GNU's Who

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Here is an alphabetical list of some GNU contributors. If you've developed a major GNU package or done a lot of work for the GNU project in some other way, we would like to list you also. Please ask webmasters@www.gnu.org to add you.

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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.

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 Blommington, Indiana.

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.

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

maintains GNU a2ps.

L. Peter Deutsch

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

John W. Eaton

is the author and maintainer of GNU Octave.

Adam Fedor

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.

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.

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/

Georg C. F. Greve

principal author and maintainer of The Xlogmaster, long term UN*X addict and author of other small projects like XDiskFree. Some of them will hopefully become GNU projects within the next year.

Michael Haardt

is currently working on GNU diction.

Karl Heuer

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

Prof. Masayuki Ida

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

Les Kopari

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

Franklin R. Jones

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

Phil Maker

is the author of the GNU Nana library and works, at least for a little while, in the School of IT at the Northern Territory University in Darwin, Northern Australia.

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.

Jim Meyering

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.

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.

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.

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 and the creator of GNU Ad HoC (yet to be released). He regularly contributes to many other GNU and non-GNU Free Software projects.

Krishna Padmasola

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

Ben Pfaff

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

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

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

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

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.

Steven M. Rubin

is the author of Electric, the GNU CAD system for IC and Schematic design, which he continues to maintain and enhance.

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.

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!

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) and maintains GNU Emacs.

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).

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

is working on the Hurd, and also does system administration, webmastering, and other tasks.

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.

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Updated: 8 Feb 1999 markg