Ways To Contribute
From Whonix
Easy: Donate | 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 ™
Donate[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.
Our Terms of Service apply.
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.
Vote[edit]
Please rate Whonix ™.
Review[edit]
Please write reviews for Whonix ™.
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]
Wikipedia Editing[edit]
Please help to improve Whonix ™ Wikipedia Page (English). [3] See the feedback thread for further information. Or if you speak German, help to keep Whonix ™ German Wikipedia Page up-to-date.
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://forums.whonix.org/tags/testers-wanted
Run the Whonix ™ Backup Script[edit]
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[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 ™ 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 | none |
| 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! |
| Whonix ™ Server Version | none |
| Whonix ™ CLI | Algernon |
| 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, 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, only a few packages are supported on Debian hosts. A lot of 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.
Audit Documentation Changes[edit]
Keep abreast of our wiki changes (rss 
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Audit Whonix ™[edit]
Audit Whonix ™ security.
Answer Questions[edit]
- Help other users on Stack Exchange by watching questions tagged with the whonix
- click on tor.se and unix.se and press
Watch Tag. - Also consider to subscribe to questions by e-mail,
- or by rss (tor.se rss ; unix.se rss ).
- click on tor.se and unix.se and press
- 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 laws, and international 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.
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.
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