On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:55:52 -0400 Roger Dingledine <[email protected]> wrote:
First off, let me welcome tor-dev and the world to the sausage factory of open source projects. > You should definitely put them somewhere. But be sure to retain the > original text too, so we can go back and compare if we need to later. Won't the past text and the diff be in the wiki history for the page? > All of that said, I totally agree that for #1, we need to be sure > Andrew and the funder both understand that we can't promise that > we'll deploy any particular transport protocol -- the first step is > research, and that means step two must stay flexible. I expect the pushback to be along the lines of "this is a deployment goal, not a research goal". If http/dns is bad, then we should figure out some way to deploy two unique transports in the wild. > Andrew is hoping to use this as an opportunity to explore "hire > people who will do great work and not charge American prices". > Apparently our current Farsi translator is one such person, and > Andrew hopes we find more. The language-specific support is part-time, at best. > > We have four separate directions in mind for this "community manager" > notion (not all funded by SponsorL, mind you): > 1) Relay operator coordinator. Somebody to keep relay operators happy > and in touch with us, encourage people to set up new relays, organize > recommended configurations, etc. Especially important in tandem with > our "network diversity" work at #6232. > 2) Volunteer-developer coordinator. Somebody to take incoming > volunteers and help them find good existing projects to work on. > Likely involves making our volunteer page more usable. Should also > include knowing enough about every project to recognize and identify > good low-hanging fruit, and knowing enough about our priorities to > make smart decisions. 3) Blog/forum/mailinglist coordinator, to make > sure our users have useful answers, and ultimately to manage and > organize the volunteers who make sure our users have useful answers. > 4) Social media person, to be our face on twitter, etc. > > I believe the plan is for Runa to cover #4, and for us to contract > somebody in our relay operator community part-time for #1 to start. I > think there is no plan for #2 and #3 yet; but I'd love it if we could > get somebody part-time for #2. Actually, we have three roles. #4 is the same as #3. Whether it's mailing list, forum, twitter, facebook, google+, whatever, the role is the same. > > Runa is wondering why we want > > funding for languages no one has emailed us in (Spanish and French); > > though nobody has emailed us in Arabic, either. We have only told people we can handle English and Farsi at this point. Once we announce others, they will come. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
