Iain Learmonth

The goals of a privacy and anonymity network like Tor are not easily combined with extensive data gathering, but at the same time data is needed for monitoring, understanding, and improving the network. The Tor Metrics team collects data and analyses the public Tor network. This talk will discuss safety principles that are followed, the tooling and workflows used, and also share some plans for future work to further enhance safety of data collection.

Use of real-time communications (voice, video and chat) in free software communities.

Many communities have started running some kind of RTC infrastructure, such as Debian (SIP, XMPP and WebRTC), GNOME (XMPP) and the FedRTC.org service for Fedora (SIP, WebRTC). Some other communities are still debating the concept or trying to decide where to start. This session will look at questions like: where do we start? What is the support overhead? Can we do multi-party video calling entirely with free software? Is federation feasible, functional and worthwhile? How can this type of communication strengthen the connection people have with the community and their participation in the long term? How can the pub/sub and notification features of these services integrate with automated systems, such as FedMsg in Fedora?