Tor 的运行很大程度上依赖于我们全球志愿者社区的众多贡献。由于我们都是远程协作，因此对我们来说，抽出时间面对面交流和社交至关重要。定期举行线下聚会对于新志愿者融入社区以及维护社区内现有关系尤为重要。mAs免费翻墙网
我们已经很久没有举行过这样的会议了，因此许多 Tor 社区成员挺身而出，努力组织一次。我们想弄清楚，作为一个社区，我们是否真的能够成功举办这样的会议，需要多少成本，以及我们可以从中吸取哪些经验教训，以供将来举办类似的聚会之用。这篇博文是我们此次会议的经验总结，希望能激励社区成员在未来组织类似的聚会。mAs免费翻墙网
会前
以往的 Tor 会议通常由 Tor 项目公司组织，主要面向员工，同时也邀请一些社区成员参加。这些活动的协调工作通过 Tor 项目渠道进行，并使用 Tor 基础设施。mAs免费翻墙网
如果不用上述任何方式来筹办我们的会议，该如何实现呢？这是我们今年春天构思会议时问自己的问题之一。结果发现，其实并不难，我们结合使用专门的网站、收集参会者信息的表格，以及用于参会者沟通的邮件列表和 Signal 群组。邀请名单包括 Tor 项目的所有核心贡献者，以及社区团队提供的名单。我们认为，如果只邀请那些我们已经有所联系的个人和团体，那么组织一次成功的社区会议会更容易。mAs免费翻墙网
另一个重要问题是如何控制预算，以便让尽可能多的受邀者都能参加。为此，我们选择了丹麦海尔克丹（Hylkedam）作为活动场地，这里也是一年一度的BornHack黑客营的举办地。由于场地内有相当数量的上下铺，所以自带帐篷并非强制要求。我们共同准备了素食早餐、午餐和晚餐。最终，我们以每人200美元的价格，举办了为期三天的交流、会面和社交活动。mAs免费翻墙网
我喜欢每天在开场和闭幕式上，每个人都有机会发言并影响日程安排。我个人也很享受和一些Tor的同学一起做晚餐。这有助于我们建立更深层次的联系！——rgddmAs免费翻墙网
但让人们到场是一回事，而打造一个引人入胜、富有成效的三天活动计划则是完全不同的另一项挑战。mAs免费翻墙网
托尔事件引发了三天的兴奋。
我们参考以往会议和活动中的经验来安排本次聚会的架构：我们通过问卷调查收集了大家对潜在议题和兴趣的反馈，并在早餐和午餐之间安排了三天的结构化会议，下午则留出时间进行非正式的交流和编程。因此，每天的流程遵循以下循环：开幕式 -> 结构化会议 -> 非正式会议 -> 闭幕式，效果相当不错。我们还安排了专门的笔记员负责记录结构化会议的内容，以便感兴趣的人可以在家通过我们网站上的笔记了解会议内容。mAs免费翻墙网
如果我们没有聚在同一个房间里，关于如何让 Tor 共识机制更加稳健透明的讨论可能就不会发生了。我很期待接下来的发展——已经有人在做原型设计了！——rgddmAs免费翻墙网
考虑到参与者的背景各不相同，我们起初有些犹豫，能否为所有人提供一个包容且富有成效的聚会。然而，我们的聚会汇聚了Tor团队、中继运营商以及其他从事Tor及相关领域工作的志愿者，这使得不同主题的合作变得轻松：Tor团队能够提供未来计划和待完成工作的背景信息，供我们共同思考和推进，最终促成了一次高效的会议。通过这种方式，我们能够迅速地讨论各种主题，从目录授权相关的政策，到改进中继运营商的Grafana仪表盘，再到Tor和IPv6以及启动Tor共识透明度工作等等。mAs免费翻墙网
接下来是什么？
这次社区聚会（希望）并非一次性活动，而是一系列类似活动的开端。聚会地点不一定非得在海尔克丹姆（我们也欢迎其他场地！），组织工作也不一定非得是同一批人。所以，如果您对这篇博文的内容感兴趣，并想参与未来的社区聚会，请与我们联系！我们也乐于收到关于这种形式的反馈，以及如何让未来的活动更具吸引力和包容性。想受邀参加吗？请告诉我们！mAs免费翻墙网
下一个加入的好机会是即将举行的混沌通信大会。届时我们将举办中继操作员和社区成员的聚会。如果您在附近并且感兴趣，欢迎前来参加！mAs免费翻墙网
Tor, in no small part, runs on the many contributions from our community of global volunteers. Since we all collaborate remotely, it was important to us to make time to see each other face-to-face and socialize. Having regular real-world meetings is especially crucial for integrating new volunteers into and maintaining existing relationships in our community.mAs免费翻墙网
It's been a while since we last had such a meeting and therefore a bunch of Tor folks stepped up trying to get one organized. We wanted to figure out whether we as a community can actually get such a meeting off the ground, what it would cost and what lessons we could draw for similar gatherings yet to come. This blog post is a report back from our experiences and will hopefully inspire the community to set up similar meet-ups in the future.mAs免费翻墙网
Before the meeting
The Tor meetings in the past have typically been organized by the Tor Project, Inc., focusing on staff while some community members were invited to join. Coordination for those events happened via Tor project channels, using Tor infrastructure.mAs免费翻墙网
How would it work not using any of those means to get our meeting off the ground? That was one of the questions we asked us when we thought about the meeting idea in spring this year. It turned out it was not that hard using a mix of a dedicated website, a form for collecting information about folks who wanted to join and finally a mailing list and Signal group for communication among attendees. On the invitation list were all of the Tor Project's core contributors and a list of people provided by the community team, given that we thought it was easier to organize a successful first community meeting if it would be invite-only including individuals and groups we already have some kind of relationship with.mAs免费翻墙网
