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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>, and also the in-progress

29) Tor weather site.</dd>

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

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

32) everything on track.</dd>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

66) </dl>
67) 

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

71) 
72) <dl>

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

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

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

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

80) cyberlaw professor, and founder of <a

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

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

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

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

88) </dl>
89) 

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

92) 
93) <dl>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

112) </dl>
113) 

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

116) 
117) <dl>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

130) Tor relay list.</dd>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

158) </dl>
159) 

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

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

163) 
164) <dl>

165) <dt>Benedikt Boss</dt><dd>Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of Code on <a
166) href="https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/topf/trunk/README">TOPF</a>,
167) a fuzzer for Tor; mentored by Roger.</dd>

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

169) <dt>Pat Double</dt><dd>Creator of the Incognito LiveCD.</dd>
170) <dt>Justin Hipple</dt><dd>The other developer for Vidalia.</dd>
171) <dt>Christian King</dt><dd> Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of Code
172) on making Tor relays stable on
173) Windows, by developing a <a
174) href="https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/libevent-urz/trunk/README">buffer
175) implementation for libevent</a>; mentored by Nick.</dd>

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

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

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

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

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

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

190) </dl>

191) 

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