:18 because of my translation work 16:48:25 like, so many strings translated, so much time spent? 16:48:29 so maybe this decision has already been taken a while ago 16:48:49 emmapeel: it was one of those things that people always wanted to do but we didn't have the capacity to do regularly 16:48:50 i think it should be when people kinda owns the project in some way 16:48:55 so I think it happened here and there 16:48:55 works on it, spends time on it 16:49:17 yes definitely 16:49:54 so how do we want to define that? and then where do we advertise this perk? 16:50:17 but sometimes people is not only translating, but suggesting correction, helping new translators with nice explanations, etc 16:50:23 i don't know if advertise is a good thing... 16:50:41 I meant only in the sense that like, relay operators know that they get a tshirt after a while 16:50:54 not sure we need to advertise it 16:51:09 kat5 has a program for recognizing outstanding volunteers, maybe we just want to make this part of that 16:51:15 her program has two tiers 16:51:28 it would be part of that, of course 16:51:33 one for someone doing a regular good job and one for someone doing a really good job 16:51:44 so in that case you'd just nominate the person to Kat and she'd take care of it 16:52:15 ok, for what phoul asked me, i should get a post address 16:53:21 emmapeel here is the original ticket for what kat is doing: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24148 16:53:39 cheers flexlibris 16:54:06 okay anything else to discuss? 16:54:12 i'm good 16:54:22 if not then I will get myself more coffee and get ready to meet in the other tor meeting room for the Mexico City planning meeting 16:55:23 okay cool people! i'm killing the bot! come help us plan for mexico city!! :) 16:55:26 #endmeeting