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<h2>Tor: People</h2>
<div class="underline"></div>

<div class="sidebar-left">
<h3>Sections</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="<page people>#Core">Core Tor People</a></li>
<li><a href="<page people>#Board">Board of Directors</a></li>
<li><a href="<page people>#Summer">Summer Students</a></li>
<li><a href="<page people>#Translators">Translators</a></li>
<li><a href="<page people>#Volunteers">Volunteers</a></li>
<li><a href="<page people>#Past">Past Contributors</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

<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 /><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>

<div class="underline"></div>
<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 vidalia/index>">Vidalia</a>, a cross-platform Tor GUI
included in the Windows and OS X bundles.</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>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
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="<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>Karen Reilly (Development Director)</dt><dd>Responsible for
fundraising, advocacy, and general marketing and outreach programs for
Tor.</dd>
<dt>Runa 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>

<div class="underline"></div>
<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>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>

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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>

<div class="underline"></div>
<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>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>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>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>Kory Kirk</dt><dd>Worked during Google Summer of Code 2009 on
extending Torbutton. Now he's working with Bruce Leidl on a Tor client
in Java.</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>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>

<div class="underline"></div>
<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>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>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>Stephen Tyree</dt><dd>Worked during Google Summer of Code 2009 to
develop a plugin API for <a href="<page vidalia/index>">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>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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