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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 and during the 2009 Google Summer of Code on expanding Thandy to
45) include BitTorrent support. Generally helps 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.  Plays roles of finance, advocacy, project
49) mangement, and general support.  General package hacker for Windows, OS
50) X, and various linux distributions.</dd>

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

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

54) and securing the publishing and fetching of hidden service

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

74) controller that builds paths through the Tor network and

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

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

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

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

86) </dl>
87) 

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

91) 
92) <dl>

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

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

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

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

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

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

102) cyberlaw professor, and founder of <a

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

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

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

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

110) </dl>
111) 

112) <a id="Summer"></a>
113) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#Summer">Summer students:</a></h3>
114) 
115) <dl>
116) <dt>Christopher Davis</dt><dd>Adapts Polipo to depend upon the libevent
117) library, making use of its event loop, asynchronous DNS resolver, and utility
118) library. (<a
119) href="http://www.mangrin.org/~chrisd/polipo_schedule.html">schedule</a>, <a
120) href="http://www.mangrin.org/~chrisd/polipo-gsoc/">code</a>). Mentor: Nick
121) Mathewson</dd>
122) <dt>Damian Johnson</dt><dd>Builds a command-line application for monitoring
123) Tor relays, providing real-time status information such as the current
124) configuration, bandwidth usage, message log, etc. (<a
125) href="https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/arm/trunk/readme.txt">code</a>).</dd>
126) <dt>Kory Kirk</dt><dd>Extends <a

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

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

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

130) association</a>, <a

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

132) refspoofing</a>, and <a

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

157) 
158) <dl>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

177) </dl>
178) 

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

181) 
182) <dl>

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

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

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

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

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

189) projects.</dd>

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

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

198) 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>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

229) </dl>
230) 

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

233) 
234) <dl>

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

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

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

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

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

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

244) href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/torflow/branches/gsoc2008/">svn</a>)
245) and <a
246) href="https://git.torproject.org/checkout/tor/master/doc/spec/proposals/151-path-selection-improvements.txt">proposal
247) 151</a> as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>

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

250) <dt>Pat Double</dt><dd>Creator of the Incognito LiveCD.</dd>
251) <dt>Justin Hipple</dt><dd>The other developer for Vidalia.</dd>
252) <dt>Christian King</dt><dd> Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of Code
253) on making Tor relays stable on
254) Windows, by developing a <a

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

273) <dt>Camilo Viecco</dt><dd> Worked on
274) Providing Blossom functionality to Vidalia (<a
275) href="http://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/branches/exit-country">svn</a>) as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>
276) <dt>Christian Wilms</dt><dd> Worked on
277) Performance Enhancing Measures for Tor Hidden Services (<a
278) 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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