The statement says, "Like many other nonprofits and small businesses, the crisis has hit us hard, ..."
It's a third of the team being lost, as far as I can see. But the statement doesn't spell out the reason - have donations dried up? Has Tor lost some sponsors?
Really depends, if you are big enough you can use this as a PR opportunity very similar to the Notre-Dame de Paris fire.
Lot's of news along the lines of "Company XY is doing this to help fight COVID-19!", everybody wanting to manufacture ventilators was just the most visible peak of that.
I've heard from friends in large nonprofits that they're expecting the funding landscape to change dramatically. Funders are potentially looking in very different directions now, presumably. Or at least nonprofits have to worry that they are, and it will be reflected in the next round of grant-seeking
Not the social services non-profits. Food security is crazy up, the one I’m associated with has an extra 1/2 of the yearly budget as surplus now because Feeding America just dumped 100 million donation from Bezos, the like FOUR relief packages congress has moved, and while physical food donation is at zero cash donations are slightly up.
Serious question, since Tor is basically the server-client which was finished a long time ago and then a browser that basically is a fork of Firefox ESR.
Well for one thing, it needs to defend Tor against many parties, some of them with essentially unlimited resources, who are working full-time to find holes to exploit.
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It's a third of the team being lost, as far as I can see. But the statement doesn't spell out the reason - have donations dried up? Has Tor lost some sponsors?
Lot's of news along the lines of "Company XY is doing this to help fight COVID-19!", everybody wanting to manufacture ventilators was just the most visible peak of that.
Serious question, since Tor is basically the server-client which was finished a long time ago and then a browser that basically is a fork of Firefox ESR.
Another place to look is their tor-project mailing list where in each meeting they list things to do/things done: (e.g. https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2020-Apri... ) https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/