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    <h2>Tor: People</h2>

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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 02081-2972 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 contact</a>)</dt><dd>Manages the business operations
    of The Tor Project, Inc.  Plays roles of finance, advocacy, project
    management, and general support.</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
    torbutton/index>">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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    <h3><a href="<page about/board>">The Tor Project Board of Directors:</a></h3>

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    <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>

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    <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>

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    <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 torbutton/index>">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>
    </dl>
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