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9) <h2>Tor: People</h2>

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14) <ul>
15) <li><a href="<page people>#Core">Core Tor People</a></li>
16) <li><a href="<page people>#Board">Board of Directors</a></li>
17) <li><a href="<page people>#Summer">Summer Students</a></li>
18) <li><a href="<page people>#Translators">Translators</a></li>
19) <li><a href="<page people>#Volunteers">Volunteers</a></li>
20) <li><a href="<page people>#Past">Past Contributors</a></li>
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24) 

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

26) the United States. The official address of the organization is:
27) </p>

28) 
29) <address>
30) The Tor Project<br />
31) 122 Scott Circle<br />

32) Dedham, MA 02026-6416 USA<br /><br />

33) </address>

34) 

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

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

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

39) 

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

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

43) 
44) <dl>

45) <dt>Carolyn Anhalt (Community and Translation
46) Coordinator)</dt><dd>Responsible for growing Tor's community moderators
47) and translators.</dd>

48) <dt>Jacob Appelbaum (Developer and Advocate)</dt><dd>Runs the <a

49) href="https://check.torproject.org/">Tor DNSEL</a> <a

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

53) <dt>Erinn Clark (Packaging and Build Automation)</dt><dd>Erinn is tackling the
54) growing needs for easy to install and configure packages on a variety of
55) operating systems.  Also working on automating the build system and
56) producing nightly builds for all operating systems we support.</dd> 

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

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

59) everything on track.</dd>

60) <dt>Matt Edman (Developer)</dt><dd>Lead developer for <a

61) href="<page vidalia/index>">Vidalia</a>, a cross-platform Tor GUI

62) included in the Windows and OS X bundles.</dd>

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

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

67) <dt>Melissa Gilroy (CFO and Internal Audit)</dt><dd>With a strong
68) background in non-profit accounting and auditing, Melissa is in charge
69) of Tor's finances, audit compliance, and keeping Tor's financial
70) operations moving along.</dd>

71) <dt>Sebastian Hahn</dt><dd> Worked during the 2008 Google
72) Summer of Code on a networking application to automatically carry out

73) tests for Tor and during the 2009 Google Summer of Code on expanding Thandy to
74) include BitTorrent support. Generally helps out a lot.</dd>

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

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

78) management, and general support.  General package hacker for Windows, OS

79) X, and various linux distributions.</dd>

80) <dt>Karsten Loesing (Developer)</dt><dd> Worked during the 2007 Google
81) Summer of Code on <a

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

83) and securing the publishing and fetching of hidden service

84) descriptors</a>. Currently working on <a href="<page
85) projects/hidserv>">making hidden services faster and more

86) reliable</a>, and on <a href="<page
87) projects/metrics>">metrics</a>.</dd>

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

91) <dt>Steven Murdoch (Researcher and Developer)</dt><dd>Researcher at
92) the University

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

94) the security, performance, and usability of Tor. Creator of the

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

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

97) runs one of the directory authorities, runs the website and the wiki,

98) and generally helps out a lot.</dd>

99) <dt>Martin Peck (Developer)</dt><dd>Working on a VM-based transparent
100) proxying approach for Tor clients on Windows.</dd>
101) <dt>Mike Perry (Developer)</dt><dd>Author of <a

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

103) controller that builds paths through the Tor network and

104) measures various properties and behaviors, and new author of <a
105) href="<page torbutton/index>">Torbutton</a>.</dd>

106) <dt>Karen Reilly (Development Director)</dt><dd>Responsible for
107) fundraising, advocacy, and general marketing and outreach programs for
108) Tor.</dd>

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

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

114) </dl>
115) 

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

117) <a id="Board"></a>
118) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#Board">The Tor Project Board of
119) Directors:</a></h3>

120) 
121) <dl>

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

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

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

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

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

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

131) cyberlaw professor, and founder of <a

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

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

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

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

139) </dl>
140) 

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

142) <a id="Summer"></a>
143) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#Summer">Summer students:</a></h3>
144) 
145) <dl>
146) <dt>Christopher Davis</dt><dd>Adapts Polipo to depend upon the libevent
147) library, making use of its event loop, asynchronous DNS resolver, and utility
148) library. (<a
149) href="http://www.mangrin.org/~chrisd/polipo_schedule.html">schedule</a>, <a
150) href="http://www.mangrin.org/~chrisd/polipo-gsoc/">code</a>). Mentor: Nick
151) Mathewson</dd>
152) <dt>Damian Johnson</dt><dd>Builds a command-line application for monitoring
153) Tor relays, providing real-time status information such as the current
154) configuration, bandwidth usage, message log, etc. (<a
155) href="https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/arm/trunk/readme.txt">code</a>).</dd>
156) <dt>Kory Kirk</dt><dd>Extends <a

157) href="<page torbutton/index>">Torbutton</a>

158) by implementing three feature requests, namely the <a

159) href="https://bugs.torproject.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&id=462">tor://

160) association</a>, <a

161) href="https://bugs.torproject.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&id=524">better

162) refspoofing</a>, and <a

163) href="https://bugs.torproject.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&id=637">more

164) granular cookie control</a> (<a
165) href="http://korykirk.com/GSoC/blag/index.php">status updates</a>). Mentor:
166) Mike Perry</dd>

167) <dt>Runa Sandvik</dt><dd>Improves usability of <a
168) href="https://translation.torproject.org/">translating the website</a> by
169) automatically converting wml files to po files (and back) so that they can be
170) handled by <a
171) href="http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/index">Pootle</a> (<a
172) href="http://gsoc-tor.blogspot.com/">status updates</a>). Mentor: Jacob
173) Appelbaum</dd>

174) <dt>Stephen Tyree</dt><dd>Develops a plugin API for <a

175) href="<page vidalia/index>">Vidalia</a> and creates a plugin to allow
176) HerdictWeb integration,

177) a project aiming at identifying website inaccessibility using user
178) submissions (<a
179) href="https://trac.vidalia-project.net/wiki/ExtensionAPI">schedule</a>,
180) <a
181) href="https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/branches/extension-api">code</a>).
182) Mentor: Matt Edman</dd>
183) </dl>
184) 

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

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

188) 
189) <dl>

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

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

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

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

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

195) <dt>Ruben Garcia, plus further pages by <a
196) href="http://www.greentranslations.com/">Green Crescent</a></dt><dd><a

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

210) </dl>
211) 

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

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

215) 
216) <dl>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

247) href="https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TransparentProxy">transparent
248) proxy</a>. Also maintains the <a

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

261) </dl>
262) 

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

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

266) 
267) <dl>

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

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

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

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

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

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

277) href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/torflow/branches/gsoc2008/">svn</a>)
278) and <a
279) href="https://git.torproject.org/checkout/tor/master/doc/spec/proposals/151-path-selection-improvements.txt">proposal
280) 151</a> as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>

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

283) <dt>Pat Double</dt><dd>Creator of the Incognito LiveCD.</dd>
284) <dt>Justin Hipple</dt><dd>The other developer for Vidalia.</dd>
285) <dt>Christian King</dt><dd> Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of Code
286) on making Tor relays stable on
287) Windows, by developing a <a

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

306) <dt>Camilo Viecco</dt><dd> Worked on
307) Providing Blossom functionality to Vidalia (<a
308) href="http://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/branches/exit-country">svn</a>) as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>
309) <dt>Christian Wilms</dt><dd> Worked on
310) Performance Enhancing Measures for Tor Hidden Services (<a
311) href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tor/branches/hidserv-perf/">svn</a>) as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>

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

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