GNU's Who

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Here is an alphabetical list of some GNU contributors. Contributers are also noted on our webmasters and translators of www.gnu.org pages.

If you have developed a major GNU package or have done a lot of work for the GNU Project in another way, we would like to list you also. Please ask webmasters@gnu.org to add you.

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This place is reserved for your name, when you have written free software for the GNU Project.

Henrik Abelsson

tries to do his part in bringing Free Software to the world by being a maintainer of GNU Messenger. Lives in Linköping, Sweden.

Mark Adler

is a co-author on gzip and wrote the decompression part.

Chris Allegretta

is the author and maintainer of the GNU nano text editor.

Tom Cato Amundsen <tomcato@iname.com>

is the author of GNU Solfege, a ear training program for GNOME, and he has also done a little work with fonts and mudela-book for GNU Lilypond.
He recently got his Master of Education in Music, but spends far too much time programming Solfege and using free software.

Luis M. Arteaga  <lmiguel@gnu.org>

As the GNU Translations Manager, Luis coordinates the effors of the several teams working on the translation of the GNU website, also being listed as Webmaster. He volunteers since 1999 and lives currently in Germany. Ocasionally gives speeches about the Free Software.

Susan Bassein

is the initial author and the maintainer of the Dap statistics and graphics package.

Karl Berry

has been involved with GNU since 1989. He co-authored the GNU font utilities, and currently works with the FSF as the volunteer maintainer of Texinfo. He also does a number of volunteer tasks relating to TeX distributions, especially Web2c.

Lorenzo Bettini

is the author of GNU Source-highlight: a collection of programs that given a source file produces a document with syntax highlighting (including java2html and cpp2html). He is also a developer and the maintainer of gengetopt.

Jim Blandy

has worked for the Free Software Foundation on and off for nine years. He currently maintains Guile, as a volunteer. Along with Richard Stallman, he was responsible for the release of version 19 of GNU Emacs. Jim lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>

was converted from the Windows world to the GNU/Linux world after he took over mantaining and developing GNU Smalltalk. He develops free software in time left free from studying and advocating the benefits of free software to his the-source-is-mine friends.

Stephen F. Booth

is the author and maintainer of GNU Cgicc.

Lars Brinkhoff

is the author and maintainer of httptunnel, and is porting GCC to PDP-10 and TOPS-20.

Daniel Bump

is a comaintainer of GNU Go.

James Craig Burley

wrote and maintains GNU Fortran (g77) as a volunteer for the Free Software Foundation for most of 1988 through the present. Craig lives in Ashland, Massachusetts.

Thomas Bushnell, BSG

is the principal architect of the GNU Hurd, which is the kernel for the GNU system. He previously maintained GNU tar, and even wrote a BASIC interpreter. He has done many other things too, some of them having nothing to do with computers.

Thomas was renamed from Michael Bushnell in 1996.

Robert J. Chassell

is speaking on free software topics and working to bring better documentation to free software.

Igor Támara Patiño

is translator to spanish of GNU web pages, he is co-mantainer of GNU Typist.

Antonio Cisternino

is the author of GNU SXML, the easiest way to implement a markup language. He is active in the development of many Open Source programs.

Allin Cottrell

is the author and maintainer of gretl. He is Professor of Economics at Wake Forest University, North Carolina

Rick Crelia

is a software evaluator for the GNU Project. He works as a UN*X sysadmin and support tech for the University System of Georgia Office of Instructional and Information Technology in Athens, GA, USA.

Loic Dachary

is the author and maintainer of GNU mifluz. He created and is a maintainer of Savannah, the hosting facitlity for the GNU project. He is a founding member of FSF Europe and FSFE France.

DJ Delorie

has been porting GNU software to MS-DOS since around 1989, culminating in DJGPP. Also wrote doschk, and maintains his own GNU web site with online doc and package listings. Currently works for Cygnus porting GNU software to Windows NT.

Akim Demaille

is a teacher at EPITA (École pour l'Informatique et les Techniques Advancées http://www.epita.fr). He maintains GNU a2ps and Autoconf, participates in Automake and Bison.

L. Peter Deutsch

is the principal author of GNU Ghostscript, which he continues to maintain and enhance.

