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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>#GSoC">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) 969 Main Street, Suite 206<br />
33) Walpole, MA 02081 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 you
38) 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
48) moderators and translators.</dd>

49) 
50) <dt>Jacob Appelbaum (Developer and Advocate)</dt><dd>Runs
51) the <a href="https://check.torproject.org/">Tor DNSEL</a> <a
52) href="http://exitlist.torproject.org/">site</a>, and also the in-progress
53) Tor weather site.</dd>
54) 
55) <dt>Erinn Clark (Packaging and Build Automation)</dt><dd>Erinn is tackling
56) the growing needs for easy to install and configure packages on a variety
57) of operating systems.  Also working on automating the build system and

58) producing nightly builds for all operating systems we support.</dd>

59) 

60) <dt>Christopher Davis</dt><dd>Worked during Google Summer of Code 2009
61) on porting Polipo to Windows and on helping with the libevent bufferevent
62) code. Now he's the Polipo maintainer.</dd>

63) 

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

65) developer of Tor; now plays pretty much all the roles to keep everything
66) on track.</dd>
67) 
68) <dt>Matt Edman (Developer)</dt><dd>Lead developer for <a href="<page
69) vidalia/index>">Vidalia</a>, a cross-platform Tor GUI included in the
70) Windows and OS X bundles.</dd>
71) 

72) <dt>Nathan Freitas</dt><dd>The driving force behind Tor on the Android
73) platform in the form of <a href="<page docs/android>">Orbot</a>.</dd>
74) 

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

76) python for Tor.  He enhanced and maintains a slew of codebases for us,
77) such as the get-tor email auto-responder, check.torproject.org, bridge
78) db, tor weather, tor controller, tor flow, etc.</dd>
79) 

80) <dt>Melissa Gilroy (CFO and Internal Audit)</dt><dd>With a strong

81) background in non-profit accounting and auditing, Melissa is in charge of
82) Tor's finances, audit compliance, and keeping Tor's financial operations
83) moving along.</dd>
84) 

85) <dt>Sebastian Hahn</dt><dd>Worked during the 2008 Google Summer of

86) Code on a networking application to automatically carry out tests for
87) Tor and during the 2009 Google Summer of Code on expanding Thandy to

88) include BitTorrent support. Generally helps out a lot.</dd>

89) 

90) <dt>Robert Hogan</dt><dd>Developer for the <a
91) href="http://tork.sf.net/">TorK</a> Tor controller, a <a
92) href="http://code.google.com/p/torora/">privacy-oriented Aurora fork</a>,
93) the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/torsocks/">torsocks scripts</a>,
94) and other useful peripheral tools.</dd>
95) 

96) <dt>Damian Johnson</dt><dd>Builds a command-line application for monitoring
97) Tor relays, providing real-time status information such as the current
98) configuration, bandwidth usage, message log, etc. (<a
99) href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/arm/trunk/README">code</a>).</dd>
100) 

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

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

104) management, and general support.  General package hacker for Windows,
105) OS X, and various linux distributions.</dd>
106) 
107) <dt>Karsten Loesing (Developer)</dt><dd>
108) Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of Code on <a

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

110) and securing the publishing and fetching of hidden
111) service descriptors</a>. Currently working on <a href="<page
112) projects/hidserv>">making hidden services faster and more reliable</a>,

113) and on <a href="http://metrics.torproject.org/">metrics</a>.</dd>

114) 

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

118) 

119) <dt>Steven Murdoch (Researcher and Developer)</dt><dd>Researcher at

120) the University of Cambridge, currently funded by The Tor Project to
121) improve the security, performance, and usability of Tor. Creator of the

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

123) 
124) <dt>Peter Palfrader</dt><dd>Manages the Debian packages, runs one of
125) the directory authorities, runs the website and the wiki, and generally
126) helps out a lot.</dd>
127) 

