Events

Devcon is the Ethereum conference for developers, thinkers, and makers. Devcon's mission is to bring decentralized protocols, tools, and culture to the people and make Ethereum more accessible around the world.

Roger Dingledine (Co-founder of The Tor Project) is a featured speaker at the event: "Discussing lessons from the Tor community and privacy-by-design.""

Find out more here: https://devcon.org/en/programming/

The next Tor Relay Operator Meetup will happen on Saturday, October 26th, 2024 at 19.00 UTC.

We're still working on the agenda for this meetup, however feel free to add your topics directly to the ticket or just reply to the mailing list: Tor relay operator meetup (October 26th 2024 @ 1900 UTC) (#100) - Issues - The Tor Project / Community / Relays - GitLab 1

For more information visit the forum: https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-next-tor-relay-operator-meetup-october-26th-2024-at-1900-utc/15203

For many vulnerable Internet users, the Tor network is the only way to gain access to encrypted services. It's made possible by relay operators, the thousands of volunteers who donate their time, technical expertise, and hardware. Join us for a roundtable discussion with individual and institutional relay operators to learn more about the ins and outs of powering a safer, more equitable internet.

We invite you to get to know some of Tor’s dedicated volunteer relay operators. For a deeper look at the motivations and challenges of this community, we will speak with two researchers, Ana Custura and Victoria Neumann, who will share findings from their recent study on the Relay Operator Community Health. Then, we’ll hear directly from a group of individual and institutional relay operators to learn more about the ins and outs of powering a safer, more equitable internet.

• Global Encryption Day: Distribute(d) trust -- The key to global encryption access (Monday, October 21, 17:00 UTC)

  • Host: Gus, Community Team Lead, The Tor Project

  • Panelists (Relay Operators)

    • Aquintex, Quintex 

    • Asya Mitseva, BTU Cottbus

    • Gunnar Wolf, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Tor University Challenge)

    • Julien Voisin, Nos Oignons

  • 📺 Stream live on our YouTube channel

This virtual live event is part of Tor's contributions to Global Encryption Day.

CriptoFrevo is a free, open and collaborative event to think about and experiment with the relationship between technology and culture, bringing digital rights debates closer to the popular cultural expressions that vibrate in Pernambuco.

Members of the Tor Project will be featured speakers at the event:

• October 19th, 18:10 to 19:00
• "Tor Stories: Cryptography, Privacy and Anonymity in the Global South" Gus, Tor Community Team Lead

More information: https://criptofrevo.ip.rec.br/

5th Seminar on Cryptography, Politics and Fundamental Rights will host a closing table on October 18 at 18h30 on "Future of Cryptography in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Surveillance and Digital Colonialism."

The featured speakers are:

• Isabela Fernandes (Tor Project),
• Chelsea Manning (Nym Technologies, remote),
• Rodolfo Avelino (CGI.br) and Pedro Amaral (ObCrypto - IP.rec).
• Moderator: André Fernandes (IP.rec).

More information: https://seminariodecriptografia.my.canva.site/

In this two-day The Tech We Want Online Summit, the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) is bringing together key voices working on public interest technologies to start a collective conversation about new practical ways to build software that is useful, simple, long-lasting and focused on solving people's real problems.

The Online Summit is open to everyone, especially technology workers, developers, engineers and programming language specialists who are interested in taking a critical look at current technologies.

Tor's Executive Director, Isabela Fernandes, will join a panel about the trajectories of some open and alternative technologies, and discuss how to tip the scales in our favor of free and open technology amidst a solutionist discourse in an ultra-specialised industry.

• When: October 17 from 13:30 - 14:30 UTC.
• Where: https://okfn.org/en/events/the-tech-we-want-online-summit/

The event brings together digital rights networks from around the world for three days of collaboration building, knowledge sharing, brainstorming, and rejuvenation.

At the Tor and Tails booth you can learn more about tools that can help you be anonymous on the internet. Come to chat with us about how to use the Tor Browser or the Tails OS to protect your privacy online and bypass censorship. Learn more about our community and how to volunteer. And if you would like to partner with us for digital security training in your area.

We will also host a variety of circles & sessions:

• Friday September 27

  • 15:00 Working on the well-being of workers - discussion about policies for well-being of workers and how to build democratic processes within the organization. -- Isabela
  • 16:30 Running Tor relays in/by the Global South - session on how to run Tor relays in people's own contexts, technical requirements, to motivate people in Global South countries to run relays. --Raya

• Saturday September 28

  • Developing robust signalling channel – For users in highly censored regions, gaining access to anti-censorship tools can be difficult since these tools are prime targets of blocking by censors. A signalling channels is a highly available (i.e., difficult for censors to block), typically low-bandwidth, method of communication that aims to provide users access to more robust anti-censorship tools. Typically a user makes a request to a signalling channel and gets a response that includes secret keys and/or addresses of proxies or bridges for users to make a censorship-resistant connection. Despite the existence of many censorship-resistant tools, options for signalling channels are limited. With many cloud providers opting to discontinue support for domain fronting, we are interested in exploring strategies around new signalling channels that might be able to help censored users get essential information to make anti-censorship connections.

• Sunday September 29

  • Leveraging Weblate and automated checks for higher quality localization – In this session we will share best practice on localizing Internet Freedom applications and we will share how Tor Project migrated from Transifex into Weblate, a free software project.
  • Tor Browser, Tails, and You – How do Tails and the Tor Browser currently fit into the digital security toolbox for your communities? How could they become more helpful in that toolbox? Come and discuss it with the Tor Applications Team and the Tails Team.

  For more info on programming, please visit: https://wiki.digitalrights.community/index.php?title=Global_Gathering_2024

FIFAfrica24, set to take place in Dakar, Senegal, offers a platform for deliberation on gaps and opportunities for advancing privacy, free expression, inclusion, free flow of information, civic participation, and innovation online. This year marks the first time that the largest gathering on digital rights on the continent will be hosted in Francophone Africa. Previous editions have been hosted in Uganda, South Africa, Ghana, Ethiopia, Zambia and Tanzania.

Members of the Tor Project will be in attendance and host sessions:

• Tuesday September 24 – Pre-event by invitation only: Protecting human rights defenders and journalists

• Thursday, September 26 – Running Tor relays in the Global South

  For more info on programming, please visit: https://internetfreedom.africa/fifafrica-agenda/

Matrix is first and foremost built by its community. This event is meant for everyone to learn what everyone is working on, share or hack on projects, or hire experienced members.

Come join us for our talk "Advancing human rights with Tor" on September 21, 2024 at 10.00am local time.

For the full schedule, please visit: https://2024.matrix.org/

Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem. It is the gathering place for open-source code and community contributors.

Open Source Summit is a conference umbrella, composed of a collection of events covering the most important technologies, topics, and issues affecting open source today.

Visit their website: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-open-source-summit-ai-dev-china/about/about-open-source-summit/