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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:
14) </p>

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

20) 

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

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

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

25) 

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

28) 
29) <dl>

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

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

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

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

37) everything on track.</dd>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

71) </dl>
72) 

73) <a id="Board"></a>
74) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#Board">The Tor Project Board of
75) Directors:</a></h3>

76) 
77) <dl>

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

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

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

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

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

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

87) cyberlaw professor, and founder of <a

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

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

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

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

95) </dl>
96) 

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

98) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#GSoC">Our 2008 Google Summer of Coders:</a></h3>

99) <p>Google is sponsoring seven students this year to work on Tor as part of <a

100) href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/">Google Summer of Code 2008</a>:

101) </p>

102) 
103) <dl>

104) <dt>Domenik Bork</dt><dd> <a

105) href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/eff/appinfo.html?csaid=86500DD2D78BB5D9"

106) >Configuration of Hidden Services with User Authorization in Vidalia</a> (<a
107) href="http://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/branches/hidden-services">svn</a>).</dd>
108) <dt>Fallon Chen</dt><dd> <a
109) href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/eff/appinfo.html?csaid=1542D2C9D3CBC005"
110) >Improving Tor Path Selection</a> (<a
111) href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/torflow/branches/gsoc2008/">svn</a>).</dd>
112) <dt>Aleksei Gorny</dt><dd> <a
113) href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/eff/appinfo.html?csaid=99C7DA39A557AF3B"
114) >Tor exit scanner improvements</a> (<a
115) href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/torflow/branches/gsoc2008/">svn</a>).</dd>

116) <dt>Sebastian Hahn</dt><dd>

117) <a

118) href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/eff/appinfo.html?csaid=3A225E2DCCBA5B3A"

119) >A networking application to automatically carry out tests for Tor</a> (<a
120) href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/puppetor/branches/gsoc2008/">svn</a>).</dd>

121) <dt>Simon Johansson</dt><dd>

122) a <a

123) href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/eff/appinfo.html?csaid=DC95E0B31F075870"

124) >Translation Wiki</a> (<a
125) href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/translation/trunk/tools/">svn</a>).</dd>
126) <dt>Camilo Viecco</dt><dd> <a
127) href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/eff/appinfo.html?csaid=5A3C0C85AD67C283"
128) >Providing Blossom functionality to Vidalia</a> (<a
129) href="http://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/branches/exit-country">svn</a>).</dd>
130) <dt>Christian Wilms</dt><dd> <a

131) href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/eff/appinfo.html?csaid=CD5716F7F50B4036"

132) >Performance Enhancing Measures for Tor Hidden Services</a> (<a
133) href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tor/branches/hidserv-perf/">svn</a>).</dd>

134) </dl>
135) 

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

138) 
139) <dl>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

158) </dl>
159) 

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

162) 
163) <dl>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

176) Tor relay list.</dd>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

204) </dl>
205) 

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

208) 
209) <dl>

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

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

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

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

214) <dt>Pat Double</dt><dd>Creator of the Incognito LiveCD.</dd>
215) <dt>Justin Hipple</dt><dd>The other developer for Vidalia.</dd>
216) <dt>Christian King</dt><dd> Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of Code
217) on making Tor relays stable on
218) Windows, by developing a <a

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

235) </dl>

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