Contribute
Ways To Contribute[edit]
Easy: Buy a Support Package | Spread | Follow | Testing | Screenshots | Videos | Marketing
Other: Answer User Questions | Wikipedia | Legal Consulting | Backup Whonix
Development: Just Start | Maintain a Component | Maintainer | General | Release Manager | Audit Documentation Changes | Audit Whonix
Buy a Support Package[edit]
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There are four ways to support Whonix financially:
1. Sponsoring a new feature - please get in contact for details.
2. Paying for Priority Support.
3. Paying for Priority Support in lieu of a donation. [1]
4. Making a charitable donation - please get in contact for further details.
Corporations who purchase Priority Support packages may be able to claim these as tax-deductible expenses - first consult a tax advisor, as this does not constitute tax advice.
Easy / Anyone[edit]
Feel free to do any or all of the following - any help is most welcome. When contributing, always consider your own protection and safety as the first priority, particularly if you are at risk.
Spread Awareness[edit]
Tell your friends, family and acquaintances about Whonix. Post Whonix news on your website, blog or social media.
Follow Whonix[edit]
Follow one or more of the following sources: [2]
Provide Feedback[edit]
Send feedback about Whonix to the user forums.
Wikipedia Editing[edit]
Please help to improve Whonix's Wikipedia Page. [3] See the feedback thread for further information.
Testing[edit]
Whonix needs more people to test new Whonix features, bug fixes and so on.
- Join us in testing new AppArmor profiles for improved security! Visit the Whonix AppArmor Forum.
- Perform numerous activity tests on both Whonix-Workstation and Whonix-Gateway, while running a separate, testers-only Whonix version based on the stable-proposed-updates APT repository.
- Test major, new Whonix versions prior to stable release - latest testers-wanted posts can be found here: https://www.whonix.org/blog/category/testers-wanted/
Screenshots[edit]
Whonix requires more recent and awesome Screenshots. Donate them to Whonix or release them into the public domain.
Videos[edit]
We need more Whonix Videos, particularly in languages other than English. They can be demonstration videos, promotional videos, conceptual videos or tutorials. Donate them to Whonix or release them into the public domain. We also have a video script waiting to be produced - please get in contact for further details.
Social Media / Marketing[edit]
Although social media platforms erode privacy goals by collecting a lot of user data, we believe they are important venues for marketing and communication in the modern era.
If you are willing to help or to maintain Whonix's Twitter, Google+, YouTube or identic.ca accounts or Facebook page, please get in contact.
Development[edit]
Follow Whonix Development[edit]
- Join the Whonix Development Forum
- The forums offers fine-tuned options to subscribe by e-mail. Tthere is on the right side a symbol
o. - (
Edit|New Topic|o)Watching- You will automatically watch all topics in these categories. You will be notified of every new post in every topic, and a count of new replies will be shown.Tracking- - You will automatically track all topics in these categories. You will be notified if someone mentions your @name or replies to you, and a count of new replies will be shown.Watching- First Post You will only be notified of the first post in each new topic in these categories.Normal- You will be notified if someone mentions your @name or replies to you.Muted- You will never be notified of anything about new topics in these categories, and they will not appear in latest.
- You can subscribe via RSS (Latest Posts);
- any URL of the forum can be turned into a feed by adding .rss or .json at the end.
- The forums offers fine-tuned options to subscribe by e-mail. Tthere is on the right side a symbol
Just Start[edit]
Unfinished Code[edit]
Just start working on any open ticket. One example ticket:
https://phabricator.whonix.org/T135
Unfinished Research[edit]
Just start working on this ticket:
https://phabricator.whonix.org/T74
Unfinished Documentation[edit]
Just start working on this ticket:
https://phabricator.whonix.org/T588
Maintainer List[edit]
| Component | Maintainer |
| Anon Connection Wizard | iry |
| AppArmor Profiles | troubadour |
| Apple macOS | none |
| Automated Test Suite [4] | none |
| Censorship Circumvention Tools other than Bridges | iry [5] |
| KVM | HulaHoop |
| Live DVD | none |
| Live USB | none |
| Microsoft Windows Installer | Ego |
| msgdispatcher_dispatch_x | troubadour |
| Physical Isolation | none |
| Qubes-Whonix | Patrick Schleizer |
| Raspberry Pi Whonix-Gateway | Algernon |
| sclockadj2 | none |
| sdwdate-daemon | troubadour |
| sdwdate-gui | troubadour |
| Seccomp / Firejail Profiles | Looking for firejail maintainer! |
| Server Version | none |
| terminal-only / builds / msgcollector cli | none |
| Tor Controller GUI | troubadour |
| Upgrading Whonix Packages from Source Code | none |
| Verifiable Builds | none |
| VirtualBox | none |
| VMware | none |
| Whonix Live | Algernon |
| whonix.org Server Administrator | mig5 |
| whonix-setup-wizard | troubadour |
| Whonix Wiki, Blog, Phabricator, Mailman | Patrick Schleizer |
| Wiki Documentation Audit | torjunkie |
| Wiki Documentation | 0brand |
| Whonix Welcome Page | iry |
Maintainer Responsibilities[edit]
The tasks of a maintainer include:
- Answering questions in the forums.
