Difficult and/or impossible to know who is on the Board of Directors from our website
The current design of https://torproject.org/about/people makes it very difficult to know who on the People page is part of the Board of Directors. Additionally, it does not include all members of the board, including all of the new members who were elected more than a year ago.
In the past, the People page delineated between Core Tor and Board of Directors by separating the page. See the design here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220324044454/https://www.torproject.org/about/people/. It unfairly weighted the board with huge bios at the top of the page.
Back then, in an effort to resolve this imbalance, we integrated the Board of Directors into the People page alongside other Core Tor members. But:
- We failed to meaningful or consistently indicate who is a board member. (The existing board members say so in their bio, but it requires a CTRL+F, and each bio is formatted differently.) There is no visual indicator as to who is a board member.
- We have not historically kept this page up-to-date as regularly as it should be (see: a year passing without new board members being added).
IMHO, this is a sub-set of a problem with this page, but it's one that's very important to me. I think a lack of clarity around who is on the Board of the Tor Project is something that unintentionally appears like obfuscation.
I put myself in a position of a prospective funder, for example -- when I cannot find basic information about the nonprofit structure (e.g., the Board of Directors), I imagine losing faith in the maturity of the organization and its capacity to manage big funding opportunities. As a prospective donor, I imagine feeling like I'm not sure if this is a nonprofit, because I can't tell from the people page.
Ultimately, my reason for creating this ticket is that I wanted to remember who was on the board. I cannot find that information anywhere on our website. If I, a person who is intimately familiar with our published information, cannot find who is on the board easily -- can we expect others to do so?
@donuts @jag, I'm tagging you because maybe this is simply a design challenge. @pavel I'm tagging you because I bet you have thoughts on the weight or importance of this info.