Community Team

Welcome to the Community Team page!

The Community Team is for helping people who help Tor, and growing and sustaining the Tor community. We work on things like outreach, advocacy, teaching, user support, getting relay operators what they need, and community governance.

Community Team Projects

• Global South Strategy: 2018 - 2022 evaluation report, summary
• Tor User Support & front desk
• User Documentation: Tor Browser user manual, Support portal, and Community portal.
• Network Health and Relay Advocacy
• Tor Trainings with Human Rights Defenders
• Localization
• Outreach
• Community Policies
• Community portal: repository and website.

Communication

Our main private real-time (synchronous) channel is #tor-community on IRC/Matrix/OFTC. Because discussions often involve sensitive topics (for example, user support tickets), the Community Team chat is private for team members only.

We hold our weekly meetings every Monday at 14 UTC (other timezones) on BBB.

Our main asynchronous channel is the Tor Forum. Feel free to register and to post if you want to say something that you think is on topic.

Community Team Contacts

• Localization: Join #tor-l10n channel or subscribe to the tor-l10n mailing list.
• Training requests: email training@torproject.org.
• General inquiries: email frontdesk@torproject.org.
• Internal / Team-only requests: Open a confidential ticket: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/team/.

How to get involved

• Relay operators meetups happens every month, keep an eye on tor-relays mailing list.
• Localization Hangouts: Tor translators meets on #tor-l10n channel.
• Check out our official Tor training materials.
• Meet us @ events.

Projects (2025)

• Project 163
• Project 146
• Project 101 - Tor new "VPN" app.
• Project 112 - Combating Malicious Relays
• Project 145 - Tor Secure Access Package for USAGM
• Project 158
• SEEKCommons fellowship
• Elections 2025 monitoring project

Priorities 2025

• Assist Network Health Team to maintain a healthy relay operators community
• Improve the Tor Community Policies and governance
• Improve Community Team internal policies
• Assist Anti-censorship Team on connecting with censored users to improve censorship circumvention
• Help users in high censored regions
• Improve user support tools and documentation
• Lead trainings with communities in the Global South: Latin America, East Africa, and MENA
• Look for spikes in Tor Metrics usage
• Improve localization tooling
• Spreading onions: spread onion sites around the world, build devops tools for onion operators and onion services health monitoring.
• 2025 Elections monitoring, training, and user support

Previous Priorities and Roadmaps

Previous projects

• Sponsor/Project 9
• Project 96
• Sponsor 30/Sponsor 60: Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship.
• Sponsor 123: Tor Secure Access Package for USAGM
• Sponsor 134: Localizing Tor tools and documentation into Arabic, Chinese, and Swahili
• Sponsor 139: Rapid Response Fund for Iran censorship circumvention
• Sponsor 144: Creating a public bank of user stories
• Project 152: Rapid Response Fund in TM
• Project 149: Digital safety training for at-risk MENA communities and organizations
• Project 146: Expanding access to digital media through the use of secure communications, infrastructure, tools, and techniques