Mikael Djurfeldt

is one of the maintainers for Guile and has ported and worked on development of GOOPS, Guile's object system. He is currently working on his PhD in Graybiel Lab at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT and is a graduate student in SANS (Studied of Artificial Neural Systems) at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Stockholm.

John W. Eaton

is the author and maintainer of GNU Octave.

Ben Elliston

is the maintainer of Autoconf. Ben lives in Canberra, Australia.

Ralf S. Engelschall

contributes to the free software community since many years. His most popular contributions are WML, ePerl, iSelect, MM, and NPS. He is also is a core team member of the Apache Group and has contributed some popular things to the Apache community, including mod_rewrite, mod_ssl, the DSO facility, the Apache Autoconf-style Interface (APACI), etc. He's also one of the founders of the OpenSSL project. Finally to the GNU Project he has contributed shtool, and Pth.

Adam Fedor <fedor@gnu.org>

is the maintainer of the GNUstep project. He's written and debugged many of the classes in GNUstep as well as a simple DPS emulator for X. Adam's hoping more people will volunteer so he will have more time for his real job.

Hilaire L. S. Fernandes

is the author of DrGeo and DrGenius geometry GNU software. He is also a volunteer at the OFSET organization, promoting free software development for education.

Brian J. Fox

has been involved with the FSF since 1986. He is the author of the GNU shell BASH, the GNU Texinfo compiler Makeinfo and the viewer Info, the GNU Readline Library, GNU Finger, parts of GDB and GNU Emacs, and other lesser projects.

Noah Friedman

is a former system administrator and release coordinator for the FSF. He still volunteers as time permits, maintaining a few Lisp programs for GNU Emacs and working with others to maintain various GNU packages.

Jean-loup Gailly

is the principal author of gzip which he continues to maintain.

Hugo Gayosso

Software evaluator for the GNU Project and coordinator of the spanish translation team for the GNU webpages.

Peter Gerwinski

maintains the GNU Pascal Compiler (GPC).

Lezz Giles

is the author and maintainer of GNU Trueprint.

Bob Glickstein

is a long-time intermittent contributor to GNU Emacs and other GNU software. He's the author of GNU Stow and the `sregex' Emacs Lisp package. He's also written other free software, notably Latte, and a handful of other packages available from his website at http://www.zanshin.com/~bobg/

Lisa M. Opus Goldstein

joined the FSF as a volunteer in February 1986, half a year after the FSF was founded, and was our second full-time employee. She stayed for eight years until departing to see the world and continue her education, returning in May of 2001 as our new Business Manager.

Georg C. F. Greve

Physicist and Free Software advocate. Author of the Brave GNU World, speaker for the GNU Project, name-giver of the GNU Lesser General Public License and principal author and maintainer of The Xlogmaster and some other software projects. Also initiator and president of the Free Software Foundation Europe.

Michael Haardt

is currently working on GNU diction.

Kathryn Ann Hargreaves

made the original regex code POSIX compliant. Update the manual to such. Coauthored the initial phases of the GNU font utilities with Karl Berry.

Masayuki Hatta

is currently maintaining Japanese translation of GNU Web pages.

Karl Heuer

once worked for the FSF, but has nothing else to say about himself.

Matthew Hiller

is the author and maintainer of Denemo, a graphical musical score editor that serves as a frontend to GNU Lilypond. He is presently a senior (fourth-year) undergraduate computer science major at Yale and has accepted a job with Cygnus as a gcc engineer; he will start working there (at Cygnus's Sunnyvale office) shortly after graduating.

Joris van der Hoeven <TeXmacs@math.u-psud.fr>

is the author and maintainer of GNU TeXmacs. Joris is a researcher in mathematics and computer science at the french CNRS institute. Besides GNU TeXmacs, Joris likes computer algebra and guitar playing.

Prof. Masayuki Ida

is our Vice President for Japan. He organizes Japanese events and works with GNU's friends in Japan.

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

is the maintainer of Gnus, the Emacs newsreader. Lars lives in Oslo, Norway.

