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[tor-project] Re: Tor Project + SEEKCommons Fellowship Opportunity Now Available for 2025!



Hello,

Just a friendly reminder that the application deadline is December
15, 2025 aka this Sunday.

Please share with your colleagues.

Best,
Gus 

On Sat, Nov 09, 2024 at 08:02:31AM -0300, gus wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm writing to let you know that applications are now open for the
> second SEEKCommons Fellowship[1] cohort. 
> 
> The SEEKCommons Fellowship program is funded by NSF and run by partners
> at University of Notre Dame, University of California Davis, University
> of Michigan, University of Virginia, and The HDF Group. The goal of the
> fellowship is to bring graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and
> professionals from community-based organizations with new perspectives
> to socio-environmental research with open technologies. 
> 
> Application deadline is Dec. 15, 2024.
> 
> The fellowship is designed to:
>  - Encourage new translational and integrative work involving
>    socio-environmental action research with Open Science practices;
>  - Provide a space for Fellows and Network members to collaborate on
>    common research issues, challenges, and solutions.
> 
> Fellows may be:
>  - Graduate students working with open technologies on
>    socio-environmental issues;
>  - Post-docs with existing community projects in Science and Technology
>    Studies, Open Science, and/or Socio-environmental research; and/or
>  - Community practitioners who are interested in integrating common
>    technologies into their environmental justice work.
> 
> The SEEKCommons website contains all the necessary fellowship
> information, including the application link.
> https://seekcommons.org/fellowship-application.html
> 
> Partnership SEEKCommons + Tor Project
> =====================================
> 
> This year SEEKCommons is reserving one fellowship to sustainability
> studies of community networks in partnership with the Tor Project!
> 
> We welcome Fellowship applications on the sustainability of the Tor
> network with a focus on energy consumption and relay metadata (such as
> ASN, uptime, and platform). The goal of the partnership between
> SEEKCommons and Tor is to study the environmental impact of community
> networks and promote the use of renewable energy in decentralized
> infrastructures.
> 
> We would like to support applications that address one (or more) of these questions:
> 
>  - What Free and Open Source technologies can be used to promote a more
>    sustainable and distributed Tor infrastructure?
>  - How can the energy consumption of the Tor network be measured and
>    optimized to reduce its environmental impact?
>  - How can the "Tor Snowflake" decentralized proxy model be used to
>    improve the sustainability of the network?
>  - How can we use metadata from relays (e.g., ASN / uptime / platform)
>    to assess the environmental impact of the network?
>  - What open hardware and renewable energy sources could be used/reused
>    in the Tor network?
> 
> More information: https://seekcommons.org/partnership-tor.html
> 
> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out.
> 
> Thank you so much!
> 
> Warmly,
> Gus
> 
> [1] https://seekcommons.org/about.html
> -- 
> The Tor Project
> Community Team Lead



-- 
The Tor Project
Community Team Lead

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