Events

More event info here: https://blog.torproject.org/tor-community-day-2024/

When

• Date: May 25th, 2024
• Time: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. (There will be an hour and a half break for lunch.)

Where

• Location: Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Colégio Almada Negreiros, Room 209.

Who

• Organizers: The Tor Project and PrivacyLx
• The Tor Community Day is free and open to the public. Anyone who wishes to join is welcome without any prior need to sign up. If you're curious about Tor, stop by!

Program

• This is a bilingual event: The first half of the event will be in English, the second half in Portuguese.
• We'll have talks from the Tor Project and from members of the community in Portugal.

• Be on the lookout for updates about the schedule and participating projects on our social channels and the Tor forum.

• 09h00 - 09h15: Welcome by Kevin and Meskio

• 09h15 - 10h00: Workshop: How to use Tor by Juga
• 10h00 - 10h15: Break and discussion
• 10h15 - 10h30: Run a Tor relay at your University by Roger
• 10h30 - 11h00: Academic work in anti-censorship by Afonso
• 11h00 - 11h15: Break and discussion
• 11h15 - 11h45: How to report a bug by Emma
• 11h45 - 12h15: Localization Work in Tor by Cacu
• 12h15 - 14h15: Lunch break (Lunch not provided)
• 14h15 - 14h30: Como funciona o Tor por Kevin
• 14h30 - 15h00: Snowflake por Gus
• 15h00 - 15h30: Pausa e conversa
• 15h30 - 16h00: Experiência de correr 30 bridges do Snowflake por Cisco e Vasilis
• 16h00 - 16h30: Pausa e conversa
• 16h30 - 17h00: Serviços de Onion por Rhatto
• 17h00: Encerramento do evento por Kevin e Meskio

Quando

• Data: 25 de maio de 2024
• Horário: 9h às 17h. (Haverá um intervalo de uma hora e meia para o almoço).

Onde

• Localização: Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Colégio Almada Negreiros, Sala 209.

Quem

• Organizadores: The Tor Project e PrivacyLx
• O Dia da Comunidade do Tor é gratuito e aberto ao público. Qualquer pessoa que deseje participar é bem-vinda sem necessidade de se inscrever previamente. Se estiveres curioso sobre o Tor, aparece!

Programa

• Este é um evento bilingue: A primeira metade do evento será em inglês, a segunda metade em português.
• Teremos palestras do Projeto Tor e de membros da comunidade em Portugal.
• Estejam atentos a actualizações sobre a programação e os projectos participantes nos nossos canais sociais e no fórum Tor.

The Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (DRIF) is an important platform where conversations on digital policy in Africa are shaped, policy directions debated and partnerships forged for action.

This year's theme is Fostering Rights and Inclusion in the Digital Age. Learn more here: https://drif.paradigmhq.org/

DRIF offers a forum where discussions on digital rights, inclusion, and policy are shaped, policy trajectories are discussed, and partnerships are forged for action.

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.

Visit their website: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/

Biggest free tech conference in Portugal: It's an annual conference that takes place at the Alameda Campus of Técnico Lisboa, in the capital city of Portugal, Lisbon.

Roger Dingledine, Tor Project Co-Founder, will give a keynote. http://www.sinfo.org/

FOSSASIA Summit 2024 will take place from Monday 8th April to Wednesday 10 April in Ha Noi, Vietnam. With over a decade of fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange, the FOSSASIA Summit has become a platform for developers, enthusiasts, and industry leaders. This year, we expect to welcome a diverse community of 3,000 attendees from across the globe, providing a unique opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and explore the latest advancements in open source.

Roger Dingledine, Co-Founder of The Tor Project, will speak at the event.

For the full program and speaker list, please visit: https://summit.fossasia.org

The Australian Cyber Conference - Canberra will provide business leaders with insights and best practices taught by the industry’s top experts through keynotes, panel sessions and live demonstrations – in person.

Roger Dingledine, Co-Founder of The Tor Project, will join a policy panel session and deliver a keynote address:

• Policy Panel Session: "Technology can be inherently political. Is a balance between innovation and policies achievable?", March 26th
• Meet-and-greet with Tor tshirt give-away: March 27th 12:55-13:55
• Keynote: March 27th, https://canberra2024.cyberconference.com.au/sessions/keynote-with-roger-dingledine

For the full program and speaker list, please visit: https://canberra2024.cyberconference.com.au/speakers

Righeal World Crypto Symposium aims to bring together cryptography researchers with developers implementing cryptography in real-world systems. The conference goal is to strengthen the dialogue between these two communities. Topics covered focus on uses of cryptography in real-world environments such as the Internet, the cloud, and embedded devices.

The programme consists of invited and contributed talks. Members of the Tor community will be in attendance.

More info: https://rwc.iacr.org/2024/

As a yearly event, we’ve been bringing the world’s best cryptographic developers (from open source and industry) together with top experts in formal verification and high assurance methodologies. The goal is to foster collaborations towards making cryptographic software flawless.

HACS 2024 will be in Toronto, March 21–22 plus an optional "hack day" the 23th. HACS is an invite-only event, but for 2024 we accepted self-nominations via applications over here.

Wikimedia Deutschland would like to cordially invite the Tor community to attend a panel discussion with Stefan Meyer, author of "The Battle for the Internet” to talk about how we can make the internet more democratic, what opportunities it offers for the participation of civil society and how we can strengthen non-commercial projects.

Panelists include Konstantin von Notz (MdB, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Katharina Nocun (Civil rights activist and publisher), moderated by Tobias Schmid (IT- & Communications Researcher)

The conference organizers are looking forward to welcoming local Tor community members at the event. More details about the event and registration link via: https://www.wikimedia.de/veranstaltungen/buchvorstellung-der-kampf-um-das-internet/

The next Tor Relay Operator Meetup will happen on Saturday, March 2nd, 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: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/relays/-/issues/86

For more information visit the forum: https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-next-tor-relay-operator-meetup-march-2nd-2024-19-00-utc/11568