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Contributors are also noted on our <a href="/people/webmeisters.html">webmasters</a> and <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html#TranslationsUnderway"> translators of www.gnu.org</a> pages. </p> <p>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 <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org"><webmasters@gnu.org></a> to add you (Note that you are responsible for maintaining your own entry up-to-date, and should notify the webmasters of any change; dead links will be eliminated.) </p> <p>Note that our policy is not to make links to pages or sites whose subject is proprietary software, and we also avoid making links to pages or sites that are sales-oriented in their tone or focus. Please keep this in mind when writing your entry. </p> <p>If you are looking in particular for someone to give a speech or participate in an event to represent the GNU Project or the free software movement, please <a href="/people/speakers.html">see our speaker page</a>. </p> <hr /> <p><a href="#skipalphalist">Skip over this list</a></p> <ul class="inline-list"> <li>Name begins with: </li> <li><a href="#a">A</a></li> <li><a href="#b">B</a></li> <li><a href="#c">C</a></li> <li><a href="#d">D</a></li> <li><a href="#e">E</a></li> <li><a href="#f">F</a></li> <li><a href="#g">G</a></li> <li><a href="#h">H</a></li> <li><a href="#i">I</a></li> <li><a href="#j">J</a></li> <li><a href="#k">K</a></li> <li><a href="#l">L</a></li> <li><a href="#m">M</a></li> <li><a href="#n">N</a></li> <li><a href="#o">O</a></li> <li><a href="#p">P</a></li> <li>Q</li> <li><a href="#r">R</a></li> <li><a href="#s">S</a></li> <li><a href="#t">T</a></li> <li>U</li> <li>V</li> <li><a href="#w">W</a></li> <li>X</li> <li><a href="#y">Y</a></li> <li><a href="#z">Z</a></li> </ul> <p id="skipalphalist">If you would like your name to appear on this list, we have reserved a space for you, when you start writing <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a>.</p> <h3 id="a">A</h3> <h4>Adam Bilbrough <a href="mailto:abilbrou@gmail.com"> <abilbrou@gmail.com></a></h4> <p>Is the maintainer of GNU OrgaDoc. He has been a user of GNU/Linux since 2007.</p> <h4>Adam Fedor <a href="mailto:fedor@gnu.org"><fedor@gnu.org></a></h4> <p> Was 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. </p> <h4><a href="http://adamspiers.org/">Adam Spiers</a></h4> <p>Is co-maintainer of <a href="/s/stow/">GNU Stow</a> and occasional contributor to other GNU software such as <a href="http://www.lilypond.org/">GNU LilyPond</a> and <a href="http://orgmode.org/">Org-Mode</a>. He has used GNU software for over half his life, especially <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">GNU/Linux</a> and <a href="/s/emacs/">GNU Emacs</a>.</p> <h4><a href="https://www.codeartnow.com">Adrienne G. Thompson</a> <<a href="mailto:agt@codeartnow.com">agt@codeartnow.com</a>></h4> <p>Is fascinated by robot vision. She is the sole author of <a href="/software/c-graph/">GNU C-Graph</a>, the product of an imagined nexus between the movie "Blade Runner" and her 1983 BSc. Electrical Engineering Honours dissertation "Interactive Computer Package Demonstrating: Sampling Convolution and the FFT".</p> <p>Adrienne lives in Jamaica.</p> <h4><a href="https://www.lrde.epita.fr/wiki/User:Akim">Akim Demaille</a></h4> <p>Akim maintained GNU <a href="/software/a2ps/">a2ps</a> and <a href="/software/autoconf/">Autoconf</a>, contributed to <a href="/software/automake/">Automake</a>, and maintains <a href="/software/bison/">Bison</a>. He is a teacher/researcher at <a href="https://www.lrde.epita.fr/wiki/Main_Page">LRDE</a>, the <a href="https://www.epita.fr">EPITA</a> R&D laboratory. He is working on <a href="https://www.lrde.epita.fr/wiki/Vcsn">Vcsn</a>, a platform dedicated to automata and rational expressions, composed of an efficient C++ library, a Python interface, and a graphical user interface on top of IPython.