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 TCU’s VPN Community Initiative which 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?)
Speaker: Gustavo Gus, Community Team Lead, Tor Project

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.

RSVP & learn more how to run a Snowflake proxy

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?)
Speakers:
Vinicius Fortuna, Staff Software Engineer, Google
Daniel LaCosse, Google

Outline is an industry-leading, high performance solution for protecting your online activity. it relies on members of the community to spin up and manage their own VPN servers for others to use - and its Manager software makes it quite straightforward. In this 1.5 hour workshop, participants will learn about what Outline is and how it works, and will then learn how to set up their own Outline VPN server.

RSVP & learn how to set up an Outline VPN server

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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