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    <h2>Tor: People</h2>
    
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    #<h3>Sections</h3>
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    #<li><a href="<page about/corepeople>#Core">Core Tor People</a></li>
    #<li><a href="<page about/people>#Board">Board of Directors</a></li>
    #<li><a href="<page about/people>#GSoC">Summer Students</a></li>
    #<li><a href="<page about/people>#Translators">Translators</a></li>
    #<li><a href="<page about/people>#Volunteers">Volunteers</a></li>
    #<li><a href="<page about/people>#Past">Past Contributors</a></li>
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    <p>The Tor Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in
    the United States. The official address of the organization is:
    </p>
    
    <address>
    The Tor Project<br />
    969 Main Street, Suite 206<br />
    Walpole, MA 02081 USA<br /><br />
    </address>
    
    <p>The organization consists of many volunteers and a few employees.
    Please don't contact us individually about Tor topics &mdash; if you
    have a problem or question, please look through the <a href="<page
    about/contact>">contact page</a> for appropriate addresses.</p>
    
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    <a id="Core"></a>
    <h3><a class="anchor" href="#Core">Core Tor people:</a></h3>
    
    <dl>
    <dt>Carolyn Anhalt (Community and Translation
    Coordinator)</dt><dd>Responsible for growing Tor's community
    moderators and translators.</dd>
    
    <dt>Jacob Appelbaum (Developer and Advocate)</dt><dd>Runs
    the <a href="https://check.torproject.org/">Tor DNSEL</a> <a
    href="http://exitlist.torproject.org/">site</a>, and also the in-progress
    Tor weather site.</dd>
    
    <dt>Erinn Clark (Packaging and Build Automation)</dt><dd>Erinn is tackling
    the growing needs for easy to install and configure packages on a variety
    of operating systems.  Also working on automating the build system and
    producing nightly builds for all operating systems we support.</dd>
    
    <dt>Christopher Davis</dt><dd>Worked during Google Summer of Code 2009
    on porting Polipo to Windows and on helping with the libevent bufferevent
    code. Now he's the Polipo maintainer.</dd>
    
    <dt>Roger Dingledine (Project Leader; Director)</dt><dd>Original
    developer of Tor; now plays pretty much all the roles to keep everything
    on track.</dd>
    
    <dt>Matt Edman (Developer)</dt><dd>Lead developer for <a href="<page
    projects/vidalia>">Vidalia</a>, a cross-platform Tor GUI included in the
    Windows and OS X bundles.</dd>
    
    <dt>Nathan Freitas</dt><dd>The driving force behind Tor on the Android
    platform in the form of <a href="<page docs/android>">Orbot</a>.</dd>
    
    <dt>Christian Fromme (Developer)</dt><dd>Christian works on all things
    python for Tor.  He enhanced and maintains a slew of codebases for us,
    such as the get-tor email auto-responder, check.torproject.org, bridge
    db, tor weather, tor controller, tor flow, etc.</dd>
    
    <dt>Melissa Gilroy (CFO and Internal Audit)</dt><dd>With a strong
    background in non-profit accounting and auditing, Melissa is in charge of
    Tor's finances, audit compliance, and keeping Tor's financial operations
    moving along.</dd>
    
    <dt>Sebastian Hahn</dt><dd> Worked during the 2008 Google Summer of
    Code on a networking application to automatically carry out tests for
    Tor and during the 2009 Google Summer of Code on expanding Thandy to
    include BitTorrent support. Generally helps out a lot.</dd>
    
    <dt>Damian Johnson</dt><dd>Builds a command-line application for monitoring
    Tor relays, providing real-time status information such as the current
    configuration, bandwidth usage, message log, etc. (<a
    href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/arm/trunk/README">code</a>).</dd>
    
    <dt>Andrew Lewman (Executive Director; Director; <a href="<page
    press/press>">press contact</a>)</dt><dd>Manages the business operations
    of The Tor Project, Inc.  Plays roles of finance, advocacy, project
    management, and general support.  General package hacker for Windows,
    OS X, and various linux distributions.</dd>
    
    <dt>Karsten Loesing (Developer)</dt><dd>
    Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of Code on <a
    href="<gitblob>doc/spec/proposals/114-distributed-storage.txt">distributing
    and securing the publishing and fetching of hidden
    service descriptors</a>. Currently working on <a href="<page
    projects/hidserv>">making hidden services faster and more reliable</a>,
    and on <a href="http://metrics.torproject.org/">metrics</a>.</dd>
    
