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9) <h2>Tor: People</h2>

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14) <h3>Sections</h3>

15) <ul>
16) <li><a href="<page people>#Core">Core Tor People</a></li>
17) <li><a href="<page people>#Board">Board of Directors</a></li>
18) <li><a href="<page people>#Translators">Translators</a></li>
19) <li><a href="<page people>#Volunteers">Volunteers</a></li>
20) <li><a href="<page people>#Past">Past Contributors</a></li>
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24) 

25) <p>The Tor Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in

26) the United States. The official address of the organization is:
27) </p>

28) 
29) <address>
30) The Tor Project<br />

31) 969 Main Street, Suite 206<br />
32) Walpole, MA 02081 USA<br /><br />

33) </address>

34) 

35) <p>The organization consists of many volunteers and a few employees.

36) Please don't contact us individually about Tor topics — if you
37) have a problem or question, please look through the <a href="<page

38) contact>">contact page</a> for appropriate addresses.</p>

39) 

40) <div class="underline"></div>

41) <a id="Core"></a>
42) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#Core">Core Tor people:</a></h3>

43) 
44) <dl>

45) <dt>Carolyn Anhalt (Community and Translation
46) Coordinator)</dt><dd>Responsible for growing Tor's community moderators
47) and translators.</dd>

48) 
49) <dt>Jacob Appelbaum (Developer and Advocate)</dt><dd>Runs
50) the <a href="https://check.torproject.org/">Tor DNSEL</a> <a
51) href="http://exitlist.torproject.org/">site</a>, and also the in-progress
52) Tor weather site.</dd>
53) 
54) <dt>Erinn Clark (Packaging and Build Automation)</dt><dd>Erinn is tackling
55) the growing needs for easy to install and configure packages on a variety
56) of operating systems.  Also working on automating the build system and

57) producing nightly builds for all operating systems we support.</dd>

58) 

59) <dt>Christopher Davis</dt><dd>Worked during Google Summer of Code 2009
60) on porting Polipo to Windows and on helping with the libevent bufferevent
61) code. Now he's the Polipo maintainer.</dd>

62) 

63) <dt>Roger Dingledine (Project Leader; Director)</dt><dd>Original

64) developer of Tor; now plays pretty much all the roles to keep everything
65) on track.</dd>
66) 
67) <dt>Matt Edman (Developer)</dt><dd>Lead developer for <a href="<page
68) vidalia/index>">Vidalia</a>, a cross-platform Tor GUI included in the
69) Windows and OS X bundles.</dd>
70) 

71) <dt>Christian Fromme (Developer)</dt><dd>Christian works on all things

72) python for Tor.  He enhanced and maintains a slew of codebases for us,
73) such as the get-tor email auto-responder, check.torproject.org, bridge
74) db, tor weather, tor controller, tor flow, etc.</dd>
75) 

76) <dt>Melissa Gilroy (CFO and Internal Audit)</dt><dd>With a strong

77) background in non-profit accounting and auditing, Melissa is in charge of
78) Tor's finances, audit compliance, and keeping Tor's financial operations
79) moving along.</dd>
80) 
81) <dt>Sebastian Hahn</dt><dd> Worked during the 2008 Google Summer of
82) Code on a networking application to automatically carry out tests for
83) Tor and during the 2009 Google Summer of Code on expanding Thandy to

84) include BitTorrent support. Generally helps out a lot.</dd>

85) 

86) <dt>Andrew Lewman (Executive Director; Director; <a href="<page
87) press/index>">press contact</a>)</dt><dd>Manages the business operations

88) of The Tor Project, Inc.  Plays roles of finance, advocacy, project

89) management, and general support.  General package hacker for Windows,
90) OS X, and various linux distributions.</dd>
91) 
92) <dt>Karsten Loesing (Developer)</dt><dd>
93) Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of Code on <a

94) href="<gitblob>doc/spec/proposals/114-distributed-storage.txt">distributing

95) and securing the publishing and fetching of hidden
96) service descriptors</a>. Currently working on <a href="<page
97) projects/hidserv>">making hidden services faster and more reliable</a>,

98) and on <a href="http://metrics.torproject.org/">metrics</a>.</dd>

99) 

100) <dt>Nick Mathewson (Chief architect; Director)</dt><dd>One of the
101) three original designers of Tor; does a lot of the ongoing design work.
102) One of the two main developers, along with Roger.</dd>