The other important question was related to how we could keep the budget low so that as many people on our invitation list as possible could make it. To that effort we used the same venue, Hylkedam in Denmark, where the annual BornHack hacker camp is happening. Bringing along tents was optional as there was a reasonable amount of bunkbeds available. Vegan breakfast, lunch and dinner was prepared together. All in all we ended up at 200$ per person for 3 days of connecting, meeting and socializing.mAs免费翻墙网
I liked how everyone had the chance to speak up and influence the schedule each day during our opening and closing circles. Personally, I also enjoyed cooking dinner with some fellow Tor folks. It helps with bonding on a different level! - rgddmAs免费翻墙网
But getting people to show up was one thing. Creating an engaging, productive three day program was another challenge entirely.mAs免费翻墙网
3 days of excitement about Tor
Preparing the structure of our gathering followed models we saw at previous meetings and events: we polled potential session topics and interests on our form and created structured sessions for the 3 days between breakfast and lunch and kept the afternoons open for ad hoc unstructured sessions and hacking time. Thus, the days followed the following cycle: opening session -> structured sessions -> unstructured sessions -> closing circle, which worked pretty well. We made sure we had note-takers for the structured sessions available so that folks interested could follow along from home by reading the notes on our websitemAs免费翻墙网
Had we not gotten into the same room, our conversations about how to make the Tor consensus more robust with transparency probably wouldn't have happened. I'm looking forward to see what happens next---a few people are prototyping! - rgddmAs免费翻墙网
We were a bit hesitant as to whether we could provide an inclusive and productive gathering for everyone given the different backgrounds of our participants. However, we got a good mix of Tor staff, relay operators and other volunteers working on Tor and in related areas at our gathering, which made the collaboration on different topics easy: the Tor staff was able to provide context on planned future work and missing pieces which we then could think through and work on together, which made a productive meeting for everyone. That way we were able to work on a wide range of topics quickly, from policies related to Directory Authorities over improving Grafana dashboards for relay operators to Tor and IPv6 and starting the Tor consensus transparency efforts, to name just a few.mAs免费翻墙网
What's next?
This community meet-up was (hopefully) not a one-off event, but rather the start of a series of similar ones. They don't have to be at Hylkedam (we'd like to see other venues as well!), nor does it have to be the same group of people sharing the organization workload. Thus, if you are excited about what you read in this blog post and want to help out with future community gatherings, get in touch! We'd be happy as well to get feedback about this format and how we can make such events more inviting and inclusive in the future. Want to be invited, too? Let us know!mAs免费翻墙网
A good next opportunity to get in tough will be a at the upcoming Chaos Communication Congress. We'll have a relay-operator and community meet-up. Please drop by if you are around and interested!mAs免费翻墙网
