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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>

<address>
The Tor Project<br />
122 Scott Circle<br />
Dedham, MA 02026-6416 USA<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
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 (Developer and Advocate)</dt><dd>Runs the <a
href="https://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 (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 vidalia/index>">Vidalia</a>, a cross-platform Tor GUI
included in the Windows and OS X bundles.</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>Andrew Lewman (Executive Director; Director; <a href="<page
press/index>">press contact</a>)</dt><dd>Manages the business operations
of The Tor Project, Inc.  Plays roles of finance, advocacy, project
mangement, 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="<svnsandbox>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="<page
projects/metrics>">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 torbrowser/index>">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>Martin Peck (Developer)</dt><dd>Working on a VM-based transparent
proxying approach for Tor clients on Windows.</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>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>
<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>

<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 (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>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="Summer"></a>
<h3><a class="anchor" href="#Summer">Summer students:</a></h3>

<dl>
<dt>Christopher Davis</dt><dd>Adapts Polipo to depend upon the libevent
library, making use of its event loop, asynchronous DNS resolver, and utility
library. (<a
href="http://www.mangrin.org/~chrisd/polipo_schedule.html">schedule</a>, <a
href="http://www.mangrin.org/~chrisd/polipo-gsoc/">code</a>). Mentor: Nick
Mathewson</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://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/arm/trunk/readme.txt">code</a>).</dd>
<dt>Kory Kirk</dt><dd>Extends <a
href="<page torbutton/index>">Torbutton</a>
by implementing three feature requests, namely the <a
href="https://bugs.torproject.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&amp;id=462">tor://
association</a>, <a
href="https://bugs.torproject.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&amp;id=524">better
refspoofing</a>, and <a
href="https://bugs.torproject.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&amp;id=637">more
granular cookie control</a> (<a
href="http://korykirk.com/GSoC/blag/index.php">status updates</a>). Mentor:
Mike Perry</dd>
<dt>Runa Sandvik</dt><dd>Improves usability of <a
href="https://translation.torproject.org/">translating the website</a> by
automatically converting 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> (<a
href="http://gsoc-tor.blogspot.com/">status updates</a>). Mentor: Jacob
Appelbaum</dd>
<dt>Stephen Tyree</dt><dd>Develops a plugin API for <a
href="<page vidalia/index>">Vidalia</a> and creates a plugin to allow
HerdictWeb integration,
a project aiming at identifying website inaccessibility using user
submissions (<a
href="https://trac.vidalia-project.net/wiki/ExtensionAPI">schedule</a>,
<a
href="https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/branches/extension-api">code</a>).
Mentor: Matt Edman</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 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>

<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>Christian Fromme</dt><dd>Helps out on Tor weather, gettor, and other
projects.</dd>
<dt>Kasimir Gabert</dt><dd>Maintains the <a
href="https://torstatus.kgprog.com/">TorStatus</a> statistics pages.</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>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 still works
on PR and community relations.</dd>
<dt>Lasse &Oslash;verlier</dt><dd>Writes research papers on Tor: attacks,
defenses, and resource management, especially for hidden services.</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://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/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>

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

<dl>
<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="https://git.torproject.org/checkout/tor/master/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>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 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>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>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>
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