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* (If it will take less time to do it than enter it as a task, just do it!)
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* If it's a piece of work with no real utility except as part of a larger whole, it's probably a task.
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## What's the lifetime of a project?
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### Initiating
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“Ideas” on what we are looking funding for comes from different sources from Tor’s staff and community.
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1. The organization’s goals for the year we are in. For example, for 2023 they are:
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* A Mature Tor Project (organization)
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* Stable income flows from a diverse funding base
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* Diverse and robust organization that meets our needs
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* Strong organizational culture focuses on employees and volunteers happiness
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* Global brand recognition - Tor means strong privacy
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* Full Access (product/projects)
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* Any person on the planet can access the Tor network
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* Any person on the planet can use the Tor network to access any websites or services online
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* Ensure the Tor network is diverse, healthy, stable, and scalable
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## What's the life cycle of a project?
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The following steps are the different phases that a project goes through at Tor, from the moment that we start dreaming it until it is completed.
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### Initiating/Ideation
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“Ideas” on what we are looking funding for comes from different sources from Tor’s staff and community. We gather them from the strategy goals for the organization, ideas from the team about what work is needed for the tools they maintain that are submitted via gitlab issues or mails to grants at torproject dot org:
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1. The organization’s goals for the year we are in. The strategy goals for 2023 are [a mature organization and full access to Tor](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/team/-/wikis/home#organization). For 2025-2030 we [discussed the strategy](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/team/-/wikis/Meetings/2024/Lisbon/5-years-strategy) during the last in-person Tor meeting.
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2.Ideas submitted to the [proposals tracker](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/operations/proposals/-/issues) we maintain.
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3. Mails sent to the grants@torproject.org about possible projects to fund.
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