103) 

104) <dt>Steven Murdoch (Researcher and Developer)</dt><dd>Researcher at

105) the University of Cambridge, currently funded by The Tor Project to
106) improve the security, performance, and usability of Tor. Creator of the

107) <a href="<page torbrowser/index>">Tor Browser Bundle</a>.</dd>

108) 
109) <dt>Peter Palfrader</dt><dd>Manages the Debian packages, runs one of
110) the directory authorities, runs the website and the wiki, and generally
111) helps out a lot.</dd>
112) 

113) <dt>Mike Perry (Developer)</dt><dd>Author of <a

114) href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/torflow/trunk/README">TorFlow</a>,
115) a Tor controller that builds paths through the Tor network and measures
116) various properties and behaviors, and new author of <a href="<page
117) torbutton/index>">Torbutton</a>.</dd>
118) 

119) <dt>Karen Reilly (Development Director)</dt><dd>Responsible for

120) fundraising, advocacy, and general marketing and outreach programs
121) for Tor.</dd>
122) 

123) <dt>Runa A. Sandvik</dt><dd>Maintains the <a

124) href="https://translation.torproject.org/">Tor Translation
125) Portal</a>, and works on automatically converting our website wml
126) files to po files (and back) so that they can be handled by <a
127) href="http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/index">Pootle</a>.</dd>

128) 

129) <dt>Paul Syverson</dt><dd>Inventor of <a
130) href="http://www.onion-router.net/">Onion Routing</a>, original designer
131) of Tor along with Roger and Nick, and project leader for original design,

132) development, and deployment of Tor. Currently helps out with research
133) and design.</dd>

134) </dl>
135) 

136) <div class="underline"></div>

137) <a id="Board"></a>
138) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#Board">The Tor Project Board of
139) Directors:</a></h3>

140) 
141) <dl>

142) <dt>Meredith Hoban Dunn (Director)</dt><dd>Our audit committee chair. Her
143) role is to help us make sure we're able to pass our upcoming corporate
144) audits correctly, watch for internal fraud, tell us when we're doing
145) things in a non-standard way, and so on.</dd>

146) 

147) <dt>Ian Goldberg (Director)</dt><dd>Cryptographer,
148) privacy expert, and professor; one of the designers of <a
149) href="http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/">Off-the-Record Messaging</a>.</dd>

150) 
151) <dt>Xianghui (Isaac) Mao (Director)</dt><dd>Chinese blogging
152) and privacy activist.  His current activities can be found at <a

153) href="http://isaacmao.com/">his website</a>.</dd>

154) 
155) <dt>Frank Rieger (Director)</dt><dd>CTO of <a
156) href="http://www.gsmk.de/">GSMK Cryptophone</a>.</dd>
157) 

158) <dt>Wendy Seltzer (Director)</dt><dd>Lawyer,

159) cyberlaw professor, and founder of <a

160) href="http://chillingeffects.org/">ChillingEffects.org</a>.</dd>

161) 

162) <dt>Along with Roger, Nick, and Andrew listed above as Directors.</dt>

163) </dl>
164) 

165) <div class="underline"></div>

166) <a id="Translators"></a>
167) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#Translators">Core translators:</a></h3>

168) 
169) <dl>

170) <dt>Bogdan Drozdowski</dt><dd><a

171) href="https://www.torproject.org/index.html.pl">Polish</a>.</dd>

172) <dt>Tiago Faria</dt><dd>Portuguese.</dd>

173) <dt>fredzupy</dt><dd><a

174) href="https://www.torproject.org/index.html.fr">French</a>.</dd>

175) <dt>Ruben Garcia, plus further pages by <a
176) href="http://www.greentranslations.com/">Green Crescent</a></dt><dd><a

177) href="https://www.torproject.org/index.html.es">Spanish</a>.</dd>

178) <dt>Jens Kubieziel and Oliver Knapp</dt><dd><a

179) href="https://www.torproject.org/index.html.de">German</a>.</dd>

180) <dt>Pei Hanru and bridgefish</dt><dd><a

181) href="https://www.torproject.org/index.html.zh-cn">Simplified Chinese</a>.</dd>

