<html><head></head><body>Argh I didn't see your last message? I'm leaving the country on Thursday so I won't be able to make it. But if we wanted to do it before then or next Thursday I could join. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On March 11, 2017 6:41:00 PM PST, Patrick O'Doherty <p@trickod.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">In the absence of a reply I'm going to call a shotgun meeting for<br />noisetor this Thursday: 7pm @ Sycamore.<br /><br />We have a bunch of stuff to talk about:<br /> * expansion effort in Quadranet<br /> * expansion effort in iocoop in Santa Clara<br /> * the potential of running bridges as well as relays<br /> * helping the tor network expand to the global south.<br /><br />All welcome. Looking forward to seeing you all!<br /><br />p<br /><br />Cooper Quintin:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Yay! Doubling our capacity sounds great to me! Would it be worth meeting<br /> IRL soon to discuss future projects such as more bridges or exits in the<br /> global south?<br /> <br /> On 03/03/2017 12:52 PM, Patrick O'Doherty wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> We've reached out to Quadranet about the possibility of adding 3 more<br /> servers, which would effectively bring Noisetor's exit capacity to<br /> 2Gbps+ (given that our current single host is pushing 500+Mbps).<br /><br /> This bump would up our spend to $3,148/month ($787/month x 4) which<br /> should be sustainable for a while given our cash reserves. I'm working<br /> with Andy to get our accounting back into shape such that we can keep<br /> better tabs on our incoming donations.<br /><br /> Currently I believe our monthly donations are in the region of<br /> $600-700/month. I'll get better figures on this in the coming days.<br /><br /> Given that our accounting is not yet fully up to scratch I propose that<br /> we do the following in order:<br /><br /> a) immediately double our capacity in Quadranet<br /> b) rebab our accounting + get an accurate current account status<br /> c) plan for a fundraising campaign to raise further recurring donations<br /> d) bump our capacity again on the back of the new recurring donations +<br /> our cash reserves.<br /><br /> thoughts?<br /><br /> p<br /><br /><br /> Steve Phillips:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;"><br /> I asked some tor folks further after the meeting if Noisetor adding more<br /> capacity in our current DC would be valuable; they confirmed that it<br /> would be very much so.<br /> ...<br /> I plan on getting better estimates of our current cash on hand but I<br /> believe it's closer to, or over $10k.<br /> ...<br /> I think that if we were to bring up a new Exit or Bridge we'd also have a<br /> strong story to use to raise further recurring donations and awareness<br /></blockquote><br /> ...<br /><br /> Would love to hear further input given the financial implications of<br /><br /> making this decision however.<br /><br /><br /> All that sounds awesome Patrick; thanks for your work on this. Who do<br /> you need to talk to before moving forward on deploying the NoiseTor funds<br /> to spin up another exit node or a bridge?<br /><br /> If it'd be useful, I'd like to help with this; the world needs moar Tor<br /> :-). And<br /> I'd like to leverage everyone's Tor expertise to put together a "best<br /> practices"<br /> guide to try to remove some of the uncertainty re: *exactly* what steps to<br /> go<br /> through to run a node very safely and effectiveley, especially legal<br /> ambiguity<br /> around running an exit node.<br /><br /> --Steve<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;"></blockquote><br /><br /><br /><br /><hr /><br /> tor mailing list<br /> tor@lists.noisebridge.net<br /> <a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/tor">https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/tor</a></blockquote><br /><br /><br /><br /><hr /><br /> tor mailing list<br /> tor@lists.noisebridge.net<br /> <a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/tor">https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/tor</a></blockquote><br /><hr /><br /> tor mailing list<br /> tor@lists.noisebridge.net<br /> <a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/tor">https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/tor</a><br /> <br /></blockquote><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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