    <dt>Nick Mathewson (Chief architect; Director)</dt><dd>One of the
    three original designers of Tor; does a lot of the ongoing design work.
    One of the two main developers, along with Roger.</dd>
    
    <dt>Steven Murdoch (Researcher and Developer)</dt><dd>Researcher at
    the University of Cambridge, currently funded by The Tor Project to
    improve the security, performance, and usability of Tor. Creator of the
    <a href="<page projects/torbrowser>">Tor Browser Bundle</a>.</dd>
    
    <dt>Peter Palfrader</dt><dd>Manages the Debian packages, runs one of
    the directory authorities, runs the website and the wiki, and generally
    helps out a lot.</dd>
    
    <dt>Mike Perry (Developer)</dt><dd>Author of <a
    href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/torflow/trunk/README">TorFlow</a>,
    a Tor controller that builds paths through the Tor network and measures
    various properties and behaviors, and new author of <a href="<page
    projects/torbutton>">Torbutton</a>.</dd>
    
    <dt>Karen Reilly (Development Director)</dt><dd>Responsible for
    fundraising, advocacy, and general marketing and outreach programs
    for Tor.</dd>
    
    <dt>Runa A. Sandvik</dt><dd>Maintains the <a
    href="https://translation.torproject.org/">Tor Translation
    Portal</a>, and works on automatically converting our website wml
    files to po files (and back) so that they can be handled by <a
    href="http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/index">Pootle</a>.</dd>
    
    <dt>Paul Syverson</dt><dd>Inventor of <a
    href="http://www.onion-router.net/">Onion Routing</a>, original designer
    of Tor along with Roger and Nick, and project leader for original design,
    development, and deployment of Tor. Currently helps out with research
    and design.</dd>
    </dl>
    
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    <a id="Board"></a>
    <h3><a class="anchor" href="#Board">The Tor Project Board of
    Directors:</a></h3>
    
    <dl>
    <dt>Meredith Hoban Dunn (Director)</dt><dd>Our audit committee chair. Her
    role is to help us make sure we're able to pass our upcoming corporate
    audits correctly, watch for internal fraud, tell us when we're doing
    things in a non-standard way, and so on.</dd>
    
    <dt>Ian Goldberg (Director)</dt><dd>Cryptographer,
    privacy expert, and professor; one of the designers of <a
    href="http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/">Off-the-Record Messaging</a>.</dd>
    
    <dt>Xianghui (Isaac) Mao (Director)</dt><dd>Chinese blogging
    and privacy activist.  His current activities can be found at <a
    href="http://isaacmao.com/">his website</a>.</dd>
    
    <dt>Frank Rieger (Director)</dt><dd>CTO of <a
    href="http://www.gsmk.de/">GSMK Cryptophone</a>.</dd>
    
    <dt>Wendy Seltzer (Director)</dt><dd>Lawyer,
    cyberlaw professor, and founder of <a
    href="http://chillingeffects.org/">ChillingEffects.org</a>.</dd>
    
    <dt>Along with Roger, Nick, and Andrew listed above as Directors.</dt>
    </dl>
    
    <div class="underline"></div>
    <a id="GSoC"></a>
    <h3><a class="anchor" href="#GSoC">Google Summer of Code 2010 students:</a></h3>
    
    <dl>
    <dt>Kevin Berry</dt><dd>Working on a database schema to support better
    node churn metrics and on a more dynamic metrics website. Mentored by
    Karsten Loesing.</dd>
    <dt>Harry Bock</dt><dd>Working on TorBEL, a Tor bulk exit list tracker and
    service designed to replace TorDNSEL. TorBEL is written in Python using
    the torflow API. Mentored by Sebastian Hahn.</dd>
    <dt>Kory Kirk</dt><dd>Worked during Google Summer of Code 2009 on
    extending Torbutton. Now he's working on implementing hidden services
    for our java Tor client. Mentored by Bruce Leidl.</dd>
    <dt>John Schanck</dt><dd>Works on improving the automated detection of
    misconfigured or malicious exit nodes. Mentored by Mike Perry.</dd>
    </dl>
    
    <div class="underline"></div>
    <a id="Translators"></a>
    <h3><a class="anchor" href="#Translators">Core translators:</a></h3>
    