182) <dt>Jan Reister</dt><dd><a

183) href="https://www.torproject.org/index.html.it">Italian</a>.</dd>

184) <dt>Masaki Taniguchi</dt><dd><a

185) href="https://www.torproject.org/index.html.ja">Japanese</a>.</dd>

186) <dt>Jan Woning</dt><dd><a

187) href="https://www.torproject.org/index.html.nl">Dutch</a>.</dd>

188) <dt>ygrek</dt><dd><a

189) href="https://www.torproject.org/index.html.ru">Russian</a>.</dd>

190) </dl>
191) 

192) <div class="underline"></div>

193) <a id="Volunteers"></a>
194) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#Volunteers">More volunteers:</a></h3>

195) 
196) <dl>

197) <dt>Anonym</dt><dd>Maintainer of the Incognito LiveCD.</dd>

198) <dt>Kevin Bankston</dt><dd>EFF lawyer who helped write the <a

199) href="<page eff/tor-legal-faq>">Tor Legal FAQ</a> and

200) tirelessly answers the phone when somebody in the world has a legal
201) question about Tor.</dd>

202) <dt>Kasimir Gabert</dt><dd>Maintains the <a
203) href="https://torstatus.kgprog.com/">TorStatus</a> statistics pages.</dd>

204) <dt>Robert Hogan</dt><dd>Developer for the <a
205) href="http://tork.sf.net/">TorK</a> Tor controller.</dd>

206) <dt>Damian Johnson</dt><dd>Builds a command-line application for monitoring
207) Tor relays, providing real-time status information such as the current
208) configuration, bandwidth usage, message log, etc. (<a

209) href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/arm/trunk/README">code</a>).</dd>

210) <dt>Fabian Keil</dt><dd>One of the core Privoxy developers, and also a
211) Tor fan. He's the reason Tor and Privoxy still work well together.</dd>

212) <dt>Kory Kirk</dt><dd>Worked during Google Summer of Code 2009 on
213) extending Torbutton. Now he's working with Bruce Leidl on a Tor client
214) in Java.</dd>
215) <dt>Bruce Leidl</dt><dd>Working on a Tor client in Java.</dd>

216) <dt>Julius Mittenzwei</dt><dd>A lawyer with the CCC in
217) Germany. Coordinates the German Tor community with respect to legal
218) questions and concerns.</dd>

219) <dt>Shava Nerad</dt><dd>Our former Development Director. She still works
220) on PR and community relations.</dd>

221) <dt>Lasse &Oslash;verlier</dt><dd>Writes research papers on Tor: attacks,

222) defenses, and resource management, especially for hidden services.</dd>

223) <dt>Martin Peck</dt><dd>Working on a VM-based transparent
224) proxying approach for Tor clients on Windows.</dd>

225) <dt>rovv (a pseudonym -- he's managed to stay anonymous even from
226) us!)</dt><dd>The most dedicated bug reporter we've ever heard from. He
227) must read Tor source code every day over breakfast.</dd>
228) <dt>tup (another pseudonym)</dt><dd>Periodically adds new features for
229) making Tor easier to use as a <a

230) href="https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TransparentProxy">transparent
231) proxy</a>. Also maintains the <a

232) href="http://p56soo2ibjkx23xo.onion/">TorDNSEL code</a>.</dd>

233) <dt>Kyle Williams</dt><dd>Developer for
234) JanusVM, a VMWare-based
235) transparent Tor proxy that makes Tor easier to set up and use.</dd>

236) <dt>Ethan Zuckerman</dt><dd>A blogger who has written some
237) <a href="http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1019">interesting</a>
238) <a href="http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/tools/guide/">tutorials</a>

239) for how, when, and whether to use Tor. He also teaches activists around
240) the world about Tor and related tools.</dd>

241) <dt>All our relay operators, people who write <a

242) href="http://freehaven.net/anonbib/">research papers</a> about Tor,

243) people who teach others about Tor, etc.</dt>

244) </dl>
245) 

246) <div class="underline"></div>

247) <a id="Past"></a>
248) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#Past">Past thanks to:</a></h3>

249) 
250) <dl>

251) <dt>John Bashinski</dt><dd> Contributed the initial rpm spec file.</dd>

252) <dt>Domenik Bork</dt><dd> Worked on
253) Configuration of Hidden Services with User Authorization in Vidalia (<a
254) href="http://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/branches/hidden-services">svn</a>) as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>

255) <dt>Benedikt Boss</dt><dd>Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of Code on <a

