Author: arma Date: 2014-03-24 07:41:43 +0000 (Mon, 24 Mar 2014) New Revision: 26678 Modified: website/trunk/about/en/corepeople.wml Log: Update the core people page to reflect our current community members, since we'd left it un-updated for the past 18 months or so. This commit moves the list from 31 people to 62 people. Modified: website/trunk/about/en/corepeople.wml =================================================================== --- website/trunk/about/en/corepeople.wml 2014-03-24 07:05:46 UTC (rev 26677) +++ website/trunk/about/en/corepeople.wml 2014-03-24 07:41:43 UTC (rev 26678) @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ # Translation-Priority: 3-low #include "head.wmi" TITLE="Tor Project: Core People" CHARSET="UTF-8" <div id="content" class="clearfix"> - <div id="breadcrumbs"> +<div id="breadcrumbs"> <a href="<page index>">Home » </a> <a href="<page about/overview>">About » </a> <a href="<page about/corepeople>">Tor People</a> @@ -24,17 +24,57 @@ have a problem or question, please look through the <a href="<page about/contact>">contact page</a> for appropriate addresses.</p> - <h1>Core Tor People</h1> +<h1>Core Tor People</h1> <dl> - <dt>Jacob Appelbaum, Advocate, Security Researcher, and Developer</dt> - <dd>Our main advocate. Speaks at conferences and gives + <dt>Sherief Alaa, Support</dt> + <dd>Arabic translator, works on videos and documentation, and + helps answer all the users who contact the support desk.</dd> + + <dt>Jacob Appelbaum, Advocate, Security Researcher, and + Developer</dt> + <dd>Speaks at conferences and gives trainings all over the world to get people excited about Tor, explain how Tor is used in real world situations, and generally - explain why anonymity online matters to you. Original developer + explain why anonymity online matters to you. Original developer of ttdnsd, <a href="https://check.torproject.org/">Tor check</a>, <a href="https://exitlist.torproject.org/">Tor DNSEL</a>, and <a href="https://weather.torproject.org">Tor - weather</a> site.</dd> + weather</a> site. Runs one of the directory authorities.</dd> + + <dt>Moritz Bartl, Advocate</dt> + <dd>Manages <a href="https://torservers.net">Zwiebelfreunde</a> + (a German non-profit to run exit relays), and coordinates + the many similar non-profits that are springing up in other + countries. Speaks and organizes in support of Tor and freedoms + in Europe and world-wide.</dd> + + <dt>Caspar Bowden, Director</dt> + <dd>Advocate for Tor in Europe, and specialist in data + protection policy, EU and US surveillance law, PET research, + identity management, and information ethics and philosophy.</dd> + + <dt>Griffin Boyce, Developer</dt> + <dd>Works on <a href="http://cupcakebridge.com/">Cupcake</a>, + a set of browser extensions to let people volunteer to become + a <a href="https://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/">Flash + Proxy</a> for censored users.</dd> + + <dt>Kathleen Brade, Developer</dt> + <dd>Part of the Tor Browser team — develops + and maintains Tor Launcher and Tor Browser Button.</dd> + + <dt>Arlo Breault, Developer</dt> + <dd>Rewrote <a href="https://check.torproject.org/">Tor + Check</a> so now it can handle all our users, and helps with + Flash Proxy and other pluggable transport work. Also working + on the Tor Instant Messaging Bundle.</dd> + + <dt>Colin Childs, Translation Coordinator and Support</dt> + <dd>Helps wrangle <a + href="https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/torproject/">Transifex</a> + for us, and also helps answer all the users who contact the + support desk.</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. @@ -42,21 +82,41 @@ nightly builds for all operating systems we support. Erinn is also doing some advocacy by talking to audiences at FSCONS, CodeBits.eu, and various European universites.</dd> + <dt>Roger Dingledine, Project Leader, Director, Researcher</dt> <dd>Original developer of Tor along with Nick Mathewson and Paul Syverson. Leading researcher in the anonymous communications - field. Frequent speaker at conferences to advocate Tor and + field. Frequent speaker at conferences to advocate Tor and explain what Tor is and can do. Helps coordinate academic - researchers.