    <dl>
    <dt>Bogdan Drozdowski</dt><dd><a
    href="https://www.torproject.org/index.html.pl">Polish</a>.</dd>
    <dt>Tiago Faria</dt><dd>Portuguese.</dd>
    <dt>fredzupy</dt><dd><a
    href="https://www.torproject.org/index.html.fr">French</a>.</dd>
    <dt>Ruben Garcia, plus further pages by <a
    href="http://www.greentranslations.com/">Green Crescent</a></dt><dd><a
    href="https://www.torproject.org/index.html.es">Spanish</a>.</dd>
    <dt>Jens Kubieziel and Oliver Knapp</dt><dd><a
    href="https://www.torproject.org/index.html.de">German</a>.</dd>
    <dt>Pei Hanru and bridgefish</dt><dd><a
    href="https://www.torproject.org/index.html.zh-cn">Simplified Chinese</a>.</dd>
    <dt>Jan Reister</dt><dd><a
    href="https://www.torproject.org/index.html.it">Italian</a>.</dd>
    <dt>Masaki Taniguchi</dt><dd><a
    href="https://www.torproject.org/index.html.ja">Japanese</a>.</dd>
    <dt>Jan Woning</dt><dd><a
    href="https://www.torproject.org/index.html.nl">Dutch</a>.</dd>
    <dt>ygrek</dt><dd><a
    href="https://www.torproject.org/index.html.ru">Russian</a>.</dd>
    </dl>
    
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    <a id="Volunteers"></a>
    <h3><a class="anchor" href="#Volunteers">More volunteers:</a></h3>
    
    <dl>
    <dt>Anonym</dt><dd>Maintainer of the Incognito LiveCD.</dd>
    <dt>Kevin Bankston</dt><dd>EFF lawyer who helped write the <a
    href="<page eff/tor-legal-faq>">Tor Legal FAQ</a> and
    tirelessly answers the phone when somebody in the world has a legal
    question about Tor.</dd>
    <dt>Marco Bonetti</dt><dd>Focusing on MobileTor for the iPhone.</dd>
    <dt>Kasimir Gabert</dt><dd>Maintains the <a
    href="https://torstatus.kgprog.com/">TorStatus</a> statistics pages.</dd>
    <dt>Robert Hogan</dt><dd>Developer for the <a
    href="http://tork.sf.net/">TorK</a> Tor controller.</dd>
    <dt>Fabian Keil</dt><dd>One of the core Privoxy developers, and also a
    Tor fan. He's the reason Tor and Privoxy still work well together.</dd>
    <dt>Bruce Leidl</dt><dd>Working on a Tor client in Java.</dd>
    <dt>Julius Mittenzwei</dt><dd>A lawyer with the CCC in
    Germany. Coordinates the German Tor community with respect to legal
    questions and concerns.</dd>
    <dt>Shava Nerad</dt><dd>Our former Development Director. She still works
    on PR and community relations.</dd>
    <dt>Linus Nordberg</dt><dd>Enjoys measuring the Tor network and helps
    with outreach in the Nordic countries.</dd>
    <dt>Lasse &Oslash;verlier</dt><dd>Writes research papers on Tor: attacks,
    defenses, and resource management, especially for hidden services.</dd>
    <dt>Martin Peck</dt><dd>Working on a VM-based transparent
    proxying approach for Tor clients on Windows.</dd>
    <dt>rovv (a pseudonym -- he's managed to stay anonymous even from
    us!)</dt><dd>The most dedicated bug reporter we've ever heard from. He
    must read Tor source code every day over breakfast.</dd>
    <dt>tup (another pseudonym)</dt><dd>Periodically adds new features for
    making Tor easier to use as a <a
    href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TransparentProxy">transparent
    proxy</a>. Also maintains the <a
    href="http://p56soo2ibjkx23xo.onion/">TorDNSEL code</a>.</dd>
    <dt>Kyle Williams</dt><dd>Developer for
    JanusVM, a VMWare-based
    transparent Tor proxy that makes Tor easier to set up and use.</dd>
    <dt>Ethan Zuckerman</dt><dd>A blogger who has written some
    <a href="http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1019">interesting</a>
    <a href="http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/tools/guide/">tutorials</a>
    for how, when, and whether to use Tor. He also teaches activists around
    the world about Tor and related tools.</dd>
    <dt>All our relay operators, people who write <a
    href="http://freehaven.net/anonbib/">research papers</a> about Tor,
    people who teach others about Tor, etc.</dt>
    </dl>
    
    <div class="underline"></div>
    <a id="Past"></a>
    <h3><a class="anchor" href="#Past">Past thanks to:</a></h3>
    
