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9) <h2>Tor: People</h2>
10) <hr />
11) 

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

13) the United States. The official address of the organization is:<br>

14) <blockquote>
15) The Tor Project<br>
16) 122 Scott Circle<br>
17) Dedham, MA  02026 USA<br>
18) </blockquote>

19) 

20) <p>The organization consists of many volunteers and a few employees.</p>
21) 

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

24) 
25) <dl>

26) <dt>Jacob Appelbaum</dt><dd>Runs the <a
27) href="http://check.torproject.org/">Tor DNSEL</a> <a

28) href="http://exitlist.torproject.org/">site</a>, the <a
29) href="https://translation.torproject.org/">Tor Translation Portal</a>, and also
30) the in-progress Tor weather site.</dd>

31) <dt>Roger Dingledine (Tor project leader; Director)</dt><dd>Original

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

33) everything on track.</dd>

34) <dt>Matt Edman</dt><dd>Developer for <a
35) href="http://vidalia-project.net/">Vidalia</a>, a cross-platform Tor GUI
36) included in the Windows and OS X bundles.</dd>

37) <dt>Andrew Lewman (Director)</dt><dd>Manages building packages for

38) Windows, OS X, Red Hat, and SuSE. Also provides common sense on topics
39) like how to run a non-profit and generally helps keep everything moving
40) forward.</dd>

41) <dt>Karsten Loesing</dt><dd> Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of
42) Code on <a
43) href="https://www.torproject.org/svn/trunk/doc/spec/proposals/114-distributed-storage.txt">distributing
44) and securing the publishing and fetching of hidden service
45) descriptors</a>.</dd>

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

49) <dt>Steven Murdoch (Researcher)</dt><dd>Researcher at the University

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

51) the security, performance, and usability of Tor. Creator of the
52) <a href="https://torbrowser.torproject.org/">Tor Browser Bundle</a>.</dd>

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

54) runs one of the directory authorities, runs the website and the wiki,
55) and generally helps out a lot.</dd>

56) <dt>Mike Perry</dt><dd>Author of <a

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

58) controller that builds paths through the Tor network and
59) measures various properties and behaviors. Working now on a <a

60) href="https://torbutton.torproject.org/dev/">much more comprehensive

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

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

67) </dl>
68) 

69) <a id="Board"></a>
70) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#Board">The Tor Project Board of
71) Directors:</a></h3>

72) 
73) <dl>

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

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

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

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

81) cyberlaw professor, and founder of <a

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

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

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

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

89) </dl>
90) 

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

93) 
94) <dl>

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

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

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

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

99) <dt>Ruben Garcia</dt><dd><a

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

101) <dt>Jens Kubieziel</dt><dd><a

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

103) <dt>Pei Hanru</dt><dd><a

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

113) </dl>
114) 

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

117) 
118) <dl>

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

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

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

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

124) <dt>Jeff Blum</dt><dd>Our Site Editor volunteer who is helping to update
125) the content of the Tor website.</dd>

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

128) <dt>Geoff Goodell</dt><dd>Runs one of the directory authorities, used to
129) run the Blossom project which uses Tor as its overlay network, and runs
130) the <a href="http://lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/exit.py">exit.py</a>

131) Tor relay list.</dd>

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

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

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

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

140) <dt>Lasse Øverlier</dt><dd>Writes research papers on Tor: attacks,
141) defenses, and resource management, especially for hidden services.</dd>

142) <dt>Martin Peck and Kyle Williams</dt><dd>Developers for
143) JanusVM, a VMWare-based

144) transparent Tor proxy that makes Tor easier to set up and use.</dd>

145) <dt>Steve Topletz</dt><dd>Developer for Torpark (now called Xerobank
146) Browser), a preconfigured Tor+Firefox bundle for Windows.</dd>

147) <dt>Tup (a pseudonym -- he's managed to stay anonymous even from

148) us!)</dt><dd>Periodically adds new features for making Tor more

149) transparent to use. Also maintains the <a
150) href="http://p56soo2ibjkx23xo.onion/">TorDNSEL code</a>.</dd>
151) <dt>Ethan Zuckerman</dt><dd>A blogger who has written some
152) <a href="http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1019">interesting</a>
153) <a href="http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/tools/guide/">tutorials</a>

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

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

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

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

159) </dl>
160) 

161) <a id="GSoC"></a>

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

164) 
165) <dl>

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

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

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

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

170) <dt>Pat Double</dt><dd>Creator of the Incognito LiveCD.</dd>
171) <dt>Justin Hipple</dt><dd>The other developer for Vidalia.</dd>
172) <dt>Christian King</dt><dd> Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of Code
173) on making Tor relays stable on
174) Windows, by developing a <a

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

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

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

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

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

180) <dt>Rebecca McKinnon</dt><dd>Former Director of Tor.  Co-Founder of <a
181) href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/">Global Voices Online</a>.</dd>

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

184) <dt>Johannes Renner</dt><dd> Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of
185) Code on modifying <a
186) href="https://www.torproject.org/svn/torflow/README">TorFlow</a>
187) to measure various properties of the Tor network; mentored by Mike
188) Perry.</dd>
189) <dt>Scott Squires</dt><dd>The original developer of <a

190) href="https://torbutton.torproject.org/">Torbutton</a>.</dd>

191) </dl>

192) 

193) <p>Please don't contact us individually about Tor topics &mdash; if
194) you have a problem or question, please look through the <a href="<page
195) contact>">contact page</a> for appropriate addresses.</p>
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