</dd> - <dt>David Fifield, Developer</dt> + researchers. Runs one of the directory authorities.</dd> + + <dt>Kevin Dyer, Developer, Researcher</dt> + <dd>Main developer of <a + href="https://fteproxy.org/">fteproxy</a>, and part of the + pluggable transports team. Grad student at Portland State.</dd> + + <dt>Nima Fatemi, Support</dt> + <dd>Farsi translator; helps answer all the users who contact + the support desk.</dd> + + <dt>David Fifield, Developer, Researcher</dt> <dd>Developer and co-inventor of <a - href="https://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/">Flash Proxy</a> (<a - href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/flashproxy.git">git</a>), - a set of tools to route Tor traffic via web browsers for - better blocking-resistance.</dd> + href="https://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/">Flash Proxy</a>, + and part of the pluggable transports team. Grad student at + Berkeley.</dd> + <dt>Arturo Filastò, Developer</dt> - <dd>Develops censorship measurement tools, and generally helps - to evaluate security.</dd> + <dd>Project leader for <a + href="https://ooni.torproject.org/">OONI</a>, has helped + with <a href="http://tor2web.org/">tor2web</a>, wrote <a + href="https://atlas.torproject.org/">Atlas</a>, and generally + helps to evaluate and improve security.</dd> + + <dt>Matt Finkel, Developer</dt> + <dd>Helps maintain and develop <a + href="https://bridges.torproject.org/">BridgeDB</a>, has helped + with OONI, and generally helps on many projects.</dd> + <dt>Nathan Freitas, Mobile phone hacker</dt> <dd>The driving force behind <a href="https://guardianproject.info">The Guardian @@ -66,47 +126,96 @@ an Android library for Tor, and <a href="https://guardianproject.info/apps/orweb/">Orweb: A privacy-enhanced mobile browser</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> + <dd>Helped with many Python projects, such as the + get-tor email auto-responder, check.torproject.org, bridge db, + tor weather, tor controller, tor flow, etc.</dd> + <dt>Aaron Gibson, Developer</dt> - <dd>Taking over bridgedb development, and hopefully development - and maintenance for other Tor services.</dd> + <dd>Develops OONI, and has helped with Torflow and other Tor + services.</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>Dr. Ian Goldberg, Director, Researcher</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>David Goulet, Developer</dt> + <dd>Lead developer of Torsocks 2.0.</dd> + <dt>Sathyanarayanan Gunasekaran, Developer</dt> - <dd>Developer that worked on Orbot in Google - Summer of Code 2011, and presently develops Compass and - Pyonionoo</dd> - <dt>Sebastian Hahn, Developer and Advocate</dt> + <dd>Worked on Orbot in Google + Summer of Code 2011. Currently develops <a + href="https://compass.torproject.org/">Compass</a> and + Pyonionoo, and is a grad student at Georgia Tech.</dd> + + <dt>Sebastian Hahn, Developer, Advocate</dt> <dd>Improves build and testing automation for TBB. Develops Tor itself. Helps people around the world use and understand - Tor better. Generally helps everything run smoothly.</dd> - <dt>Rob Jansen, Researcher</dt> - <dd>Developer for <a href="https://shadow.cs.umn.edu/">Shadow</a>, + Tor better. Generally helps everything run smoothly. Runs one + of the directory authorities.</dd> + + <dt>Dr. Nick Hopper, Researcher</dt> + <dd>Cryptographer, privacy expert, and professor.</dd> + + <dt>Intrigeri, Developer</dt> + <dd>Our main interface with the <a + href="https://tails.boum.org/">Tails</a> project.</dd> + + <dt>Isis, Developer</dt> + <dd>Lead maintainer and developer on <a + href="https://bridges.torproject.org/">BridgeDB</a>. Used to + work on OONI.</dd> + + <dt>Dr. Rob Jansen, Researcher</dt> + <dd>Lead developer for <a + href="https://shadow.cs.umn.edu/">Shadow</a>, a full Tor network simulator that he's using to help us understand and improve Tor network performance.