Aubrey Jaffer

wrote or organized (and maintains) the JACAL Symbolic Mathematics System, the SLIB Portable Scheme Library, the TeXinfo and HTML versions of the Revised Reports on the Algorithmic Language Scheme, the SCM Scheme Implementation, the SIMSYNCH Digital Logic Simulation System, the INFOBAR change-bar annotater for INFO files, and the HITCH change annotater for HTML files.

Norbert de Jonge

is the author and maintainer of Ggradebook, the fully-featured GNU gradebook, and of several other programs that are freely available in the spirit of GNU. He also advocates the GNU philosophy in the Netherlands.

Sverre Hvammen Johansen

Author and maintainer of the GNU Simula Compiler, Cim.

Franklin R. Jones <grat@wyldwood.com>

(since late 1997) webmaster for gnu.org. A long time advocate of GNU things and a general unix sysadmin haque.

Steve Kemp

currently maintains the NTEmacs FAQ, and advocates the use of GNU software on the Windows platform.

Jason Kitcat, <jeep@thecouch.org>

Jason is the designer, author and current mainter for GNU.FREE, a heavy duty internet voting system. He currently lives in Brighton, UK and works on various projects including his story-telling site the couch.

He is active in the environmental, human rights and Free Software movements and enjoys speaking & writing about the issues they encompass. In his spare time he is a keen fencer, his preferred weapon being the sabre.

Les Kopari

has prepared some web pages, and wrote the awk script that produces the html for our Program-Package Cross Reference.

Werner Koch

is the principal author of GNU Privacy Guard, which he continues to develop and maintain.

Henning Köster

is the author of GNU POC.

W. G. Krebs

is the author of GNU Queue, which he still maintains. He is presently a Ph.D. candidate in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry at Yale University.

Stein Krogdahl

Author of Class Simulation included in the GNU Simula Compiler, Cim.

Bradley M. Kuhn (aka bkuhn)

began working with the FSF and the GNU project as a volunteer in the mid-1990s. In January 2000, bkuhn was hired part-time by the FSF to assist RMS with his ever-growing workload. In February 2001, bkuhn was hired full-time as Vice President of the FSF. In addition, he also serves as Clerk of the Corporation for the FSF. When not putting in overtime for his official duties, bkuhn contributes as a volunteer by hacking on various Free Software programs, and by developing a free tutorial manual for Perl.

Frank de Lange

is a software evaluator for the GNU Project and develops a Gnome/GTK port of the LyX document processor.

David MacKenzie

wrote or polished many of the GNU utilities and their documentation. He was the principal designer and author of Autoconf, and prototyped Automake. He has worked for the FSF and Cygnus in the past. Lately he has been creating scalable web server infrastructure for UUNET.

Robert Maier

is the primary author of the GNU plotting utilities, and the designer of the libxmi scan-conversion library. He professes mathematics at the University of Arizona.

Phil Maker

is the author of the GNU Nana library and is also one of the founders of Quoll Systems.

Andrew Makhorin

is the author and maintainer of GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit), Russia.

Gordon Matzigkeit

was the principal author of GNU Libtool. He is currently working on GNU system integration, with a focus on the GNU Hurd.

Roland McGrath

worked on the GNU Project from 1987 to 1996. He is the principal author of the GNU C Library, co-author of the GNU Hurd, co-author of GNU Make, and a major contributor to GNU Autoconf. He has also hacked on many other GNU programs over the years.

Emmanuel Medernach

is the author and maintainer of SpeedX.

Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>

Maintains the GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils.

Peter Miller

Has contributed to the GNU Gettext project, and also produce a range of GPLed software. He has over 20 years experience in software engineering including graphics, languages and compiler, networking and security, web tools, software process tools, and system administration and sysadmin tools.

Terje Mj°s

Author of the GNU Simula Compiler, Cim.

Jose M. Moya

is currently working on the GNU Hurd.

Ian Murdock

led the development of Debian GNU/Linux from its inception in 1993 until 1996.

Neelakanth Nadgir

Works as a webmaster for www.gnu.org

Phil Nelson

has worked on several GNU programs over the past few years. He wrote the initial version of GNU cpio. He also wrote GNU dbm and GNU bc. He is the maintainer of GNU bc.

