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About the Scribus Team

About the Scribus Team (in order of joining)

Franz Schmid - "Our Linus..." original author, main coder, software developer for a publishing company

Peter Linnell - aka mrdocs - started with testing the 0.3.6 version, took over the doc writing for 0.5.0; tester, rpm builder, web master for www.scribus.net, Pre-Press/IT consultant for publishing and e-commerce companies.

Craig Bradney - aka MrB - started with 1.1.1, testing, setup of docs.scribus.net and bugs.scribus.net, manages the IRC channel #scribus on freenode.net; IT Manager for global e-commerce company.

Petr Vaněk - started with 1.1.4, plug-in specialist, has written several Scribus plug-ins and the how-to for Scribus plug-in writing; software engineer.

Riku Leino - aka Tsoots - started with 1.1.5, wrote the Document Template plug-in and the new OO/HTML/ importers for 1.2.2; IT Manager for large non-profit in Finland.

Craig Ringer - Works on the scripter, build system and Mac OSX port. Contributed fixes for Python and other enhancements; IT/DTP administrator for daily newspaper.

Andreas Vox - pronounced [fox] -- started with 1.3.0. ported to Mac native (Scribus/Aqua), font api specialist, hates C++, likes good layout and has a stupid comment for anything: software developer

Jean Ghali - handles the Windows native port and much of the color management coding, pre-press and software engineer for printing company.

Oleksandr Moskalenko, Phd.- aka malex - maintainer of Scribus Debian packages, helps with internationalization, translation, and user support in #scribus on IRC; molecular biologist.

The Supporting Cast and Former Developers

Active users/contributors who have added to the Scribus community (in no particular order):

Paul F. Johnson - aka Nodoid - started with sending patches for 0.8, did code review and code optimizing.

Steve Callcott - aka sjc - wrote the Python plugin font sampler, which showed the real power of the Python Scripter in Scribus; works on systems control and consumer electronics, custom software and support.

Alessandro Rimoldi - added fixes for localization and code clean-ups.

J.J. Sarton - added some key patches for improving image handling and other improvements. Added the GIMP support to Scribus.

Alistair Robinson - added some important fixes for font handling in early Scribus versions. Also wrote the clever hack for GIMP to create CMYK TIFFs.

Maciej Hanski - Polish translator and writer of the PDF Forms how-to. One of the primary contributors to the scribus wiki.

Yves Ceccone- French translator, wrote many of the Python scripts included with Scribus, maintained a large number of Docs for Scribus in French.

Martin Costabel - maintains the Scribus port and support libraries for Fink, allowing Scribus to run under X11 and MacOSX.

Niyam Bhushan - contributed a terrific tutorial on Scribus.

Marti Maria - for answering my tons of questions and providing littlecms.

Johannes Rüschel - Excellent bug finder, German translator; 19, German Civil Service

Alexandre Prokoudine - Russian Translator, has helped a bunch with internationalization issues, as well as designing UI improvements; professional technical writer.

"Lukasz [DeeJay1] Jernas" - PLD Linux package maintainer and user support in #scribus

Howard White - Retired Pre-Press Engineer - Testing and testing and more testing. Always daring to test bleeding edge code.

Cedric Gemy - Graphics Professor and author - UI testing and feedback.

Christoph Schäfer - Our leading bug reporter and tester for bleeding edge Scribus. Wiki editor and doc translator/proofreader.