This place is reserved for your name, when you have
written
free software
for the GNU Project.
J. Abelardo Gutierrez <jabelardo@gmail.com>
is the maintainer of GNU Sather programming language. Also a contributor of some other Open Source projects.
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.
Musawir Ali <musawir@gmail.com>
is the maintainer of GNU Leg
(Libraries and Engines for Games). Currently pursuing a doctoral degree and brainstorming
prospective free software projects.
Chris Allegretta
is the author and maintainer of the GNU nano text editor.
Marcos Serrou do Amaral
is maintainer of GNU UnRTF.
Tom Cato Amundsen <tca@gnu.org>
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>
formerly administered web pages written in other languages
apart from English. Also coordinated the
translation efforts
until he retired in 2003, also being listed
as Webmaster. He volunteers since 1999 and lives currently in Germany.
Occasionally gives speeches about Free Software.
Anand Babu <ab@gnu.org>
is the author and maintainer of FreeIPMI. He
is a member of the FSF-India working group, currently leads the Free Software division of California Digital as CTO and built the world's
second fastest Super Computer, code named "Thunder", entirely out of Free Software. Occasionally, he gives speeches about 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 rms visited his home in 1986 or so.
He co-authored the GNU font
utilities, and is currently the volunteer maintainer of Texinfo and Hello, as well as contributing to Gnulib and co-leading the GNU Evaluation Team. He also does
a number of volunteer tasks relating to TeX distributions,
especially TeX Live, and
co-authored TeX for the
Impatient.
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.
Jeff Binder
is a co-author and co-maintainer of GNU Leg
(Libraries and Engines for Games).
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 maintaining 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.
Maurizio Boriani <baux@member.fsf.org>
Author of guile-dbi (and postgres, myslq db driver), contributor to GNU/Hurd and other various contributions.
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.
Ales
Cepek is the co-author and maintainer of the C++
package
GNU GaMa for
adjustment of geodetic networks.
Igor Támara Patiño
is translator to Spanish of GNU web pages, he is co-maintainer 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.
Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org>
is the sponsor and director of BlastWave project which
allows users to freely package GNU software for free access by anyone. Currently, they only build packages
for Solaris, but they will offer the same service for GNU/Linux once Sun makes it available to them.
Allin Cottrell
is the author and maintainer of
gretl.
He is Professor of Economics at Wake Forest University, North
Carolina
Rick
Crelia
is a free software advocate and has worked in the
past with the GNU software evaluation group. He
currently works as a system administrator for the
Valley Library at Oregon State University in
Corvallis, OR, USA.
Loic Dachary
is the author and maintainer of GNU
mifluz. He created and is a maintainer of Savannah, the hosting
facility for the GNU project. He is a founding member of
FSF Europe and
FSFE France.
Al Davis
is the principal author and maintainer of GnuCap, the Gnu Circuit
Analysis Package. He is a professor of electrical engineering at
Idaho State University
(http://www.isu.edu/)
with research in analog and mixed signal design and simulation.
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.
Antonio Diaz
is the author and maintainer of the
Ocrad project.
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.
Jason M. Felice
is the author and maintainer of
GNU Patchwork.
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.
Laurence Finston
is the author and maintainer of
3DLDF, a
package for three-dimensional drawing with MetaPost output.
Claudio Fontana <claudio@gnu.org>
is the original author and maintainer of GNU Source Installer, and contributes to other Free Software projects.
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.
Jean-Dominique Frattini
is a co-author and co-maintainer of GNU Leg
(Libraries and Engines for Games).
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 to be our new Business Manager
until September 2004.
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.
Christian Grothoff
is the principal author maintainer of
GNUnet and
libextractor.
He currently works on his Ph.D. in Computer Science.
Christopher
Gutteridge
is the main author of GNU EPrints (well, version 2, anyway). He can be found
working as a System Programmer, Webmaster, UNIX Admin, Teaching Support and
EPrints developer and support (often all at once) at the
Department of Electronics and Computer
Science at the University of Southampton. Chris denies that the motivation
behind GNU EPrints was that otherwise his greatest contribution to Free
Software would be the GIMP coffee stain
script-fu effect.