</dd> + + <dt>Dr. Aaron Johnson, Researcher</dt> + <dd>Works on understanding diversity and trust + in Tor network locations. See for example the <a + href="http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#ccs2013-usersrouted">CCS + 2013</a> paper.</dd> + <dt>Damian Johnson, Developer</dt> - <dd>Author of <a href="https://www.atagar.com/arm/">arm</a>, a command-line - application that provides real-time status information for Tor relays - and <a href="https://stem.torproject.org/">Stem</a>, a controller + <dd>Author of <a href="https://www.atagar.com/arm/">arm</a>, + a command-line application that provides + real-time status information for Tor relays, and <a + href="https://stem.torproject.org/">Stem</a>, a controller library for interacting with Tor.</dd> + <dt>asn, Developer</dt> - <dd>Developer of pluggable transports and bridge-scanning - resistance.</dd> - <dt>Bruce Leidl</dt><dd>Led development of + <dd>Developer of Obfsproxy, the Tor side of pluggable + transports, and researcher on bridge scanning resistance. Part + of the pluggable transports team.</dd> + + <dt>Georg Koppen, Developer</dt> + <dd>Works on Tor Browser, Tor Browser Button, and our build + automation.</dd> + + <dt>Pepijn Le Heux, Advocate</dt> + <dd>Tireless advocate and Tor enthusiast in the Netherlands.</dd> + + <dt>Andreas Lehner, Advocate</dt> + <dd>Operates a directory authority in Germany with the CCC, + and does talks and discussions in support of privacy around + Europe.</dd> + + <dt>Bruce Leidl</dt> + <dd>Lead developer of <a href="http://www.subgraph.com/orchid.html">Orchid</a>, a Tor client in Java.</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. @@ -115,72 +224,142 @@ advocate. He can be contacted via OpenPGP 0x6B4D6475, <a href="http://ostel.co/">Ostel</a> via ostel-lewman@ostel.co, or +1-781-948-1982.</dd> + <dt>Dr. Karsten Loesing, Metrics Researcher and Developer</dt> <dd>Primary researcher and developer into <a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/">anonymous metrics</a> which started as a National Science Foundation grant.</dd> + + <dt>Lunar, Support Coordinator and Developer</dt> + <dd>In addition to leading the support team and helping with + Debian packaging, he also helps lead the Tor Weekly News + issues.</dd> + + <dt>Ximin Luo, Developer</dt> + <dd>Flash Proxy developer, and member of the pluggable transports + team.</dd> + <dt>Nick Mathewson, Chief Architect, Researcher, 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> + of the ongoing design work, and coordinates and leads ongoing + development.</dd> + + <dt>meejah, Developer</dt> + <dd>Author of <a + href="https://github.com/meejah/txtorcon">txtorcon</a>, a Tor + controller library in Twisted.</dd> + + <dt>Kelley Misata, Outreach and Communications</dt> + <dd>Helps handle press, coordinates Tor talks and outreach, + helps with trainings, helps with annual reports, and generally + works on community-facing activities.</dd> + <dt>Dr. 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>. - You can find out more about his work on his <a - href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/">professional - website</a></dd> + <dd>Researcher at the University of Cambridge who works + on security, performance, and usability of Tor. Creator + of the <a href="<page projects/torbrowser>">Tor Browser + Bundle</a>. You can find out more about his work on his + <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/">professional + website</a>.</dd> + <dt>Linus Nordberg, Advocate, Developer</dt> - <dd>Swedish advocate for Tor, anonymous - communications research, and employee at <a - href="http://nordu.net">NORDUnet</a>. Works on implementing - IPv6 in Tor.</dd> + <dd>Swedish advocate for Tor, anonymous communications research, + and employee at <a href="http://nordu.net">NORDUnet</a>. Works + on implementing IPv6 in Tor, and helps with build + automation. Runs one of the directory authorities.</dd> + + <dt>Matt Pagan, Support</dt> + <dd>Maintains the FAQ, works on documentation, and helps answer + all the users who contact the support desk.