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[OnionMasq](https://gitlab.torproject.org/ahf/onionmasq) is an experimental tunnel interface for Arti.\\n\\n  * **Expected outcome:** OnionMasq can use these pluggable transports and offer this kind of censorship circumvention in Arti\\n\\n  - **Funding Need:** See note below.\\n\\n## Increase Tor availability and usability where it's needed most\\n\\n**Goal 14:**\\n   - **Description:** Hire a new User Research Coordinator (filling an existing role)\\n  * **Expected outcome:** We have made an offer to a User Research Coordinator who can pick up our planned user research work\\n  - **Funding Need:** See note below.\\n\\n**Goal 15:**\\n\\n   - **Description:** Onboard new Product Designer (filling an existing role)\\n  * **Expected outcome:** We have onboarded our new Product Designer who will be able to pick up our planned product design work\\n  - **Funding Need:** See note below.\\n\\n**Goal 16:**\\n   - **Description:** Localize user support documents in Farsi\\n  * **Expected outcome:** Users in Farsi-speaking countries will be able to use Tor tools more easily because our support documentation is available in their language\\n  - **Funding Need:** See note below.\\n\\n## Continue tool maintenance and fundraising\\n\\n**Goal 17:**\\n\\n   - **Description:** General Tor Browser maintenance work that ensures continuous improvement for security and user experience.\\n\\n  * **Expected outcome:** Monthly security, maintenance, and bug fix updates, Tor Browser for Android code improvements for maintainability and parity with Tor Browser for desktop, Bug Bounty Program - tor.browser.org security feedback, OpenH264 Build Reproducibility\\n\\n  - **Funding Need:** See note below.\\n\\n## Raise funds for the Tor Project\\n\\n**Goal 18:**\\n\\n   - **Description:** Deploy a new version of the Tor Project’s donate page (https://donate.torproject.org)\\n\\n  * **Expected outcome:** Donation web infrastructure that is easier to maintain and modify and is easier to use for donors\\n\\n  - **Funding Need:** See note below.\\n\\n**Goal 19:**\\n\\n   - **Description:** Improve search and sharing content from the Tor Project’s blog (https://blog.torproject.org)\\n\\n  * **Expected outcome:** Users will be able to search for and share content from the Tor Project blog\\n\\n  - **Funding Need:** See note below.\\n\\n**Goal 20:**\\n   - **Description:** Execution of the Tor Project’s annual fundraising campaign\\n  * **Expected outcome:** Raise approx. ~$600K+ from individual donors through a comprehensive annual fundraising effort\\n  - **Funding Need:** See note below.\\n\\nRegarding funding needed: Right now, as an organization with ~15 ongoing grants and 60+ staff who work on projects in an overlapping way, most of the projects that contain the goals above are partially funded by one or multiple grants, and the gaps in funding are covered by unrestricted funding, like that raised through Octant allocations. In total, we have roughly $1.4M left to raise for the 2024-2025 fiscal year.\\n\\n## Other Funding\\n\\n* Grant Funding Received Since the Last Epoch:\\n  * New grant from [Open Society Foundation](https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/)\\n  * New grant from [Open Sats](https://opensats.org/)\\n* Other Non-Grant Funding Sources:\\n  * Individual donations\\n  * Corporate donations and/or memberships\\n\\n## Future Plans for Financial Sustainability\\n\\nIn order to increase our unrestricted funding, we have increased our Fundraising team from two people to four people this year.\\n\\nThe first new position for the Tor Project, Individual Giving Manager, will be focused exclusively on cultivating the 6,000+ donors who give below $1000 every year. Before now, very little attention has been paid to this donor group outside of one fundraising campaign per year due to capacity limitations. With the Individual Giving Manager designing and executing a strategy focused on keeping these donors onboard and increasing their gifts over time, we’re increasing our investment in raising unrestricted funds.\\n\\nThe second position is that of Grant Writer, who will be responsible for increasing our grant writing capacity and allowing the Director of Fundraising to focus on other opportunities for unrestricted funding, including gifts from corporations, major donors, and private foundations that make unrestricted gifts.\\n\\nIncreased unrestricted funding from these fundraising efforts will take several years to come to fruition, so it’s important that we invest in them now.\",\"linkToProposal\":\"https://discuss.octant.app/t/the-tor-project-building-decentralized-privacy-infrastructure-tools/64/7?u=smith.a\",\"title\":\"Octant - Epoch 5\",\"milestones\":[],\"community\":\"0xcb67cd16cbdf4e9c3b6ed4c8f9424411a48be796d690750afc84f9288e7c7996\",\"recipient\":\"0x15c941a44a343b8c46a28f2bb9afc7a54e255a4f\",\"grantUpdate\":\"\",\"questions\":[],\"startDate\":1730444400,\"programId\":\"548_42161\",\"fundUsage\":\"\",\"proposalURL\":\"https://discuss.octant.app/t/the-tor-project-building-decentralized-privacy-infrastructure-tools/64/7?u=smith.a\",\"payoutAddress\":\"0x15c941a44a343B8c46a28F2BB9aFc7a54E255A4f\"}"}}]