VPN Community Initiative Village 2022
VPN Village Description
The VPN Community Initiative at Team CommUNITY was formed in 2022 to bring together individuals working across the VPN ecosystem to:
- Build relationships across providers, technologists, academics, digital security specialists and end users to increase communication and collaboration within the sector;
- Further discussions around VPN industry standards to promote user safety and security; and
- Highlight the needs of at-risk users to improve the VPN offerings that address their use cases.
- Event Details**
Workshops & Events
Run Snowflake Proxies and Strengthen Internet Freedom (Workshop)
Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2022
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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 and VPNs (Talk and Q&A)
Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2022
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Getting Started with Outline: Helping your friends and family access the Open Internet (Workshop)
Date: Tuesday, December 6, 2022
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[Daniel LaCosse daniellacos.se/only]:
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
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Everything You Wanted to Know about VPNs, but Were Afraid to Ask (Glitter Meetup)
Date: Thursday, December 8, 2022
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