al smithThe Tor Project
Welcome to the Tor Project's wiki page. We maintain this Gitlab instance and some of the software behind the Tor network.
Official Resources
This is a list of places where the Tor project is maintaining resources and information about Tor.
- The Tor Project's official website.
- Support Portal
- Community Portal
- Tor News: a monthly newsletter with updates and opportunities
- Meetings: Information about Tor dev meetings and hackathons, past and future.
- Tor in the Media.
Contributions
- Official bug-tracker for Tor is now GitLab.
- Interested in Volunteering?
- Onboarding information.
Documentation
- Official documentation: will soon move to the Tor Project's new developer portal when is ready.
- The Tor Relay Guide: to help run the Tor network.
- Tor Browser User Manual: learning on how to use the Tor Browser.
Services
- Official Tor package archive: contains archived software releases, monthly reports, old metrics, etc.
- Official Tor media archive: contains all images, videos, and misc files.
- Check: is a service to check if you are currently using Tor
- Metrics website: metrics and graphs based on Tor network data.
- Status: check the status of Tor Project services.
- Onion addresses: list of onion services run by the Tor Project.
Projects
- How project management is happening at Tor.
- List of active products we are maintaining.
- List of sponsored projects that we are working on in 2021.
- List of projects already done.
- Internships we are running:
Organization
The Tor Project is not a horizontal organization but we try to make decisions as democratic as possible. We have a structure where we operate and maintain the different pieces of software in teams. Our teams meet once a week to coordinate work and also meet frequently to coordinate projects. We have a project manager that facilitates the coordination and keeps an eye on the roadmaps to get to deadlines on time.
As of August 2021, we are starting to implement OKRs to set goals per team and role and track outcomes and organize the work ahead.
Teams
- Anti-censorship team meets every Thursday in irc and is working on this roadmap.
- Applications team (Tor Browser) meets every Monday in irc.oftc.net and is working on this roadmap.
- Communications & Operations team.
- Community team meets monthly and is working on this roadmap.
- Fundraising team.
- Network team meets weekly and is working on this roadmap.
- Network Health team meets weekly and is working on this roadmap and metric's roadmap. We are merging metrics into network health and will be a process that will happen through 2022.
- Sysadmin team meets monthly and is working on this roadmap.
- UX team meets monthly and is working on this roadmap.
- Web team meets occasionally and cares about this roadmap during sysadmin team's meetings.
Community Council
The Community Council is an elected body of Tor Core Contributors who are available to help resolve intra-community disputes.
All Hands Meetings
We run weekly internal meetings with this schedule:
- Every two months we have a financial update.
- Every three months we run a demo day.
- Quarterly we revisit priorities.
- Quarterly we do a retrospective.
We have Tor DEMO days every three months. Here you can read notes on past DEMOs.
Archived the homepage of the wiki page in Trac: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor