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Whonix Authorship. Code Contributors, Artistic Contributors, Other Contributors

Whonix is developed by an independent team of contributors committed to the idea that privacy and security are essential rights.

Current Contributors

Table: Current Whonix Contributors

Name	Role
Patrick Schleizer	Whonix founder and lead developer
HulaHoop	Whonix KVM contributor, miscellaneous Research Whonix social media administrator
Jason Ayala	Creative consultant Usability testing and feedback English language fixes
TNT_BOM_BOM	IRC User Support (and any other chat platform) Testing Whonix wiki screenshots and Libre illustrations Whonix social media administrator Wiki auditor
madaidan	Kernel hardening AppArmor improvements Numerous, miscellaneous security commits
Sirus Shahini	tirdad (Tirdad kernel module for random ISN generation) Security consultant
onion_knight	Host operating system installer, ISO live boot (Whonix-Host)
Rob Stringer, (github @Mycobee)	Continuous Integration (CI) Package Parser

For the full list of Whonix components and the respective contributor, see here.

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Past Contributors

Whonix would not exist in its current form without the significant efforts of numerous contributors from the community. Gratitude is expressed to all past contributors, big or small.

Table: Previous Whonix Contributors

Name	Contributions
smarm	TorBOX wiki editor English language fixes python leaktest script creation Contact: smarm [at] hushmail dot com
Cypherpunks / Anonymous	TorBOX build shell script creation Initial TorBOX binary releases Rewrote the TorBOX guide for VirtualBox, instead of VMware Improved the iptables firewall configuration and added a hardening section
Joshua	Previous forum moderator at the legacy sourceforge Whonix forum Contributed a phone number so the Google+ and Youtube Whonix accounts could be created Documentation feedback Tested Whonix images
scarp	Feedback on Whonix source code and change commits Reviewed Whonix build documentation Tested building Whonix from source code Helped integrate TorChat into Whonix Reviewed matters concerning public relations
Anonymous	Documentation feedback
CJ	Created the original TorBOX logo
Cuan Knaggs	Created the Whonix stream isolation graphic Contact: revolver print media for graphical web design, web development, cms and e-commerce
fortasse	whonix.org server administrator Forum activity
WhonixQubes	First Whonix integration into Qubes
IronSoldier	IRC User Support
Ego	Windows Installer-deprecated Whonix Windows installer Forum user support and forum moderator
entropy	Testing Forum user support and forum moderator
troubadour	Tor Controller GUI and sdwdate-GUI contributor AppArmor profiles Whonix Setup Wizard msgdispatcher_dispatch_x sdwdate-gui Tor Controller GUI Miscellaneous
0brand	Testing, miscellaneous commits Wiki editor and research Forum user support and forum moderator Whonix Windows Installer
mig5	OnionShare contributor
iry	Anon Connection Wizard contributor Miscellaneous
Inga Bemman	GI Engineer, contributor
Algernon	Live Mode contributor Whonix CLI contributor Raspberry Pi Whonix-Gateway™ contributor Xfce Desktop Environment
Devitra or Lilias_sorcha	IRC User Support
torjunkie	Wiki editor and research Wiki documentation audit

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