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

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

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

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

18) 

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

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

23) 
24) <dl>

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

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

27) everything on track.</dd>

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

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

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

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

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

39) of Cambridge, currently funded by The Tor Project to improve
40) the security, performance, and usability of Tor.</dd>

41) <dt>Shava Nerad (Development director)</dt><dd>Works on grants and
42) fundraising, PR, and community relations.</dd>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

57) </dl>
58) 

59) <a id="Board"></a>
60) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#Board">The Tor Project Board of
61) Directors:</a></h3>

62) 
63) <dl>

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

67) <dt>Rebecca McKinnon (Director)</dt><dd>Co-Founder of <a
68) href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/">Global Voices Online</a>.</dd>
69) <dt>Wendy Seltzer (Director)</dt><dd>Lawyer,

70) cyberlaw professor, and founder of <a

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

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

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

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

78) </dl>
79) 

80) <a id="GSoC"></a>
81) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#GSoC">Our 2007 Google Summer of
82) Coders:</a></h3>

83) 
84) <dl>

85) <dt>Benedikt Boss</dt><dd>Worked on <a

86) href="https://www.torproject.org/svn/topf/README">TOPF</a>, a fuzzer for Tor;

87) mentored by Roger.</dd>
88) <dt>Christian King</dt><dd> Worked on making Tor servers stable on

89) Windows; mentored by Nick.</dd>

90) <dt>Karsten Loesing</dt><dd> Worked on distributing and securing

91) the publishing and fetching of hidden service descriptors; mentored
92) by Roger.</dd>

93) <dt>Johannes Renner</dt><dd> Worked on building tools to measure various

94) properties of the Tor network; mentored by Mike Perry.</dd>

95) </dl>
96) 

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

99) 
100) <dl>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

119) </dl>
120) 

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

123) 
124) <dl>

125) <dt>Jacob Appelbaum</dt><dd>Runs the <a

126) href="http://check.torproject.org/">TorDNSEL</a> <a
127) href="http://exitlist.torproject.org/">site</a>.</dd>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

142) <dt>Julius Mittenzwei</dt><dd>A lawyer with the CCC in
143) Germany. Coordinates the German Tor community with respect to legal
144) questions and concerns.</dd>
145) <dt>Lasse Øverlier</dt><dd>Writes research papers on Tor: attacks,
146) defenses, and resource management, especially for hidden services.</dd>

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

149) transparent Tor proxy that makes Tor easier to set up and use.</dd>
150) <dt>Scott Squires</dt><dd>The original developer of <a

151) href="https://torbutton.torproject.org/">TorButton</a>.</dd>

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

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

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

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

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

163) <dt>All our server operators, people who write <a
164) href="http://freehaven.net/anonbib/">research papers</a> about Tor,

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

166) </dl>
167) 

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

170) 
171) <dl>
172) <dt>Ren Bucholz</dt><dd>Our fine logo and images.</dd>

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

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

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

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

178) </dl>

179) 

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