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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>#Summer">Summer Students</a></li>
19) <li><a href="<page people>#Translators">Translators</a></li>
20) <li><a href="<page people>#Volunteers">Volunteers</a></li>
21) <li><a href="<page people>#Past">Past Contributors</a></li>
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25) 

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

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

29) 
30) <address>
31) The Tor Project<br />
32) 122 Scott Circle<br />

33) Dedham, MA 02026-6416 USA<br /><br />

34) </address>

35) 

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

37) Please don't contact us individually about Tor topics — if

38) you have a problem or question, please look through the <a href="<page
39) contact>">contact page</a> for appropriate addresses.</p>

40) 

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

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

44) 
45) <dl>

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

49) <dt>Jacob Appelbaum (Developer and Advocate)</dt><dd>Runs the <a

50) href="https://check.torproject.org/">Tor DNSEL</a> <a

51) href="http://exitlist.torproject.org/">site</a>, and also

52) the in-progress Tor weather site.</dd>

53) <dt>Erinn Clark (Packaging and Build Automation)</dt><dd>Erinn is tackling the
54) growing needs for easy to install and configure packages on a variety of
55) operating systems.  Also working on automating the build system and

56) producing nightly builds for all operating systems we support.</dd>
57) <dt>Christopher Davis</dt><dd>Worked during Google Summer of Code 2009
58) on porting Polipo to Windows and on helping with the libevent bufferevent
59) code. Now he's the Polipo maintainer.</dd>

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

61) developer of Tor; now plays pretty much all the roles to keep

62) everything on track.</dd>

63) <dt>Matt Edman (Developer)</dt><dd>Lead developer for <a

64) href="<page vidalia/index>">Vidalia</a>, a cross-platform Tor GUI

65) included in the Windows and OS X bundles.</dd>

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

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

70) <dt>Melissa Gilroy (CFO and Internal Audit)</dt><dd>With a strong
71) background in non-profit accounting and auditing, Melissa is in charge
72) of Tor's finances, audit compliance, and keeping Tor's financial
73) operations moving along.</dd>

74) <dt>Sebastian Hahn</dt><dd> Worked during the 2008 Google
75) Summer of Code on a networking application to automatically carry out

76) tests for Tor and during the 2009 Google Summer of Code on expanding Thandy to
77) include BitTorrent support. Generally helps out a lot.</dd>

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

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

81) management, and general support.  General package hacker for Windows, OS

82) X, and various linux distributions.</dd>

83) <dt>Karsten Loesing (Developer)</dt><dd> Worked during the 2007 Google
84) Summer of Code on <a

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

86) and securing the publishing and fetching of hidden service

87) descriptors</a>. Currently working on <a href="<page
88) projects/hidserv>">making hidden services faster and more

89) reliable</a>, and on <a href="<page
90) projects/metrics>">metrics</a>.</dd>

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

94) <dt>Steven Murdoch (Researcher and Developer)</dt><dd>Researcher at
95) the University

96) of Cambridge, currently funded by The Tor Project to improve

97) the security, performance, and usability of Tor. Creator of the

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

99) <dt>Peter Palfrader</dt><dd>Manages the Debian packages,

100) runs one of the directory authorities, runs the website and the wiki,

101) and generally helps out a lot.</dd>

102) <dt>Martin Peck (Developer)</dt><dd>Working on a VM-based transparent
103) proxying approach for Tor clients on Windows.</dd>
104) <dt>Mike Perry (Developer)</dt><dd>Author of <a

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

106) controller that builds paths through the Tor network and

107) measures various properties and behaviors, and new author of <a
108) href="<page torbutton/index>">Torbutton</a>.</dd>

109) <dt>Karen Reilly (Development Director)</dt><dd>Responsible for
110) fundraising, advocacy, and general marketing and outreach programs for
111) Tor.</dd>

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

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

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

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

122) </dl>
123) 

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

125) <a id="Board"></a>
126) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#Board">The Tor Project Board of
127) Directors:</a></h3>

128) 
129) <dl>

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

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

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

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

140) <dt>Frank Rieger (Director)</dt><dd>CTO of <a href="http://www.gsmk.de/">GSMK

141) Cryptophone</a>.</dd>

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

143) cyberlaw professor, and founder of <a

144) href="http://chillingeffects.org/">ChillingEffects.org</a>.</dd>
145) <dt>Fred von Lohmann (Director)</dt><dd>Fred is a Senior

146) Intellectual Property Attorney at the Electronic Frontier
147) Foundation (EFF). His complete bio can be found at the <a

148) href="http://www.eff.org/about/staff/?f=fred_von_lohmann.html">EFF
149) Staff Site</a>.</dd>

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

151) </dl>
152) 

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

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

156) 
157) <dl>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

178) </dl>
179) 

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

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

183) 
184) <dl>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

230) </dl>
231) 

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

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

235) 
236) <dl>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

250) 151</a> as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>

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

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

254) <dt>Geoff Goodell</dt><dd>Started the <a
255) href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/blossom/trunk/">Blossom project</a>
256) which uses Tor as its overlay network; also helped motivate Tor's control
257) interface to be as flexible as it is.</dd>
258) <dt>Aleksei Gorny</dt><dd> Working on
259) Tor exit scanner improvements (<a
260) 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>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

293) <dt>Camilo Viecco</dt><dd> Worked on
294) Providing Blossom functionality to Vidalia (<a
295) href="http://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/branches/exit-country">svn</a>) as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>
296) <dt>Christian Wilms</dt><dd> Worked on
297) Performance Enhancing Measures for Tor Hidden Services (<a
298) href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tor/branches/hidserv-perf/">svn</a>) as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>

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

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