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7)     <a href="<page index>">Home &raquo; </a>

8)     <a href="<page about/overview>">About &raquo; </a>

9)     <a href="<page about/contributors>">Past Contributors</a>
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12)   	<h1>Past Contributors</h1>

13) <dl>

14) 
15) <dt>Sherief Alaa, Support</dt>
16) <dd>Arabic translator, worked on videos, documentation, and helpdesk.</dd>
17) 

18) <dt>Alexandre Allaire, Developer</dt>
19) <dd>Helped develop and package Flash Proxy.</dd>

20) 

21) <dt>Carolyn Anhalt</dt>
22) <dd>Coordinated translations and translators for all of tor's content;
23) website, products, and materials.</dd>

24) 

25) <dt>Jacob Appelbaum, Advocate, Developer</dt>
26) <dd>Represented Tor at conferences and trainings, and developed tools

27) for the Tor ecosystem. Ran one of the Tor directory authorities.</dd>

28) 

29) <dt>Thomas S. Benjamin</dt>
30) <dd>Anonymous communications and bridge distribution
31) researcher. His other work can be found on his <a
32) href="http://cryptocracy.net/">personal website</a>.</dd>
33) 

34) <dt>Katherine Bergeron</dt>
35) <dd>Helped streamlining our operations, including fundraising, merchandise
36) management, travel, and other projects.</dd>
37) 

38) <dt>Domenik Bork</dt><dd> Worked on

39) Configuration of Hidden Services with User Authorization in Vidalia as
40) part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>

41) <dt>Benedikt Boss</dt><dd>Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of Code on <a
42) href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/topf/trunk/README">TOPF</a>,
43) a fuzzer for Tor; mentored by Roger.</dd>

44) <dt>Caspar Bowden, Director (1961 - 2015)</dt>
45) <dd>Caspar was an advocate for Tor in Europe and a specialist in data
46) protection policy, EU and US surveillance law, PET research, identity
47) management, and information ethics and philosophy. He was formerly the
48) chief privacy advisor at Microsoft. He believed that people in every
49) country deserved the right to privacy irrespective of national
50) borders. He predicted US mass surveillance programs such as PRISM
51) and was vindicated after the Snowden revelations. We miss him
52) deeply.</dd>

53) <dt>Ren Bucholz</dt><dd>Our fine logo and images.</dd>
54) <dt>Fallon Chen</dt><dd> Worked on
55) Improving Tor Path Selection (<a
56) href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/torflow/branches/gsoc2008/">svn</a>)
57) and <a

58) href="<specblob>proposals/151-path-selection-improvements.txt">proposal

59) 151</a> as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>
60) <dt>Bram Cohen</dt><dd>Helped design our congestion control mechanisms,
61) in Tor's early days.</dd>
62) <dt>Pat Double</dt><dd>Creator of the Incognito LiveCD.</dd>

63) <dt>Christopher Davis, Libevent hacker</dt>
64) <dd>Worked during Google Summer of Code 2009 on porting
65) Polipo to Windows.  He currently helps with the libevent
66) bufferevent code.</dd>

67) 
68) <dt>Kevin Dyer</dt>
69) <dd>Main developer of <a
70) href="https://fteproxy.org/">fteproxy</a>, and part of the
71) pluggable transports team.</dd>
72) 

73) <dt>Matt Edman</dt>

74) <dd>Original developer for Vidalia,

75) a cross-platform Tor Graphical User Interface included in the bundles.</dd>

76) 
77) <dt>Christian Fromme, Developer</dt>
78) <dd>Helped with many Python projects, such as the
79) get-tor email auto-responder, check.torproject.org, bridge db,
80) tor weather, tor controller, tor flow, etc.</dd>
81) 
82) <dt>Melissa Gilroy</dt>
83) <dd>Ran Tor's finances and audit compliance.</dd>
84) 

85) <dt>Geoff Goodell</dt><dd>Started the <a
86) href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/blossom/trunk/">Blossom project</a>
87) which uses Tor as its overlay network; also helped motivate Tor's control
88) interface to be as flexible as it is.</dd>
89) <dt>Aleksei Gorny</dt><dd> Working on
90) Tor exit scanner improvements (<a
91) 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>

92) 
93) <dt>Sathyanarayanan Gunasekaran, Developer</dt>
94) <dd>Worked on Orbot in Google
95) Summer of Code 2011, and developed <a
96) href="https://compass.torproject.org/">Compass</a>.</dd>
97) 
98) <dt>Harmony, Support, Advocate</dt>
99) <dd>Wrote for <a href="<wiki>TorWeeklyNews/">Tor Weekly
100) News</a>, the help desk, and the browser manual.</dd>
101) 

