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Why does Tor need a director? If it is truly a decentralized network, why should the project require centralized project administrators? Because of funding and donation? Let's put the whole spread the initiative PR stuff away (of course that cost money), plus the hosting cost, what else do they use the donation for?

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They use the funding to pay the developer who develop the Tor software/daemon and the engineering effort there is extraordinary.

Thousands of volunteers provide the network capacity that makes the daemon useful.

Thank you for the info. This is helpful to know.

[edit] Have you folks looked at https://gratipay.com/search as another source of crowdfunding for developers? I am not sure which one is more effective for general funding.

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