The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Team · GitLab

The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Team · GitLab
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Created on
June 25, 2020
Welcome to the anti-censorship team page. The anti-censorship team is a group of people who make Tor reachable anywhere in the world. We analyze censorship attempts and develop technology to work around these censorship attempts. One of the reasons we are not listing the names of the team members here is because we want to keep the team open to everyone. You're on the team if you're participating in discussions and development.
Excited about joining the team? Here is more information on how to get started.
IRC/matrix meetings schedule
We use ​IRC for our weekly meetings and we meet on the ​OFTC network in the #tor-meeting channel, this channel is also accesible over the matrix channel at
#tor-meeting:matrix.org
. The meeting takes place each Thursday at 16:00 UTC and typically lasts for an hour. Sometimes, we have to cancel our meeting but we announce cancellations on
our ​mailing list
. Besides, our
​meeting pad
always shows the date of the next meeting.
If you want to get involved in Tor's anti-censorship work, try to show up to the team meeting! To get an idea of what we discuss in our meetings, take a look at our ​
meeting pad
. In a nutshell, we use our weekly meetings to:
Make announcements to the team.
Discuss topics like our development roadmap, team processes, or code architecture.
Ask for help with whatever we're working on.
Coordinate code review.
People on the anti-censorship team use the pad to keep track of what they did the past week, what they plan to do next week, and what they need help with. If you missed a meeting, fret not! We post log files of our meetings on the ​
tor-project
mailing list, typically with the string "Anti-censorship meeting notes" in the email's subject line.
We use the string "anti-censorship-team" on IRC to reach all team members, e.g. "anti-censorship-team: take a look at bug #1234". Be sure to configure a highlight in your IRC client for this string.
IRC/matrix channel
For direct communication we use the #tor-anticensorship IRC channel in the OFTC network, also available in the matrix network as
#tor-anticensorship:matrix.org
. Is a good place to hang out or come with questions and comments.
Mailing list
For asynchronous communication, we use our ​
anti-censorship-team
mailing list. The list is
​publicly archived
and available for anyone to sign up, so feel free to participate! Among other things, we use this mailing list to coordinate meetings, send announcements, and discuss all matters related to the anti-censorship team. Note that for development-related topics, we use the ​
tor-dev
mailing list.
Priorities
Priorities for 2025
Make Tor more accessible in Iran
Make Tor more accessible in Russia
Make Tor more accessible in China
Detect and investigate attempts to censor Tor.
Continue working on Lox and support Applications team on integration
Maintain and improve pluggable transports (conjure and others)
Support the Tor community team with anti-censorship issues
Improve the reliability of Snowflake network
Improve the reliability of rdsys
Priorities for previous years
Roadmap
Roadmaps for previous years
Active Projects and Contracts
Project 146: Expanding access to digital media through the use of secure communications, infrastructure, tools, and techniques
Projects that the team maintains
rdsys
Lox
Pluggable Transports
Snowflake
Snowflake Mobile
BridgeDB
Services
for which we have
survival guides
Becoming a volunteer
Thanks for volunteering with us! There are many things that we need your help with:
Do you think that Tor (or one of its pluggable transports) is blocked in your country or network? Let us know!
Do you know how to code? Come help us improve one of our software projects! See below for more details.
We maintain lots of documentation which regularly needs updates and new content.
Do you have a background in UX? We maintain user-facing software whose user experience matters to us.
The best way to get involved is to visit our weekly IRC meeting (see above). Tell us your background and interests and we will find a project for your to get started.
How our team & work connect to the rest of Tor
We work very closely with the
Community Team
, as they are the connection with users in different areas of the world facing censorship. They know best what problems appear to connect to the Tor network and how users are facing them. Thanks to them we get up date information on what is working where and what needs improvements.
Our software gets integrated in Tor Browser, Tails and many other applications using Tor. We work with the
Applications Team
to coordinate releases and integrate the latest developments.
We produce many metrics like bridge requests per country and per distribution mechanism or usage of specific pluggable transports. And work with the
Network Health Team
to collect and process them.
We run
many services
on
TPA
infrastructure and coordinate with their team any important changes.
Other interesting communities
Other communities where there are conversations around anti-censorship and we keep connection with are:
OONI slack
net4people forum
ntc.party forum
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