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

103) <dt>Robert Hogan</dt>
104) <dd>Developer for the <a
105) href="http://tork.sf.net/">TorK</a> Tor controller, a <a
106) href="http://code.google.com/p/torora/">privacy-oriented
107) Arora fork</a>, the <a
108) href="http://code.google.com/p/torsocks/">torsocks
109) scripts</a>, and other useful peripheral tools.</dd>

110) 
111) <dt>Dr. Nick Hopper, Researcher</dt>
112) <dd>Cryptographer, privacy expert, and professor.</dd>
113) 

114) <dt>Leiah Jansen, Graphic Designer</dt>
115) <dd>Helped make our cool logos, designs, stickers, graphics, and so on.
116) Invented the awesome "roots" Tor logo.</dd>
117) 

118) <dt>Christian King</dt><dd> Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of Code
119) on making Tor relays stable on
120) Windows, by developing a <a
121) href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/libevent-urz/trunk/README">buffer
122) implementation for libevent</a>; mentored by Nick.</dd>
123) <dt>Joe Kowalski</dt><dd>Original author and provider of the torstatus
124) script formerly run on nighteffect.</dd>
125) <dt>Adam Langley</dt><dd>Our fine eventdns code.</dd>
126) <dt>Rebecca MacKinnon</dt><dd>Former Director of Tor.  Co-Founder of <a
127) href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/">Global Voices Online</a>.</dd>

128) 
129) <dt>Bruce Leidl</dt>
130) <dd>Lead developer of
131) <a href="http://www.subgraph.com/orchid.html">Orchid</a>,
132) a Tor client in Java.</dd>
133) 

134) <dt>Andrew Lewman, Former Executive Director</dt>
135) <dd>Managed the business operations of The Tor Project, Inc. Played
136) roles of finance, advocacy, project management, strategy, press, law
137) enforcement liaison, and domestic violence advocacy.</dd>

138) 
139) <dt>Matt Pagan</dt>
140) <dd>Maintained the FAQ and other documentation, and helped answer
141) all the users who contact the support desk.</dd>
142) 

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

145) <dt>Martin Peck</dt><dd>Worked on a VM-based transparent
146) proxying approach for Tor clients on Windows.</dd>

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

149) <dt>Robert Ransom</dt><dd>Found and fixed a bunch of Tor bugs, mostly in
150) Tor's hidden service code, and added several security and usability
151) features to Tor and Tor Browser Bundle.</dd>

152) <dt>Johannes Renner</dt><dd> Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of
153) Code on modifying <a
154) href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/torflow/trunk/README">TorFlow</a>
155) to measure various properties of the Tor network; mentored by Mike
156) Perry.</dd>

157) 
158) <dt>Runa A. Sandvik, Advocate</dt>
159) <dd>Maintained the Tor Translation Portal and the translations for
160) projects such as Vidalia, Torbutton and the website.</dd>
161) 
162) <dt>Christian Schulz, Developer</dt>
163) <dd>Developed <a
164) href="https://globe.torproject.org/">Globe</a>, which is on
165) its way to replacing Atlas and eventually Compass.</dd>
166) 

167) <dt>Scott Squires</dt><dd>The original developer of <a

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

169) 
170) <dt>Jeremy Todaro</dt>
171) <dd>Worked on the artwork and design for various projects,
172) annual reports, and brochures.</dd>
173) 

174) <dt>tup</dt>
175) <dd>Added new features for making Tor easier to use as a <a

176) href="<wiki>TransparentProxy">transparent
177) proxy</a>. Also wrote the <a
178) href="http://p56soo2ibjkx23xo.onion/">TorDNSEL code</a>.</dd>

179) <dt>Tomás Touceda, Vidalia Developer</dt>
180) <dd>Worked on maintenance and new development for Vidalia.</dd>

181) <dt>Stephen Tyree</dt><dd> Worked during Google Summer of Code 2009 to

182) develop a plugin API for Vidalia

183) and create a plugin to allow HerdictWeb integration, a project aiming
184) at identifying website inaccessibility using user submissions.</dd>
185) <dt>Camilo Viecco</dt><dd> Worked on

186) Providing Blossom functionality to Vidalia as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>

187) 
188) <dt>vmon</dt>
189) <dd>Farsi translator and support desk person. also worked on
190) Stegotorus.</dd>
191) 

192) <dt>Fred von Lohmann</dt><dd>Fred served on our Board of Directors

193) from 2006 through 2009.</dd>

194) <dt>Shondoit Walker, Build Developer</dt>
195) <dd>Worked on streamlining and bulletproofing the Tor Browser
196) Bundle build process, especially on Windows.</dd>

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

199) <dt>Christian Wilms</dt><dd> Worked on
200) Performance Enhancing Measures for Tor Hidden Services (<a
201) href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewvs.cgi/tor/branches/hidserv-perf/">svn</a>) as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>

202) <dt>Jillian C. York</dt><dd><a href="http://jilliancyork.com/">Jillian C. York</a> is a writer, blogger, and activist.</dd>

203) </dl>
204)