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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:
14) </p>

15) 
16) <address>
17) The Tor Project<br />
18) 122 Scott Circle<br />
19) Dedham, MA 02026-6416 USA<br />
20) </address>

21) 

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

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

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

26) 

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

29) 
30) <dl>

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

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

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

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

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

38) everything on track.</dd>

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

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

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

42) <dt>Sebastian Hahn</dt><dd> Worked during the 2008 Google
43) Summer of Code on a networking application to automatically carry out
44) tests for Tor. Currently assists in migration to Git and generally helps
45) out a lot.</dd>

46) <dt>Andrew Lewman (Executive Director; Director; <a href="<page
47) press/index>">press contact</a>)</dt><dd>Manages the business operations
48) of The Tor Project, Inc.  Builds packages for Windows, OS X, Red Hat,
49) and SuSE.</dd>

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

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

53) and securing the publishing and fetching of hidden service

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

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

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

61) <dt>Steven Murdoch (Researcher and Developer)</dt><dd>Researcher at
62) the University

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

73) controller that builds paths through the Tor network and

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

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

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

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

85) </dl>
86) 

87) <a id="Board"></a>
88) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#Board">The Tor Project Board of
89) Directors:</a></h3>

90) 
91) <dl>

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

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

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

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

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

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

101) cyberlaw professor, and founder of <a

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

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

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

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

109) </dl>
110) 

111) <a id="Summer"></a>
112) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#Summer">Summer students:</a></h3>
113) 
114) <dl>
115) <dt>Christopher Davis</dt><dd>Adapts Polipo to depend upon the libevent
116) library, making use of its event loop, asynchronous DNS resolver, and utility
117) library. (<a
118) href="http://www.mangrin.org/~chrisd/polipo_schedule.html">schedule</a>, <a
119) href="http://www.mangrin.org/~chrisd/polipo-gsoc/">code</a>). Mentor: Nick
120) Mathewson</dd>
121) <dt>Sebastian Hahn</dt><dd>Addresses the content distribution issues of <a

122) href="https://git.torproject.org/checkout/thandy/master/">Thandy, the secure

123) software updater for Tor</a>, by including libtorrent and setting up a
124) tracker to learn about new packages (<a
125) href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/Gsoc2009/ThandyTorrents">schedule</a>).
126) Mentor: Martin Peck</dd>
127) <dt>Damian Johnson</dt><dd>Builds a command-line application for monitoring
128) Tor relays, providing real-time status information such as the current
129) configuration, bandwidth usage, message log, etc. (<a
130) href="https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/arm/trunk/readme.txt">code</a>).</dd>
131) <dt>Kory Kirk</dt><dd>Extends <a

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

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

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

135) association</a>, <a

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

137) refspoofing</a>, and <a

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

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

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

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

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

152) a project aiming at identifying website inaccessibility using user
153) submissions (<a
154) href="https://trac.vidalia-project.net/wiki/ExtensionAPI">schedule</a>,
155) <a
156) href="https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/branches/extension-api">code</a>).
157) Mentor: Matt Edman</dd>
158) </dl>
159) 

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

162) 
163) <dl>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

182) </dl>
183) 

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

186) 
187) <dl>

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

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

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

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

193) <dt>Christian Fromme</dt><dd>Helps out on Tor weather, gettor, and other

194) projects.</dd>

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

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

203) 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>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

234) </dl>
235) 

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

238) 
239) <dl>

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

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

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

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

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

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

249) href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/torflow/branches/gsoc2008/">svn</a>)
250) and <a
251) href="https://git.torproject.org/checkout/tor/master/doc/spec/proposals/151-path-selection-improvements.txt">proposal
252) 151</a> as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>

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

255) <dt>Pat Double</dt><dd>Creator of the Incognito LiveCD.</dd>
256) <dt>Justin Hipple</dt><dd>The other developer for Vidalia.</dd>
257) <dt>Christian King</dt><dd> Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of Code
258) on making Tor relays stable on
259) Windows, by developing a <a

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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