David C. Niemi

has a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois. He maintains Unixbench and helps maintain Mtools. He has also contributed patches to the Linux kernel and various GNU utilities. He is the lead system administrator for the tux.org domain and writes papers on related topics.

Han-Wen Nienhuys

is one of the main authors of LilyPond, the music typesetter of the GNU Project. He currently is a PhD. student at the Computer Science Department of Utrecht University.

Jan Nieuwenhuizen

is one of the main authors of LilyPond, the music typesetter of the GNU Project. He is currently looking for a PhD. position, has a part-time job, and is hacking too much at Lily.

Alexandre Oliva

is one of the maintainers of GNU libtool, GNU Autoconf, and the creator of GNU Ad HoC and GNU CVS Utilities. He regularly contributes to many other GNU and non-GNU Free Software projects such as Kaffe, Amanda and Samba. As a researcher, he has created Guarana, a reflective architecture implemented as an extension of Kaffe.

Michael Opdenacker

is the new GNU Typist maintainer and translator to French of GNU web pages.

Steve Oualline

is a software engineer working in Southern California. He contributed the proto program to the GNU Project.

Krishna Padmasola <kpadmasola@hotmail.com>

converted GNU Emacs CC mode documentation to Texinfo format, which is now included with the Emacs distribution.

William M. Perry

is the author of Emacs/W3, the Emacs web browser.

Ben Pfaff

is the author of GNU libavl, which he continues to develop and maintain. He is also the author of GNU PSPP.

Vladimir Támara Patiño

is software evaluator of GNU, he helps in the education section of GNU, he is co-mantainer of GNU Typist, he advocates the values of free software (cooperation and freedom) in Colombia.

Gerald Pfeifer

is a member of the GCC steering committee and also maintains the web pages for GCC. In addition, he now also maintains gnatsweb, a web-based front-end for the GNATS bug tracking system.

Francesco Potortì

is the maintainer of etags, which is part of Emacs. He contributed the 68020 assembler code of gzip, ported Emacs to the Motorola Delta 68k architecture, wrote some Emacs packages, and did various minor things.

Chet Ramey <chet@po.cwru.edu>

is the Bash maintainer and is a networks engineer who works for Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio USA.

Anuradha Ratnaweera

is an engineering undergraduate student living in Sri Lanka. He is the author and maintainer of the GNU Font Editor (GFE).

Eric S. Raymond

wrote the VC (version control), GUD (Grand Unified Debugger) and asm (assembler) modes in GNU Emacs. He's also responsible for a lot of the header comments in the Emacs Lisp library. He wrote the pic documentation released with groff-1.11.

Arnold Robbins <arnold@gnu.org>

maintains GNU awk (gawk) and is the author of its manual, The GNU Awk User's Guide. He has written a series of articles on GNU for Linux Journal.

He has a wife and three children, and, among other things, is an amateur Talmudist, both Babylonian and Jerusalem. He is now living happily in Israel, although he still has the Georgia license plate GNUAWK.

Bernhard "Bero" Rosenkränzer <bero@redhat.com>

is the present maintainer of GNU grep, and a contributor to many Free Software projects. Presently employed by Red Hat.

Steven M. Rubin

is the author of Electric, the GNU CAD system for IC and Schematic design, which he continues to maintain and enhance. He is also the singer in Severe Tire Damage, the first band to play live on the Internet.

Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnu.org>

is the author of GNU barcode. He develops free software for a living and advocates free (``libero'') software for a mission.

Phillip Rulon

can't tell the difference between programming and system hacking. Does physics in his spare time.

Rob Savoye

is the author of DejaGnu, the GNU regression testing framework, and libgloss, a BSP library for the GNU tools for embedded systems.

William F. Schelter

is responsible for the Intel x86 platform port of the GNU C compiler. He contributed the first version of the gdb source level debugger interface in emacs and is currently responsible for GNU Common Lisp and for Maxima (symbolic computation program). He is a professor at the University of Texas in Austin.

Jeffrey B. Siegal

has been involved with GNU since 1985, when he helped Richard Stallman design GCC. He has contributed to many free software packages including Emacs, the GNU C Library, the X Window System and others. Jeff did the original port of many GNU pacakges to Windows NT.