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
and was chief GNU translation coordinator, who administers web translation efforts
into other languages apart from English, after Luis M. Arteaga. He is one of
the GNU webmasters, too.
Karl Heuer
once worked for the FSF, but has nothing else to say about himself.
David R.
Hill <david@firethorne.com>
is principal and co-author for the GnuSpeech text-speech-system based on
an articulatory tube-model synthesiser, and a speech-event form of parameter
generation. His interests include speech recognition and synthesis
(phonology, rhythm, intonation and models), speech animation, and AI.
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
was the original author of GNU Queue.
Stein Krogdahl
Author of Class Simulation included in
the GNU Simula Compiler, Cim.
Bradley M. Kuhn (aka bkuhn)
began working with the Free Software Foundation and the GNU project as
a volunteer in the mid-1990s. In February 2001, he was hired full-time,
and now serves as Executive Director of the FSF. When not putting in
overtime for his official duties, Mr. Kuhn contributes to GNU as a
volunteer by hacking on various Free Software programs and Free
Documentation.
Frank de Lange
is a software evaluator for the GNU Project and develops a Gnome/GTK
port of the LyX document processor.
Mats Lidell
maintainer of GNU Hyperbole.
Jim Lowe <jhlowe@acm.org>
has been a user and advocate of GNU/Linux systems since 1992.
His current interest relating to GNU/Linux systems is software
administration. He's author and maintainer of
GNU swbis, an implementation of the
POSIX packaging standard with features and extensions to promote the
use of strong authentication in the distribution and installation of
free software packages. Jim lives and works in Richmond, Virginia USA.
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.
Leonard Manzara <manzara@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
is co-author for the GnuSpeech text-speech-system based on an articulatory
tube-model synthesiser, and a speech-event form of parameter generation. His
interests include digital audio signal processing and physical-modelling sound
synthesis.
José E. Marchesi
<jemarch@gnu.org>
Known as 'jemarch' on free software forums, Jose E. Marchesi serves
the GNU Project coordinating GNU
Spain, attending tasks@gnu.org
and updating the GNU User Groups list. He is also a member of the GNU
software evaluation team. He maintain and develop GNU ACM, and
co-maintain the Free Mach Documentation project and the PowerPC
port of the Hurd kernel. Occasionally gives speeches about Free Software
on Spain.
Lalo Martins
is a Brazilian young man who has, since his first contact with
computers in the '80s, found it hard to understand that some people
claim you're not supposed to share and modify software. When he came
across with Free Software and GNU in 1996 (thanks to DJ Delorie), he immediatly became been a
supporter and advocate. His job consists in Zope development and everything he does
is strictly Free Software. In late 2002 joined the Webmasters and
Evaluators teams, and is striving to set aside some time to do some
coding.
Gordon Matzigkeit
was the principal author of
GNU Libtool. He is
currently working on GNU system integration, with
a focus on the GNU Hurd.
Nikos Mavroyanopoulos
is the author of the gnutls library.
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.
Dale Mellor
is the author and maintainer of GNU mcron, a traditional cron replacement which also accepts job specifications in Guile (Scheme).
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 Mjřs
Author of
the GNU Simula Compiler, Cim.
Aymeric Moizard <jack@atosc.org>
He is a GNU/Linux fan since the early days and he is the author of
the GNU oSIP library.
He is working in the IP telecom area in the hope that one day
everybody will unplug their 50 years old traditional phone for ever.
Guillaume Morin <gmorin@gnu.org>
is the current GNU Stow maintainer. He
is a Savannah contributor and
administrator. He is also a Debian
developer.
Jose M. Moya
is currently working on the GNU
Hurd.
Alex Muntada
<alexm@gnu.org>
started as a member of the GNU
Evaluation Team, became the translator into Catalan of the Georg's Brave GNU World and member of the
Catalan translation team in early 2003. Since late 2004, he's also the
GNU Translations Manager, who coordinates the efforts of the several teams
working on the translation of the GNU website, after Masayuki Hatta.
Ian Murdock
led the development of Debian
GNU/Linux from its inception in 1993 until 1996.
Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
was one of the GNU webmasters. He is a strong supporter and advocate of
Free Software and is also one of the Debian Developers.