- Keeping the wiki up-to-date.
- Testing of installation, build and upgrade instructions.
- Following the issue tracker, squashing bugs and perhaps implementing new features relating to the maintained component.
- Otherwise self-initiated (guess)work and taking care of the component in question.
This is a volunteer position.
Package Maintainer[edit]
Whonix provides a lot of Debian packages; see Overview for further information. Due to limited Whonix team resources, these packages are untested and unmaintained in any other Linux distribution.
Would you be interested in maintaining one or more packages for use beyond Whonix? For example, in Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora or other distributions? Maintenance requirements would involve keeping up with code changes and releases, testing if these packages work outside of Whonix, eventually reporting bugs or adding new features, and answering user support requests.
If interested, ambitious package maintainers could even seek to have one or more Whonix packages accepted into a mainstream Linux distribution.
This is a volunteer position.
General Tasks[edit]
People with skills and interest in the following areas would also help:
- Good knowledge of Linux networking and iptables.
- AppArmor profile creation and testing of new AppArmor profiles for improved security.
- #!/bin/bash
- Programming languages like Python, Ruby, C, and others.
- Registration at our new issue tracker https://phabricator.whonix.org; consider subscribing.
- Participation in the development forum; consider hitting the "notify" button to subscribe.
- Discussion participation - login on github and go to https://github.com/Whonix/Whonix/issues and press "watch" for notifications about Whonix github issues (this is an old issue tracker and less important).
Release Manager[edit]
If you are willing to have your real name connected to the Whonix project and Tor, please continue reading.
Depending on your interests, your tasks could include:
- Building Whonix .ova images:
- Creating stable releases.
- Creating stable hotfix releases.
- Creating assorted other builds. [6]
- Building Whonix .libvirt images.
- Reporting bugs when builds fail.
- Signing and uploading releases.
- Updating the download page.
- Posting to the blog or mailing lists.
- Fixing simple build documentation.
- Dev/Redistribution
- Testing. [7]
This is a volunteer position.
KDE Desktop Developer[edit]
Are you familiar with KDE desktop scripting? For example, it would be immensely helpful if you know how to change the Desktop folder view using a script and could volunteer to answer such questions.
Audit Documentation Changes[edit]
Keep abreast of our wiki changes (rss 
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Audit Whonix[edit]
Audit Whonix security.
Backup Whonix[edit]
Run WhonixBackupScript to create a backup of the Whonix website and source code.
Answer Questions[edit]
- Help other users on Stack Exchange by subscribing to the whonix tag in tor.se and unix.se,
- either by e-mail,
- or by rss (tor.se rss ; unix.se rss ).
- Join the Whonix User Forum.
- The forums offers fine-tuned options to subscribe by e-mail. In each category
- there is on the right side a symbol
o. - (
Edit|New Topic|o)Watching- You will automatically watch all topics in these categories. You will be notified of every new post in every topic, and a count of new replies will be shown.Tracking- - You will automatically track all topics in these categories. You will be notified if someone mentions your @name or replies to you, and a count of new replies will be shown.Watching- First Post You will only be notified of the first post in each new topic in these categories.Normal- You will be notified if someone mentions your @name or replies to you.Muted- You will never be notified of anything about new topics in these categories, and they will not appear in latest.
- You can subscribe via RSS (Latest Posts);
- any URL of the forum can be turned into a feed by adding .rss or .json at the end.
- Join IRC room #Whonix on irc.oftc.net (Webchat).
Legal[edit]
Knowledge about German laws, gUG and taxes would be helpful. If you are interested, please e-mail Patrick Schleizer at adrelanos@riseup.net
License[edit]
The PayPal logo (60px-De-pp-logo-200px.png), the subscribe button (subscribeCC_LG.gif), the buy now button (Btn_buynowCC_LG.gif) and the pixel (pixel.gif) are copyrighted by PayPal. The Flattr badge (Flattr-badge-large.png) is copyrighted by Flattr.
Footnotes[edit]
- ↑ Users may send any amount of funds to Whonix. A consultation service commensurate with the amount contributed will be negotiated between both parties.
- ↑ First consider the risk of following Whonix on social media in your personal circumstances.
- ↑ Be aware that Tor exit nodes are usually prevented from editing.
- ↑ Port Tails Test Suite to Whonix or create a new one from scratch.
- ↑
meek-liteand Snowflake integration. - ↑
- Creating terminal-only Whonix-Gateway.
- Creating testers-only releases.
- Creating Whonix-Gnome-Workstation.
- Creating Whonix-LXDE-Workstation.
- Creating 64-bit builds.
- ↑ This will be easy and fast as soon as we add a script.
Want to make Whonix safer and more usable? We're looking for helping hands. Check out the Open Issues and development forum.
This is a wiki. Want to improve this page? Help is welcome and volunteer contributions are happily considered! See Conditions for Contributions to Whonix, then Edit! IP addresses are scrubbed, but editing over Tor is recommended. Edits are held for moderation.
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