Claude Simon <simon@epeios.org>

Author and maintainer of the mll2html program. Also author of the Epeios project.

Brett Smith <bcsmit1@engr.uky.edu>

is a newbie webmaster. He spends time handling minor issues, and correcting the mistakes he makes in the process.

Paul D. Smith

took over maintenance of GNU make from Roland McGrath. A long-time beta tester for GNU Emacs and author of snmp-mode.el and various other ELisp tidbits. User/tester of various GNU packages for over 10 years!

Prashant Srinivasan

is a webmaster for the GNU website, he also does other miscellaneous things around the site :-)

Richard Stallman

founded the GNU Project in 1984. He is the principal or initial author of GNU Emacs, the GNU C Compiler, the GNU Debugger GDB and parts of other packages. He is the President of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

Sam Steingold

is the co-maintainer of GNU CLISP - an ANSI Common Lisp implementation. He also contributes to GNU Emacs.

Michael Stutz

has done various volunteer work for GNU and is currently writing GNU/Linux: A Free Software Cookbook. He is interested in engineering a free society and has copylefted a novel and many recordings of music.

David Sugar<dyfet@ostel.com>

is one of the authors and principle maintainer of GNU Common C++, which is a portable general purpose C++ framework for application development. David Sugar also founded the GNU Bayonne project and is one of the principle founder of OST, a commercial entity that develops and promotes free GPL licensed telephony solutions.

Yngve Svendsen

is the maintainer of Gnatsweb, a web interface for the Gnats bug tracking system.

Marc Tardif <intmktg@cam.org>

is the author and maintainer of GNU Bool, a utility for finding files that match a boolean expression.

Ian Lance Taylor

wrote GNU/Taylor UUCP.He has contributed to many GNU packages. He currently maintains the GNU binutils.

Kresten Krab Thorup

wrote the runtime system for GNU Objective-C and the principal and initial author of the AUC TeX package for emacs, which he maintained until 1993.

Mike Vanier

a graduate student in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has just taken over maintaining GNU Shogi and xshogi. He is currently working hard updating and cleaning up this code for a new release which will hopefully happen in a few months (say by April 1999).

Rajesh Vaidheeswarran

is the maintainer of cons, author and maintainer of whitespace.el (ships with GNU Emacs) and a few other emacs-lisp libraries. He is also one of the GNU webmasters and sysdamins.

Michael C. Vergallen

runs the GNU Distribution Europe...He's the one Europeans blame when their order has not arrived on-time...even do he has not seen your orderform.

Paul Visscher

bkuhn recruited paulv to be a GNU and FSF Webmaster. After six months as a webmastering, Paul took over the position of Chief Webmaster from Jonas ╓berg. He also helps out by creating accounts on GNU and FSF machines.

Johan Vromans

is the author of forms-mode for GNU Emacs and of several other tools that are freely available in the spirit of GNU.

Mark H. Weaver

does system administration.

Melissa Weisshaus

has been with the GNU Project on and off (mostly on) since 1991. She has edited many GNU's Bulletins and has done varying amounts of work on most of the FSF's other publications.

Joel N. Weber II

helps with system administration. He set up kerberos, he set up the secondary mail server for gnu.org, and he did most of the work of migrating from the old mail and file server to the new in the fall of 2000. He has also handled a lot of the DNS configuration, set up the Cisco router for 59 Temple Place and set up support for remote console access and remote rebooting for machines in Boston. He has been a significant contributor to the internal system administration documentation, and has also done numerous more minor tasks. He hopes to find the time to someday write some music and security software.

Shigio Yamaguchi

is the author of GNU GLOBAL source code tag system that works the same way across diverse environments.

IIDA Yosiaki

maintains GNUjdoc and translates Brave GNU World into Japanese.

Brian Youmans

joined the FSF Distribution Office in January 1996. He deals with printing and shipping of FSF manuals, as well as copyright assignments, telephone orders, and lifting all boxes over five pounds.

Jonas ╓berg

is a GNU webmaster and system administrator. He also advocates the GNU philosophy in Sweden.

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