    <dl>
    <dt>John Bashinski</dt><dd> Contributed the initial rpm spec file.</dd>
    <dt>Domenik Bork</dt><dd> Worked on
    Configuration of Hidden Services with User Authorization in Vidalia (<a
    href="http://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/branches/hidden-services">svn</a>) as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>
    <dt>Benedikt Boss</dt><dd>Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of Code on <a
    href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/topf/trunk/README">TOPF</a>,
    a fuzzer for Tor; mentored by Roger.</dd>
    <dt>Ren Bucholz</dt><dd>Our fine logo and images.</dd>
    <dt>Fallon Chen</dt><dd> Worked on
    Improving Tor Path Selection (<a
    href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/torflow/branches/gsoc2008/">svn</a>)
    and <a
    href="<gitblob>doc/spec/proposals/151-path-selection-improvements.txt">proposal
    151</a> as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>
    <dt>Bram Cohen</dt><dd>Helped design our congestion control mechanisms,
    in Tor's early days.</dd>
    <dt>Pat Double</dt><dd>Creator of the Incognito LiveCD.</dd>
    <dt>Geoff Goodell</dt><dd>Started the <a
    href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/blossom/trunk/">Blossom project</a>
    which uses Tor as its overlay network; also helped motivate Tor's control
    interface to be as flexible as it is.</dd>
    <dt>Aleksei Gorny</dt><dd> Working on
    Tor exit scanner improvements (<a
    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>
    <dt>Christian Grothoff</dt><dd> Contributed better daemonizing behavior.</dd>
    <dt>Steven Hazel</dt><dd> Made 'make install' do the right thing.</dd>
    <dt>Justin Hipple</dt><dd>The other developer for Vidalia.</dd>
    <dt>Jason Holt</dt><dd> Contributed patches to the instructions and the man
    page.</dd>
    <dt>Christian King</dt><dd> Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of Code
    on making Tor relays stable on
    Windows, by developing a <a
    href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/libevent-urz/trunk/README">buffer
    implementation for libevent</a>; mentored by Nick.</dd>
    <dt>Joe Kowalski</dt><dd>Original author and provider of the torstatus
    script formerly run on nighteffect.</dd>
    <dt>Adam Langley</dt><dd>Our fine eventdns code.</dd>
    <dt>Rebecca MacKinnon</dt><dd>Former Director of Tor.  Co-Founder of <a
    href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/">Global Voices Online</a>.</dd>
    <dt>Chris Palmer</dt><dd>Our liaison and tech guy with EFF while EFF
    was funding us. Also helped advocate and write end-user docs.</dd>
    <dt>Matej Pfajfar</dt><dd>Author of the original onion routing code that
    Tor is based on, so we didn't have to start from scratch.</dd>
    <dt>Johannes Renner</dt><dd> Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of
    Code on modifying <a
    href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/torflow/trunk/README">TorFlow</a>
    to measure various properties of the Tor network; mentored by Mike
    Perry.</dd>
    <dt>Scott Squires</dt><dd>The original developer of <a
    href="<page projects/torbutton>">Torbutton</a>.</dd>
    <dt>Aaron Turner</dt><dd> Contributed the first version of the tor.sh
    initscripts shell script.</dd>
    <dt>Stephen Tyree</dt><dd> Worked during Google Summer of Code 2009 to
    develop a plugin API for <a href="<page projects/vidalia>">Vidalia</a>
    and create a plugin to allow HerdictWeb integration, a project aiming
    at identifying website inaccessibility using user submissions.</dd>
    <dt>Camilo Viecco</dt><dd> Worked on
    Providing Blossom functionality to Vidalia (<a
    href="http://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/branches/exit-country">svn</a>) as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>
    <dt>Fred von Lohmann</dt><dd>Fred served on our Board of Directors
    from 2006 through 2009.   His complete bio can be found at the <a
    href="http://www.eff.org/about/staff/?f=fred_von_lohmann.html">EFF
    Staff Site</a>.</dd>
    <dt>Christian Wilms</dt><dd> Worked on
    Performance Enhancing Measures for Tor Hidden Services (<a
    href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tor/branches/hidserv-perf/">svn</a>) as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>
    <dt>Jillian C. York</dt><dd><a href="http://jilliancyork.com/">Jillian
    C. York</a> is a writer, blogger, and activist based in
    Boston.  She blogs on the uses of Tor and anonymity at <a
    href="http://www.knightpulse.org/blog/tor">KnightPulse</a>.</dd>
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