128) <dt>Mike Perry (Developer)</dt><dd>Author of <a

129) href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/torflow/trunk/README">TorFlow</a>,
130) a Tor controller that builds paths through the Tor network and measures
131) various properties and behaviors, and new author of <a href="<page
132) torbutton/index>">Torbutton</a>.</dd>
133) 

134) <dt>Karen Reilly (Development Director)</dt><dd>Responsible for

135) fundraising, advocacy, and general marketing and outreach programs
136) for Tor.</dd>
137) 

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

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

143) 

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

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

149) </dl>
150) 

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

152) <a id="Board"></a>
153) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#Board">The Tor Project Board of
154) Directors:</a></h3>

155) 
156) <dl>

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

161) 

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

165) 
166) <dt>Xianghui (Isaac) Mao (Director)</dt><dd>Chinese blogging
167) and privacy activist.  His current activities can be found at <a

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

169) 
170) <dt>Frank Rieger (Director)</dt><dd>CTO of <a
171) href="http://www.gsmk.de/">GSMK Cryptophone</a>.</dd>
172) 

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

174) cyberlaw professor, and founder of <a

175) href="http://chillingeffects.org/">ChillingEffects.org</a>.</dd>

176) 

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

178) </dl>
179) 

180) <div class="underline"></div>
181) <a id="GSoC"></a>
182) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#GSoC">Google Summer of Code 2010 students:</a></h3>
183) 
184) <dl>

185) <dt>Kevin Berry</dt><dd>Working on a database schema to support better
186) node churn metrics and on a more dynamic metrics website. Mentored by
187) Karsten Loesing.</dd>
188) <dt>Harry Bock</dt><dd>Working on TorBEL, a Tor bulk exit list tracker and
189) service designed to replace TorDNSEL. TorBEL is written in Python using
190) the torflow API. Mentored by Sebastian Hahn.</dd>

191) <dt>Kory Kirk</dt><dd>Worked during Google Summer of Code 2009 on
192) extending Torbutton. Now he's working on implementing hidden services
193) for our java Tor client. Mentored by Bruce Leidl.</dd>

194) <dt>John Schanck</dt><dd>Works on improving the automated detection of
195) misconfigured or malicious exit nodes. Mentored by Mike Perry.</dd>

196) </dl>
197) 

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

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

201) 
202) <dl>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

216) </dl>
217) 

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

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

221) 
222) <dl>

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

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

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

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

228) <dt>Marco Bonetti</dt><dd>Focusing on MobileTor for the iPhone.</dd>

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

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

233) <dt>Bruce Leidl</dt><dd>Working on a Tor client in Java.</dd>

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

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

239) <dt>Linus Nordberg</dt><dd>Enjoys measuring the Tor network and helps
240) with outreach in the Nordic countries.</dd>

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

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

243) <dt>Martin Peck</dt><dd>Working on a VM-based transparent
244) proxying approach for Tor clients on Windows.</dd>

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

250) href="<wiki>TransparentProxy">transparent

251) proxy</a>. Also maintains the <a

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

264) </dl>
265) 

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

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

269) 
270) <dl>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

281) href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/torflow/branches/gsoc2008/">svn</a>)

282) and <a

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

284) 151</a> as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>

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

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

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

294) href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/torflow/branches/gsoc2008/">svn</a>), originally started as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

327) <dt>Camilo Viecco</dt><dd> Worked on
328) Providing Blossom functionality to Vidalia (<a
329) href="http://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/branches/exit-country">svn</a>) as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>

330) <dt>Fred von Lohmann</dt><dd>Fred served on our Board of Directors
331) from 2006 through 2009.   His complete bio can be found at the <a
332) href="http://www.eff.org/about/staff/?f=fred_von_lohmann.html">EFF
333) Staff Site</a>.</dd>

334) <dt>Christian Wilms</dt><dd> Worked on
335) Performance Enhancing Measures for Tor Hidden Services (<a

336) href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewvs.cgi/tor/branches/hidserv-perf/">svn</a>) as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>

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

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