Neelakanth Nadgir
Works as a webmaster for www.gnu.org
Raif S. Naffah <raif@fl.net.au>
is the maintainer, and one of the authors, of GNU Crypto.
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.
Jonas Öberg
is a GNU webmaster and system administrator. He also advocates the
GNU philosophy in Sweden.
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 <kp2@njitalumni.org>
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.
Gerald
Pfeifer
is a member of the GCC steering committee
and maintains the web pages (and documentation) for GCC.
In addition, between 2000 and 2003 he maintained gnatsweb, a web-based
front-end for the GNATS bug tracking
system.
Wojciech Polak
is the author and maintainer of the
GNU Anubis.
He is also a developer of
GNU
Mailutils.
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.
Sergey
Poznyakoff
is the author and maintainer of
GNU Radius. He is
also a developer and co-maintainer of several other GNU
projects, among them Mailutils
and Tar.
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 AT arklinux DOT org
is the present maintainer of GNU grep, and a contributor to many Free
Software projects.
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.
Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz (aka jao) <jao@gnu.org>
is a Physicist and author of the GNU
MDK package, an emulator of Donald Knuth's MIX mythical computer.
Filippo Rusconi
is the author and maintainer of GNU polyxmass.
This software suite allows users to perform mass spectrometric data simulations
and analyses for whatever polymer chemistry type and polymer sequence.
Luca Saiu <positrone@freemail.it>
has been a user of GNU/Linux systems and a proud Free Software
advocate since 1995. His current main interests are programming
languages and their implementation. He's author and maintainer of
GNU epsilon, a purely functional
language implementation. Luca lives, studies and works in Tuscany,
Italy.
Aleksandar B. Samardzic
<asamardzic@matf.bg.ac.yu>
is the author and maintainer of the
GNU libmatheval
library.
Henrik Sandklef
<hesa@gnu.org>
is the author and maintainer of Xnee.
He also advocates the GNU philosophy in Sweden.
Rob
Savoye
is the author of DejaGnu, the GNU regression testing framework, and
libgloss, a BSP library for the GNU tools for embedded systems.
Craig Schock <schock@afox.org>
is system architect and co-author for the GnuSpeech text-speech-system
based on an articulatory tube-model synthesiser, and a speech-event form of
parameter generation. His interests include computer generated speech
intonation, distributed object systems,computer security and web
applications.
Charles Henry Schoonover
is the author and maintainer of WebPublish (http://www.gnu.org/software/webpublish).
He is also a libertarian political activist who has demonstrated for
legalizing marijuana by smoking a joint at a Harlingen, Texas city coucil
meeting and also by running for Congress.
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 packages 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>
was GNU chief webmaster. He also spent time intern at the FSF Distribution Office.
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.
Roland Stigge
is the maintainer of GNU
GTick.
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 <mtardif@interunion.ca>
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 GNU binutils and many other packages.
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.
Daniel Valentine
is the author and maintainer of the GNU package
combine.
Mike Vanier
a graduate student in Computation and Neural Systems at the California
Institute of Technology (Caltech) has taken over maintaining GNU
Shogi and xshogi.
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 sy
sadmins.
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 Öberg.
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.
Ofer Waldman (a.k.a the duke)
<the_duke at intermail.co.il>
Ofer was the GNU project web translations
co-coordinator and backup person with Masayuki Hatta.
Chad C. Walstrom
<chewie@gnu.org>
is the current maintainer of GNU GNATS. After using GNATS
for years in his various sysadmin and programming jobs, he felt it was time
to give back to the community. In college, he was addicted to emacs, but was
converted to the dark side, vim, in his professional career. Don't hold it
against him.
Mark H. Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
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 51 Franklin St 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.
Carlo Wood
is the maintainer of GNU
which, libcwd,
ircu and prototype
Makefiles, and has been the maintainer of GNU
indent. Carlo is best known for his improvements to IRC
(starting
with undernet) but
contributed to numerous other projects. For the past few
years he worked mostly on libcw, an ambitious C++
project existing of building blocks for heavy-duty networking
applications.
Shigio Yamaguchi
is the author of GNU GLOBAL
source code tag system that works the same way across diverse environments.
IIDA Yosiaki <iida@ring.gr.jp>
maintains
GNUjdoc
and translates
Brave GNU World
into Japanese.
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