Re: [tor-relays] EFF's university Tor relay campaign
On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 03:19:06AM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote: > EFF has launched their advocacy campaign for getting more Tor relays > running at universities: > > https://toruniversity.eff.org/ Cooper has posted an update on how the campaign is going: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/tor-university-challenge-first-semester-report-card Highlights include: * we have made contact with more already-existing relays at universities, * we now have some new relays running at universities, * and we have made better contact with European NRENs (the national-level university internet connectivity organizations), particularly the ones in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Greece. > So: if you are at a university, or you know somebody who is and want to > help them, please consider setting up relays there. It can be anything > from an exit relay (the most useful to Tor users, but the most work in > terms of local advocacy and relationship-building), to a non-exit relay > (still very useful to Tor users, because we need more network diversity), > to a non-NATed Snowflake bridge (currently used most by people in Iran > to get around their censorship and reach the Tor network). This part is still true! No time like the present to get involved. :) --Roger ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] EFF's university Tor relay campaign
On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 11:18:46AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Yes, I do! > > Please add to the list: > > Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México > > We have been running two relays since 2017/2018, and enabled two additional > relays (in the same VM / IP address) recently. Awesome! I will pass your contact info to Cooper, who will add you to the internal lists he is tracking. I missed some relays-running-at-educational-institutions on the first pass, because we don't have an easy way to look up "which relays are at universities?" If anybody wants to help work on that, it's https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/relay-search/-/issues/40022 We also have a handful of known great relay operators, such as the ones run by ibiblio at UNC and a few in Germany, who didn't answer my mails yet and I expect that eventually we will add them. Cooper showed me the beautiful shiny challenge coins that he made to send to university relay operators. They are a work of art. I believe his plan is to send them to people once their relay has been up for a year, i.e. some people qualify already but the people who newly start a relay in response to this EFF campaign will have to keep it going for a while to earn the shiny object. :) --Roger ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] EFF's university Tor relay campaign
Roger Dingledine dijo [Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 03:19:06AM -0400]: > (...) > We started the campaign with thirteen institutions that are already > running relays and/or other public infrastructure pieces: > > Technical University Berlin (Germany) > Boston University (US) > University of Cambridge (England) > Carnegie Melon University (US) > University College London (England) > Georgetown University (US) > Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (Austria) > Karlstad University (Sweden) > KU Leuven (Belgium) > University of Michigan (US) > University of Minnesota (US) > Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US) > University of Waterloo (Canada) > > Hopefully this list will make you impressed / excited / jealous and you > will want to get your university onto it. :) Yes, I do! Please add to the list: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México We have been running two relays since 2017/2018, and enabled two additional relays (in the same VM / IP address) recently. > Later steps in the campaign will be to understand which universities > have IT departments that understand and value Tor, and which ones try > to block you from using Tor on their network or block Tor users from > reaching their webservers. We are also imagining to do an OONI workshop > to help people do "how well does Tor work on this network" tests. Our university is very, very big (>350,000 students), and runs somewhat as a federations of faculties and research centers, so yo will find friendly and hostile network administrators (as well as friendly and hostile administrators) throughout. Greetings, signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
