VPN Community Initiative Village 2022

VPN Village Description

The VPN Village is a two-week virtual series of events focused on VPN user education and solidarity. The events held over the last week of November and first week of December will address gaps in user education around VPNs, the challenge of analyzing and selecting a VPN, and will show attendees how to set up their own VPN servers and proxies to support their communities and users combatting censorship globally.

The Village is part of the TCU’s VPN Community Initiativeat Team CommUNITY was formed in 2022 to bring together a diverse group of individuals working within and around the VPN ecosystem - including providers, researchers, digital security specialists and technologists - to collaborate and share knowledge.

Workshops & Events

Run Snowflake Proxies and Strengthen Internet Freedom (Workshop)

Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Time: 14:00 - 15:00 UTC / 9:00 - 10:30 EST ([What time is it in my city?])
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Summary: Have you considered helping users from censored regions to access the free and open internet? Snowflake is a new pluggable transport that allows people from all over the world to access the open internet.

In this workshop, you will learn what Snowflake is, and how to set up a proxy and help censored users bypass internet censorship.
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Gus:
Works as Community Team Lead at the Tor Project.

Threat Modeling 101: Understanding When to Use or Not Use a VPN (Talk and Q&A)

Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Time: 13:30 - 15:00 UTC / 8:30 - 10:00 EST ([What time is it in my city?])
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Getting Started with Outline: Helping your friends and family access the Open Internet (Workshop)

Date: Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Time: 14:30 - 16:00 UTC / 9:30 - 11:00 EST ([What time is it in my city?])
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Daniel LaCosse:
Daniel LaCosse is an engineer on the Outline Team who's previous work includes a TEDx talk on the logic of storytelling and building the Vine web player from scratch (RIP). He spends his free time improvising board games and trying to convince random strangers they should only be building their apps on web.

Vinicius Fortuna:
Vinicius Fortuna is the engineering lead of the team at Jigsaw that protects people’s ability to participate in the global internet. He has led the team through initiatives to prevent censorship via stronger internet standards and platforms; mitigate censorship via circumvention tools such as the Outline VPN and Intra; and expose censorship via measurements and data analysis.

How to Critically Choose a VPN (Talk and Q&A)

Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Time: 15:00 - 16:00 UTC / 10:00 - 11:00 EST ([What time is it in my city?])
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Everything You Wanted to Know about VPNs, but Were Afraid to Ask (Glitter Meetup)

Date: Thursday, December 8, 2022
Time: 15:00 - 16:00 UTC / 10:00 - 11:00 EST ([What time is it in my city?])
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