BSidesNYC trip report

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+I2P at BSidesNYC
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+    :author: sadie, str4d
+    :date: 2018-02-12
+    :category: meetups
+    :excerpt: {% trans %}Trip report about the I2P meetup at BSidesNYC.{% endtrans %}
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+Sadie and str4d attended BSidesNYC on Saturday January 20th. Thank you to the
+BSides Team for setting such a great conference!
+
+Aside from a few talks, we mostly worked on several goals that we had set for
+the day during the afternoon in the common area at John Jay College.
+
+Our most pressing task was writing the high-level roadmap for 2018, following
+the discussions at 34C3. This has `now been posted`_ - go check it out! We also
+picked up some communication threads that were put aside over the holiday period
+around our nascent Vulnerability Response Process, and getting it into
+"production use".
+
+.. _`now been posted`: {{ url_for('blog_post', slug='2018/02/11/high-level-roadmap') }}
+
+The biggest and most tedious task was working on the information architecture
+for the new I2P website. We have a new logo and front page which was designed
+for us by the team at `Ura Design`_, but have been blocked on figuring out how
+to organise content navigation to create a more user-friendly onboarding
+experience. We finished an initial draft of this, and are now working with Ura
+to finalize it, before beginning work on the remaining design work.
+
+.. _`Ura Design`: https://ura.design
+
+Finally, we discussed ideas for engagement and outreach this year. We agreed it
+would be a good idea to create specific donation tiers, with our existing
+stickers at the lower level, and other rewards for larger donations. Potential
+reward ideas include:
+
+- More sticker variants (e.g. tesselating sticker)
+- T-shirts printed with our new logo
+- Other kinds of merch (hoodies, scarves)
+- Extension idea: Raspberry Pis in custom 3D-printed cases, pre-loaded with I2P!
+  This would require ironing out things like:
+
+  - Having sufficient randomness at boot for generating key material.
+  - Ensuring the hardware can handle sufficient network traffic to be a useful
+    network participant (older Pis had restricted network interface speeds).
+  - Actually making them!
+
+This meetup was a trial run for an idea that we discussed at 34C3: having more
+informal I2P-focused meetups throughout the year. And it worked out well! If you
+are interested in helping to organise a future meetup, please get in touch with
+us. This year I2P developers and community members are attending FOSDEM, HOPE,
+Citizen Lab, and BSidesTO, and likely other events - so we will need lots of new
+stickers!