Ways To Contribute

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Payments

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Easy: Buy a Support Package | Vote | Review | 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

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Easy / Anyone

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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.

Vote

Please rate Whonix.

• https://www.chip.de/downloads/Whonix_151248127.html

Review

Please write reviews for Whonix.

• https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=whonix

Spread Awareness

Tell your friends, family and acquaintances about Whonix. Post Whonix news on your website, blog or social media.

Follow Whonix

Follow one or more of the following sources:

• Whonix News Blogs
• Whonix Twitter Profile
• Whonix Facebook Profile

Wikipedia Editing

Please help to improve Whonix's Wikipedia Page (English). See the feedback thread for further information. Or if you speak German, help keeping Whonix's German Wikipedia Page up to date.

Testing

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://forums.whonix.org/tags/testers-wanted

Run the Whonix Backup Script

Create a backup of the Whonix Anonymous Operating System website and source code. The more people that retain backups, the less likely Whonix can be erased from the history books. This can be done periodically, every now and then or when convenient.

See: How to Backup Whonix for further details.

Screenshots

Whonix requires more recent and awesome Screenshots. Donate them to Whonix or release them into the public domain.

Videos

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

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

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Follow Whonix Development

• 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.
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    • 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.

• issue tracker
  • get notifications from our issue tracker phabricator
  • Get E-Mail Notification for all New Maniphest Tasks

• subscribe to code changes

Just Start

Unfinished Code

Just start working on any open ticket. One example ticket:
https://phabricator.whonix.org/T135

Unfinished Research

Just start working on this ticket:
https://phabricator.whonix.org/T74

Unfinished Documentation

Just start working on this ticket:
https://phabricator.whonix.org/T588

Maintainer List

Component	Maintainer
Anon Connection Wizard	iry
AppArmor Profiles	troubadour
Apple macOS	ryjorny
Automated Test Suite	none
Censorship Circumvention Tools other than Bridges	iry
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

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

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

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

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.
• 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.

This is a volunteer position.

Audit Documentation Changes

Keep abreast of our wiki changes (rss ).

Audit Whonix

Audit Whonix security.

Answer Questions

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• 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
    • News
    • Support
    • Qubes-Whonix
    • KVM
    • VirtualBox
    • Physical Isolation
    • AppArmor
    • Development
    • Website
    • Organization
    • General Tor and Anonymity Talk
    • Arabic
    • Chinese
  • 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

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Knowledge about laws, and international taxes would be helpful. If you are interested, please e-mail Patrick Schleizer at adrelanos@riseup.net

License

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