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# Welcome to Tor!
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This is a public on-boarding document focused for people who are joining Tor either because they became an employee or a contractor. But it can be useful for volunteers too.
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This is a public onboarding document focused on people who are joining Tor either because they became an [employee](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/team/-/wikis/Onboarding-Procedures#tpi-hiring-procedure) or a contractor. But it can be useful for core contributors that are volunteers too.
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Keep in mind that is a whole onboard process that is done internally with our HR and Finance teams, so, if somethings like health care and vacation is missing from this page is because they will be presented to you in private.
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Keep in mind that, for employees, this is a whole onboard process that is done internally with our HR and Finance teams, so, if some things like health care and vacation are missing from this page is because they will be presented to you in private.
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When onboarding a new employee or contractor into the Tor Project there is an initial meeting where we go through an [onboarding agenda](OnBoardingAgendaTemplate) with the team and project manager.
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## Introducing tpi and tpo:
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## Introducing TPI and TPO:
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**_tpi**_ is The Tor Project, Inc - a US 501(c)(3) non-profit organization - if you are hired to work for Tor this organization is who will hire you, pay your salary, set up all your benefits etc.
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**_tpi**_ is The Tor Project, Inc - a US 501(c)(3) non-profit organization - if you are hired to work for Tor this organization is who will hire you, pay your salary, set up all your benefits, etc.
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**_tpo**_ is The Tor Project community - which includes everyone who is payed by tpi but also everyone else that makes Tor possible: users, tor relay operators, researchers, code contributors etc.
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**_tpo**_ is The Tor Project community - which includes everyone who is paid by TPI but also everyone else that makes Tor possible: users, tor relay operators, researchers, code contributors, etc.
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The graph below tries to show more or less how 'these layers' of our organization works.
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The graph below tries to show more or less how 'these layers' of our organization work.
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![tor_community_graph.jpg](tor_community_graph.jpg)
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## Tor Project's Staff
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All this teams have TPI's staff and volunteers from the community:
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All these teams have TPI's staff and volunteers from the community:
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* Network Team
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* Applications Team
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There is an Employee Handbook. Ask HR for it.
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## First week on the job: Get yourself oriented! :)
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### Quick overview of some internal tools we use
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* Harvest - timesheets and expenses
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* Reporting (per role/per team expectations)
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* Working Remote! (work and life balance tips)
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* Add yourself to the [people's page](https://www.torproject.org/about/people/) if you want to be in a public list from who is involved with Tor.
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* Working remotely! (work and life balance tips)
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* Add yourself to the [people's page](https://www.torproject.org/about/people/) if you want to be on a public list of who is involved with Tor.
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## Tor Culture
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Since long, we have had an anonymous account on our bugtrackers and other places. This account is 'cypherpunks' and is used by different people from Internet.
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For a long, we have had an anonymous account on our bug trackers and other places. This account is 'cypherpunks' and is used by different people on the Internet.
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### Organization History
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We are governed by a set of principles that are written into our [social contract](https://gitweb.torproject.org/community/policies.git/tree/social_contract.txt). They shows who we are and how we work. "This social contract is a promise
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from our internal community to the rest of the world, affirming our commitment
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to our beliefs"
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We are governed by a set of principles that are written into our [social contract](https://gitweb.torproject.org/community/policies.git/tree/social_contract.txt). They show who we are and how we work. "This social contract is a promise from our internal community to the rest of the world, affirming our commitment to our beliefs"
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1. We advance human rights by creating and deploying usable anonymity and
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privacy technologies.
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Ask before taking photos of people at events or Tor meetings.
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Be mindful when asking private questions as 'where do you live' or 'when is your birthday', not everyone like to share private information :)
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Be mindful when asking private questions such as 'Where do you live' or 'When is your birthday'. Not everyone like to share private information :)
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Social media engagement equals tracking people - be mindful when asking for people who likes Tor to engage with our social media buttons out there.
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Social media engagement equals tracking people - be mindful when asking for people who like Tor to engage with our social media buttons out there.
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There is a [code of conduct](https://gitweb.torproject.org/community/policies.git/tree/code_of_conduct.txt) that everybody at Tor (community or project) is expected to follow.
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