256) href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/topf/trunk/README">TOPF</a>,

257) a fuzzer for Tor; mentored by Roger.</dd>

258) <dt>Ren Bucholz</dt><dd>Our fine logo and images.</dd>

259) <dt>Fallon Chen</dt><dd> Worked on
260) Improving Tor Path Selection (<a

261) href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/torflow/branches/gsoc2008/">svn</a>)
262) and <a

263) href="<gitblob>doc/spec/proposals/151-path-selection-improvements.txt">proposal

264) 151</a> as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>

265) <dt>Bram Cohen</dt><dd>Helped design our congestion control mechanisms,
266) in Tor's early days.</dd>

267) <dt>Pat Double</dt><dd>Creator of the Incognito LiveCD.</dd>

268) <dt>Geoff Goodell</dt><dd>Started the <a
269) href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/blossom/trunk/">Blossom project</a>
270) which uses Tor as its overlay network; also helped motivate Tor's control
271) interface to be as flexible as it is.</dd>
272) <dt>Aleksei Gorny</dt><dd> Working on
273) Tor exit scanner improvements (<a
274) href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/torflow/branches/gsoc2008/">svn</a>), originally started as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>

275) <dt>Christian Grothoff</dt><dd> Contributed better daemonizing behavior.</dd>
276) <dt>Steven Hazel</dt><dd> Made 'make install' do the right thing.</dd>

277) <dt>Justin Hipple</dt><dd>The other developer for Vidalia.</dd>

278) <dt>Jason Holt</dt><dd> Contributed patches to the instructions and the man
279) page.</dd>

280) <dt>Christian King</dt><dd> Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of Code
281) on making Tor relays stable on
282) Windows, by developing a <a

283) href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/libevent-urz/trunk/README">buffer

284) implementation for libevent</a>; mentored by Nick.</dd>

285) <dt>Joe Kowalski</dt><dd>Original author and provider of the torstatus

286) script formerly run on nighteffect.</dd>

287) <dt>Adam Langley</dt><dd>Our fine eventdns code.</dd>

288) <dt>Rebecca MacKinnon</dt><dd>Former Director of Tor.  Co-Founder of <a

289) href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/">Global Voices Online</a>.</dd>

290) <dt>Chris Palmer</dt><dd>Our liaison and tech guy with EFF while EFF
291) was funding us. Also helped advocate and write end-user docs.</dd>

292) <dt>Matej Pfajfar</dt><dd>Author of the original onion routing code that
293) Tor is based on, so we didn't have to start from scratch.</dd>

294) <dt>Johannes Renner</dt><dd> Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of
295) Code on modifying <a

296) href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/torflow/trunk/README">TorFlow</a>

297) to measure various properties of the Tor network; mentored by Mike
298) Perry.</dd>
299) <dt>Scott Squires</dt><dd>The original developer of <a

300) href="<page torbutton/index>">Torbutton</a>.</dd>

301) <dt>Aaron Turner</dt><dd> Contributed the first version of the tor.sh
302) initscripts shell script.</dd>
303) <dt>Stephen Tyree</dt><dd> Worked during Google Summer of Code 2009 to

304) develop a plugin API for <a href="<page vidalia/index>">Vidalia</a>
305) and create a plugin to allow HerdictWeb integration, a project aiming
306) at identifying website inaccessibility using user submissions.</dd>

307) <dt>Camilo Viecco</dt><dd> Worked on
308) Providing Blossom functionality to Vidalia (<a
309) href="http://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/branches/exit-country">svn</a>) as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>

310) <dt>Fred von Lohmann</dt><dd>Fred served on our Board of Directors
311) from 2006 through 2009.   His complete bio can be found at the <a
312) href="http://www.eff.org/about/staff/?f=fred_von_lohmann.html">EFF
313) Staff Site</a>.</dd>

314) <dt>Christian Wilms</dt><dd> Worked on
315) Performance Enhancing Measures for Tor Hidden Services (<a
316) href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tor/branches/hidserv-perf/">svn</a>) as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>

317) <dt>Jillian C. York</dt><dd><a href="http://jilliancyork.com/">Jillian
318) C. York</a> is a writer, blogger, and activist based in
319) Boston.  She blogs on the uses of Tor and anonymity at <a
320) href="http://www.knightpulse.org/blog/tor">KnightPulse</a>.</dd>

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