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<h2>Tor: People</h2>
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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>
<blockquote>
The Tor Project<br>
122 Scott Circle<br>
Dedham, MA  02026 USA<br>
</blockquote>

<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
contact>">contact page</a> for appropriate addresses.</p>

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

<dl>
<dt>Jacob Appelbaum</dt><dd>Runs the <a
href="http://check.torproject.org/">Tor DNSEL</a> <a
href="http://exitlist.torproject.org/">site</a>, the <a
href="https://translation.torproject.org/">Tor Translation Portal</a>, and also
the in-progress Tor weather site.</dd>
<dt>Roger Dingledine (Tor 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</dt><dd>Developer for <a
href="http://vidalia-project.net/">Vidalia</a>, a cross-platform Tor GUI
included in the Windows and OS X bundles.</dd>
<dt>Andrew Lewman (Director)</dt><dd>Manages building packages for
Windows, OS X, Red Hat, and SuSE. Also provides common sense on topics
like how to run a non-profit and generally helps keep everything moving
forward.</dd>
<dt>Karsten Loesing</dt><dd> Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of
Code on <a
href="https://www.torproject.org/svn/trunk/doc/spec/proposals/114-distributed-storage.txt">distributing
and securing the publishing and fetching of hidden service
descriptors</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)</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="https://torbrowser.torproject.org/">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</dt><dd>Author of <a
href="https://www.torproject.org/svn/torflow/README">TorFlow</a>, a Tor
controller that builds paths through the Tor network and
measures various properties and behaviors. Working now on a <a
href="https://torbutton.torproject.org/dev/">much more comprehensive
version of Torbutton</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>

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

<dl>
<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</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>Fred von Lohmann (Director)</dt><dd>Fred is a Senior
Intellectual Property Attorney at the Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF). 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>Along with Roger, Nick, and Andrew listed above as Directors.</dt>
</dl>

<a id="GSoC"></a>
<h3><a class="anchor" href="#GSoC">Our 2008 Google Summer of Coders:</a></h3>
<p>Google is sponsoring seven students this year to work on Tor as part of <a
href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/">Google Summer of Code 2008</a>:
</p>

<dl>
<dt>Domenik Bork</dt><dd> <a
href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/eff/appinfo.html?csaid=86500DD2D78BB5D9"
>Configuration of Hidden Services with User Authorization in Vidalia</a> (<a
href="http://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/branches/hidden-services">svn</a>).</dd>
<dt>Fallon Chen</dt><dd> <a
href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/eff/appinfo.html?csaid=1542D2C9D3CBC005"
>Improving Tor Path Selection</a> (<a
href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/torflow/branches/gsoc2008/">svn</a>).</dd>
<dt>Aleksei Gorny</dt><dd> <a
href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/eff/appinfo.html?csaid=99C7DA39A557AF3B"
>Tor exit scanner improvements</a> (<a
href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/torflow/branches/gsoc2008/">svn</a>).</dd>
<dt>Sebastian Hahn</dt><dd>
<a
href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/eff/appinfo.html?csaid=3A225E2DCCBA5B3A"
>A networking application to automatically carry out tests for Tor</a> (<a
href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/puppetor/branches/gsoc2008/">svn</a>).</dd>
<dt>Simon Johansson</dt><dd>
a <a
href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/eff/appinfo.html?csaid=DC95E0B31F075870"
>Translation Wiki</a> (<a
href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/translation/trunk/tools/">svn</a>).</dd>
<dt>Camilo Viecco</dt><dd> <a
href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/eff/appinfo.html?csaid=5A3C0C85AD67C283"
>Providing Blossom functionality to Vidalia</a> (<a
href="http://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/branches/exit-country">svn</a>).</dd>
<dt>Christian Wilms</dt><dd> <a
href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/eff/appinfo.html?csaid=CD5716F7F50B4036"
>Performance Enhancing Measures for Tor Hidden Services</a> (<a
href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tor/branches/hidserv-perf/">svn</a>).</dd>
</dl>

<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>fredzupy</dt><dd><a
href="https://www.torproject.org/index.html.fr">French</a>.</dd>
<dt>Ruben Garcia</dt><dd><a
href="https://www.torproject.org/index.html.es">Spanish</a>.</dd>
<dt>Jens Kubieziel</dt><dd><a
href="https://www.torproject.org/index.html.de">German</a>.</dd>
<dt>Pei Hanru</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>

<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>Jeff Blum</dt><dd>Our Site Editor volunteer who is helping to update
the content of the Tor website.</dd>
<dt>Kasimir Gabert</dt><dd>Maintains the <a
href="https://torstatus.kgprog.com/">TorStatus</a> statistics pages.</dd>
<dt>Geoff Goodell</dt><dd>Runs one of the directory authorities, used to
run the Blossom project which uses Tor as its overlay network, and runs
the <a href="http://lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/exit.py">exit.py</a>
Tor relay list.</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>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 works on PR and community relations.</dd>
<dt>Lasse Øverlier</dt><dd>Writes research papers on Tor: attacks,
defenses, and resource management, especially for hidden services.</dd>
<dt>Martin Peck and Kyle Williams</dt><dd>Developers for
JanusVM, a VMWare-based
transparent Tor proxy that makes Tor easier to set up and use.</dd>
<dt>Steve Topletz</dt><dd>Developer for Torpark (now called Xerobank
Browser), a preconfigured Tor+Firefox bundle for Windows.</dd>
<dt>Tup (a pseudonym -- he's managed to stay anonymous even from
us!)</dt><dd>Periodically adds new features for making Tor more
transparent to use. Also maintains the <a
href="http://p56soo2ibjkx23xo.onion/">TorDNSEL code</a>.</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>

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

<dl>
<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>Pat Double</dt><dd>Creator of the Incognito LiveCD.</dd>
<dt>Justin Hipple</dt><dd>The other developer for Vidalia.</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 McKinnon</dt><dd>Former Director of Tor.  Co-Founder of <a
href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/">Global Voices Online</a>.</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://www.torproject.org/svn/torflow/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="https://torbutton.torproject.org/">Torbutton</a>.</dd>
</dl>

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