</dd> + <dt>Peter Palfrader, Sysadmin and Developer</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, Torbutton and Tor Performance 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. Developer and maintainer of <a href="<page - torbutton/index>">Torbutton</a>.</dd> + + <dt>Mike Perry, Tor Browser and Tor Performance + Developer</dt> <dd>Lead developer on Tor Browser, developer + of <a href="<page torbutton/index>">Torbutton</a>, author of <a + href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/torflow.git/blob/HEAD:/README">TorFlow</a>. + Runs one of the directory authorities.</dd> + + <dt>Sina Rabbani, Advocate</dt> + <dd>Developer and maintainer of <a + href="https://cloud.torproject.org/">Tor Cloud</a>, and + does trainings and outreach. Runs one of the directory + authorities.</dd> + <dt>Karen Reilly, Development Director</dt> <dd>Responsible for fundraising, advocacy, general marketing, policy outreach programs for Tor. She is also available to speak for audiences about the benefits of online anonymity, privacy, and Tor.</dd> - <dt>Runa A. Sandvik, Developer, Security Researcher, and Translation Coordinator</dt> - <dd>Maintains the <a - href="http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/torproject/">Tor - Translation Portal</a> and the translations for a number of - projects (such as Vidalia, Torbutton and the website). She - also generally helps out with the <a - href="<wiki>doc/Torouter">Torouter - project</a>, bridge distribution through instant messaging, - and other projects.</dd> + + <dt>Leif Ryge, Developer</dt> + <dd>Works on security analysis, designer of "bananaphone" + transport, and part of the pluggable transports team.</dd> + + <dt>Runa A. Sandvik, Advocate</dt> + <dd>Maintained the Tor Translation Portal and the translations + for projects such as Vidalia, Torbutton and the + website.</dd> + + <dt>Christian Schulz, Developer</dt> + <dd>Developer and maintainer of <a + href="https://globe.torproject.org/">Globe</a>, which is on + its way to replacing Atlas and eventually Compass.</dd> + <dt>Wendy Seltzer, Director</dt> <dd>Lawyer, cyberlaw professor, and founder of <a href="http://chillingeffects.org/">ChillingEffects.org</a>.</dd> + <dt>Andrea Shepard, Developer</dt> <dd>Works with Nick as a core Tor developer.</dd> + <dt>Sukhbir Singh, Developer</dt> - <dd>Develops and maintains TorBirdy (Torbutton for Thunderbird).</dd> + <dd>Develops and maintains TorBirdy (Torbutton for Thunderbird). + Rewrote and maintains Gettor. Working on the Tor Instant + Messaging Bundle.</dd> + + <dt>Mark Smith, Developer</dt> + <dd>Part of the Tor Browser team — develops + and maintains Tor Launcher and Tor Browser Button.</dd> + <dt>Dr. Paul Syverson, Researcher</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>Rob Thomas, Director</dt> + <dd>Shares his experience with smoothly running non-profits, and + also serves as our Internet governance bureaucracy guru.</dd> + <dt>Jeremy Todaro, Illustration & Design</dt> <dd>Works on the artwork and design for various projects, annual reports, and brochures. His other work can be found at <a href="http://jmtodaro.com/">http://jmtodaro.com/</a>.</dd> + + <dt>Jason Tsai, Support</dt> + <dd>Chinese translator; helps answer all the users who contact + the support desk.</dd> + + <dt>Nicolas Vigier, Developer</dt> + <dd>Working on build automation, particularly around the Tor + Browser.</dd> + + <dt>vmon, Support, Developer</dt> + <dd>Farsi translator; helps answer all the users who contact + the support desk. Also working on Stegotorus, and part of the + pluggable transports team.</dd> + <dt>Philipp Winter, Researcher</dt> <dd>Understands how to manipulate and circumvent Tor network - censorship attempts.</dd> + censorship attempts. Main developer of <a + href="http://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/scramblesuit/">ScrambleSuit</a>, + and part of the pluggable transports team. Grad student at + Karlstad University in Sweden.</dd> </dl> </div>