Once a year a dozen or two Tails contributors come together to meet each other in person, to discuss the project and to plan the next steps. This year, we met in August and enjoyed one week of discussions, skill sharing and work sessions. One of the outcomes of the summit is the roadmap [0], which roughly defines what we want to and/or have to work during the next two years. The roadmap on our website is still the *previous* one, the new and changed plans will be added in the next few weeks.
[0] https://tails.boum.org/contribute/roadmap There have been meetings of nearly all the teams that are listed in the collective process description [1] (under *Roles*) and more. These meetings serve as a place for evaluation of last year's work, discussions about hot topics and also preparations for defining a roadmap. For example, the Foundations team talked about porting Tails to Debian Buster, the discontinuation of vmdebootstrap [2], the migration to overlayfs [3] and the problems our test suite has with Java 9 [4]. [1] https://tails.boum.org/contribute#collective-process [2] https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/15349 [3] https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/8415 [4] https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/15460 The help desk team reconfirmed the need for a request tracker [5] and the Fundraising team reviewed the donation campaigns we did last year and decided to strengthen Tails' relationship with existing partners. The team of technical writers, which now has one additional person, started working on a writing style guide and intends to tackle explaining better what Tails is and what makes it so awesome [6]. The UX team reviewed the redesign of the download page and the work on Unlocking Veracrypt Volumes as well as on the Additional Software Packages feature. It also expressed the need for someone doing review when working on the website. [5] https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/9960 [6] https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/9814 We also had a skill sharing session in which some of us who do Tails workshops discussed their approach to teaching about Tails. A couple of translators got together to talk about their experience translating the Tails documentation and the applications that are included in Tails. There was also a session about the upcoming translation platform [7] and there are plans to do workshops about translating with Weblate to onboard new translators and translation teams once the platform is in production. In other discussions we talked about our relationships with upstream projects like Tor and Debian and what we could do better in this regard. [7] https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/10034 Throughout the whole summit, we prioritized the personas [8] that were developed and discussed in the monthly meetings [9]. Together with Simply Secure [10] there were workshops where we worked on Tails' identity and a tagline, which will be incorporated into the mentioned work on explaining better what Tails is [11]. [8] https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/personas#index5h1 [9] https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/monthly_meeting [10] https://simplysecure.org/ [11] https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/9814 In between the sessions we did some *networking* to get to know each other better, which helps enormously in the day to day business of working on Tails. After long and intense days we developed several tactics not to get eaten by mosquitos at night :) All in all it was a very productive couple of days. The roadmap now includes the plan to distribute a USB image [12] + [13], make quantitative surveys of our user base [14] and go in production with our translation platform [15]. On the long run we are toying with the ideas of replacing our Upgrader [16], switching our Git workflow and issue tracker to Gitlab [17] and looking at snapshots/flatpak for sandboxing applications [18]. [12] https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/15292 [13] https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/usb_install_and_upgrade/usb_bootable_disk_image [14] https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/14545 [15] https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/10034 [16] https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/Endless_upgrades/#non-nih [17] https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/15878 [18] https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/15874 As you can see, there are a lot of things that have to be done, a lot of ideas how to make Tails better and a lot of places that can benefit from more helping hands! *You* can perhaps make the difference, so do not hesitate to join the dance [19]! [19] https://tails.boum.org/contribute/
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