17:58:49 #startmeeting anti-censorship team meeting 17:58:49 Meeting started Thu May 7 17:58:49 2020 UTC. The chair is phw. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 17:58:49 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 17:58:54 hello everybody 17:58:57 hi! 17:58:57 hi 17:59:03 Hello 17:59:03 here's our meeting pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-keep 18:00:19 let's start with our announcement: everybody, please welcome HashikD, our gsoc student, who will be building a snowflake proxy app for android 18:00:27 (phw: hey! i am double-booked for the meeting but i will read backlog, and also i'll be around afterwards if there are questions for me) 18:00:37 HashikD: welcome :D 18:00:40 arma2: alrighty 18:00:46 hi HashikD 18:00:51 hashikd: welcome too :) 18:00:56 hi 18:00:58 Hello everyone!! 18:01:02 hi HashikD 18:01:07 Heyy! 18:01:07 HashikD: sorry for not being able to attend the call earlier today. ironically, i ended up having the same call issues at the beginning of the next meeting 18:01:21 phw: no problem at all! 18:02:41 next item on our agenda is our meeting time. i believe that 18:00 utc isn't very convenient for folks on the asian continent, so i was wondering if you're all fine with moving the meeting to an earlier time? 18:02:51 like 16:00 or 17:00 utc 18:03:53 works for me 18:04:01 same here 18:04:08 16:00 is not too early for me 18:04:45 * cohosh looks for arlolra 18:04:50 gaba: wait, isn't the metrics team meeting at 17:00 utc? 18:06:35 i suggest moving it to 1600 if there are no conflicts with other meetings, and assuming arlo is fine with it too. 18:06:44 i'll send an email to our team list, so arlo has a chance to chime in 18:07:33 sounds good 18:07:40 next up is dcf1's dns pluggable transport idea 18:07:48 let me summarize briefly 18:08:13 turning the DNS tunnel implementation that exists now into a pluggable transport is something I could do myself, but I thought, 18:08:31 this could be an opportunity to expand the talent pool of people who are able to do that 18:08:57 so I posted a roadmap of anticipated development tasks to the anti-censorship-team mailing list 18:09:22 and I wanted to invite any beginners or lurkers who want to try such a project 18:09:44 if not, I suppose I will do it myself, by and by 18:10:19 i know of one or two volunteers who recently asked me what they could work on. i'll direct them to your roadmap. 18:10:38 thanks phw 18:11:23 phw: 1500 utc 18:11:32 is the metrics team meeting 18:11:37 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2020-May/000089.html (dropping the link to the roadmap for the record) 18:11:51 gaba: gotcha, thanks. then 1600 remains a good option for us. 18:13:03 and a brief update regarding meek-azure from my side 18:14:28 tor has been paying for the hosting, but is no longer able to do so. if anyone happens to have a contact inside microsoft (or even better: inside azure), please let me know. ideally, we would find a way to keep running it somehow because nobody wants to shut it down. 18:15:40 In the event that it needs to be shut down, one partial mitigation is we can make another post like https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2016-June/041699.html 18:16:02 that tells people how to set up their own (with the bonus that it will be faster than the shared meek-azure) 18:16:33 probably <1% of people are able to effectively make use of such instructions, but it's something 18:17:27 thanks dcf1, that's a good start 18:18:00 anything else for today before we move on to our 'needs help with' sections? 18:18:46 and for those who haven't seen it yet: next week's reading group will be about the salmon paper. agix volunteered to provide a summary, so thanks for that! 18:18:56 agix: nice :D 18:19:03 sure thing :) 18:19:55 ok, let's move on. these patches aint gonna review themselves 18:20:29 these turing machines aren't going to decide whether they themselves halt 18:20:58 i need a review of #12802, cohosh needs #27330 and #31278, and i think i owe agix a review for #33835. anything that i missed? 18:22:03 phw: do you want a review of that from me, or would hiro be a better person to ask? 18:22:20 Let me look at #31278. 18:22:31 cohosh: i'd like a review from you. hiro will take care of the integration 18:23:17 ok cool, i can take that then 18:23:21 i can take #27330 (unless hiro would be a better person to review this) 18:23:24 thanks! 18:23:45 phw: that'd be great thanks! 18:24:56 anything else for today? 18:25:31 HashikD: if you have any questions about our meeting or anything else, please ask! 18:26:11 Oh! nothing. I am just lurking to see how everything works :) 18:26:14 Thanks for asking 18:27:38 * phw waits for another minute before ending the meeting 18:28:31 #endmeeting