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There are five 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.

5. Invest.

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 ™.

https://www.chip.de/downloads/Whonix_151248127.html ^[archive]

Review[edit]

Please write reviews for Whonix ™.

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=whonix ^[archive]

Spread Awareness[edit]

Tell your friends, family and acquaintances about Whonix ™. Post Whonix ™ news ^[archive] 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 ^[archive] (English). ^[3] See the feedback thread ^[archive] for further information. Or if you speak German, help to keep Whonix ™ German Wikipedia Page ^[archive] 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 ^[archive].
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 ^[archive]

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 ^[archive].

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 ^[archive]. 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 ^[archive]
- 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 ^[archive]);
  - any URL of the forum can be turned into a feed by adding .rss or .json at the end.

issue tracker ^[archive]
- get notifications from our issue tracker phabricator
- Get E-Mail Notification for all New Maniphest Tasks

subscribe to code changes

Just Start[edit]

Maintainer List[edit]

Component ^[archive]	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	0brand
msgdispatcher_dispatch_x ^[archive]	troubadour
Physical Isolation	none
Qubes-Whonix ™	Patrick Schleizer
Raspberry Pi Whonix-Gateway ™	none
sclockadj2	none
sdwdate-daemon ^[archive]	troubadour
sdwdate-gui ^[archive]	troubadour
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 / sysadmin / webmaster	none
whonix-setup-wizard ^[archive]	troubadour
Wiki Documentation Audit	torjunkie
Wiki Documentation	0brand
Whonix ™ Welcome Page ^[archive]	iry
Whonix ™ Homepage ^[archive]	none looking for volunteer ^[archive]

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 ^[archive] 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 ^[archive]; consider subscribing.
Participation in the development forum ^[archive]; consider hitting the "notify" button to subscribe.
Discussion participation - login on github and go to https://github.com/Whonix/Whonix/issues ^[archive] 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 ^[archive] ).

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 ^[archive] and unix.se ^[archive] and press Watch Tag.
- Also consider to subscribe to questions by e-mail ^[archive],
- or by rss (tor.se rss ^[archive] ; unix.se rss ^[archive] ).

Join the Whonix ™ User Forum ^[archive].
- The forums offers fine-tuned options to subscribe by e-mail. In each category
  - News ^[archive]
  - Support ^[archive]
  - Qubes-Whonix ™ ^[archive]
  - KVM ^[archive]
  - VirtualBox ^[archive]
  - Physical Isolation ^[archive]
  - AppArmor ^[archive]
  - Development ^[archive]
  - Website ^[archive]
  - Organization ^[archive]
  - General Tor and Anonymity Talk ^[archive]
  - Arabic ^[archive]
  - Chinese ^[archive]
- 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 ^[archive]);
  - 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 ^[archive]).

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 ^[archive] to Whonix ™ or create a new one from scratch.
↑ meek-lite and Snowflake integration ^[archive].
↑
- - 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.

Whonix ™ is Supported by Evolution Host DDoS Protected VPS. Stay private and get your VPS with Bitcoin or Monero.

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Please help us to improve the Whonix Wikipedia Page ^[archive]. Also see the feedback thread ^[archive].

This is a wiki. Want to improve this page? Help is welcome and volunteer contributions are happily considered! Read, understand and agree to Conditions for Contributions to Whonix ™, then Edit! Edits are held for moderation.

Copyright (C) 2012 - 2019 ENCRYPTED SUPPORT LP. Whonix ™ is a trademark. Whonix ™ is a licensee ^[archive] of the Open Invention Network ^[archive]. Unless otherwise noted, the content of this page is copyrighted and licensed under the same Freedom Software license as Whonix ™ itself. (Why?)

Whonix ™ is a derivative of and not affiliated with Debian ^[archive]. Debian is a registered trademark ^[archive] owned by Software in the Public Interest, Inc ^[archive].

Whonix ™ is produced independently from the Tor® ^[archive] anonymity software and carries no guarantee from The Tor Project ^[archive] about quality, suitability or anything else.

By using our website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agreed to our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Terms of Service, and E-Sign Consent. Whonix ™ is provided by ENCRYPTED SUPPORT LP. See Imprint.

[1] Users may send any amount of funds to Whonix ™. A consultation service commensurate with the amount contributed will be negotiated between both parties.

[2] First consider the risk of following Whonix ™ on social media in your personal circumstances.

[3] Be aware that Tor exit nodes are usually prevented from editing.

[4] Port Tails Test Suite ^[archive] to Whonix ™ or create a new one from scratch.

[5] meek-lite and Snowflake integration ^[archive].

[6] 
Creating terminal-only Whonix-Gateway ™.

Creating testers-only releases.

Creating Whonix ™-Gnome-Workstation.

Creating Whonix ™-LXDE-Workstation.

Creating 64-bit builds.

[7] Creating terminal-only Whonix-Gateway ™.

Creating testers-only releases.

Creating Whonix ™-Gnome-Workstation.

Creating Whonix ™-LXDE-Workstation.

Creating 64-bit builds.

[8] Creating terminal-only Whonix-Gateway ™.

[9] Creating testers-only releases.

[10] Creating Whonix ™-Gnome-Workstation.

[11] Creating Whonix ™-LXDE-Workstation.

[12] Creating 64-bit builds.

[7] This will be easy and fast as soon as we add a script.

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Review[edit]

Spread Awareness[edit]

Follow Whonix ™[edit]

Wikipedia Editing[edit]

Testing[edit]

Run the Whonix ™ Backup Script[edit]

Screenshots[edit]

Videos[edit]

Social Media / Marketing[edit]

Development[edit]

Follow Whonix ™ Development[edit]

Just Start[edit]

Unfinished Code[edit]

Homepage[edit]

Unfinished Research[edit]

Unfinished Documentation[edit]

Maintainer List[edit]

Maintainer Responsibilities[edit]

Package Maintainer[edit]

General Tasks[edit]

Release Manager[edit]

Audit Documentation Changes[edit]

Audit Whonix ™[edit]

Answer Questions[edit]

Legal[edit]

License[edit]

Footnotes[edit]