</p> <h4>Al Davis</h4> <p>Is the principal author and maintainer of GnuCap, the Gnu Circuit Analysis Package. He is a professor of electrical engineering at Idaho State University (<a href="http://www.isu.edu/">http://www.isu.edu/</a>) with research in analog and mixed signal design and simulation. </p> <h4>Alejandro Sanchez Acosta <a href="mailto:asanchez@gnu.org">asanchez@gnu.org</a></h4> <p>GNU/Hurd, GNU-es and GNOME contributor. Started working in GNU-es and founded Hurd Hispano, GNU-Hurd spanish community.</p> <h4>Aleksandar Samardzic <a href="mailto:asamardzic@gnu.org"><asamardzic@gnu.org></a> </h4> <p>Is the author of the <a href="/software/libmatheval/">GNU libmatheval</a> library. </p> <h4>Ales Cepek</h4> <p>Is the co-author and maintainer of the C++ package <a href="/software/gama/">GNU GaMa</a> for adjustment of geodetic networks. </p> <h4> Alessandro Rubini <a href="mailto:rubini@gnu.org"><rubini@gnu.org></a> </h4> <p>Is the author of GNU barcode. He develops free software for a living and advocates free ("libero") software for a mission. </p> <h4>Alexander Naumov <a href="mailto:alexander_naumov@opensuse.org"><alexander_naumov@opensuse.org></a></h4> <p> Is a GNU screen developer and maintainer. </p> <h4><a href="http://www.fsfla.org/~lxoliva/">Alexandre Oliva</a></h4> <p>Is one of the maintainers of <a href="/software/libtool/">GNU libtool</a>, <a href="/software/autoconf/autoconf.html">GNU Autoconf</a>, 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. </p> <h4><a href="https://alexandreviau.ca">Alexandre Viau</a> <<a href="mailto:alexandre@alexandreviau.net">alexandre@alexandreviau.net</a>> </h4> <p>Is the co-maintainer of GNU Jami.</p> <h4> <a href="http://alexm.org/">Alex Muntada</a> <a href="mailto:alexm@gnu.org"><alexm@gnu.org></a> </h4> <p>Started as a member of the <a href="/help/evaluation.html">GNU Evaluation Team</a>, became the translator into Catalan of the Georg's <a href="/brave-gnu-world/"> Brave GNU World</a> and member of the Catalan translation team in early 2003, eventually becoming the coordinator until early 2007. For some time after late 2004, he was also the GNU Translations Manager, coordinating the efforts of the several <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html#TranslationsUnderway">teams working on the translation of the GNU web site</a>, after Masayuki Hatta. </p> <h4>Alex Sassmannshausen</h4> <p>Is the maintainer of GNU Glean. He is primarily interested in the relation of Free Software to humanity's ongoing efforts “to emerge from its self-incurred immaturity”.</p> <h4>Alfred M. Szmidt <a href="mailto:ams@gnu.org"><ams@gnu.org></a></h4> <p> Is the maintainer of the GNU networking utilities. He lives in Sweden. </p> <h4 id="arh"><a href="https://alirezahayati.com">Ali Reza Hayati</a></h4> <p>Ali Reza Hayati is a <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">hacker</a>, cypherpunk, <a href="https://fsf.org">computer user freedom</a> activist, and <a href="https://freedomdefined.org/">free culture</a> advocate.</p> <h4><a href="http://www.wfu.edu/~cottrell/">Allin Cottrell</a></h4> <p>Is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/gretl/gretl.html">gretl</a>. He is Professor of Economics at Wake Forest University, North Carolina. </p> <h4 id="bandali"><a href="https://kelar.org/~bandali/">Amin Bandali</a> <a href="mailto:bandali@gnu.org"><bandali@gnu.org></a></h4> <p>Is a free software activist who wears <a href="https://kelar.org/~bandali/cv.html#gnu">a few hats</a> around GNU, volunteers with the FSF, and is a core organizer and sysadmin for <a href="https://emacsconf.org">EmacsConf</a> and the founder of <a href="https://www.gnu.ca">GNU Canada</a>.</p> <h4>Anand Babu <<a href="mailto:ab@gnu.org.in">ab@gnu.org</a>></h4> <p>Is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/freeipmi/">FreeIPMI</a>. 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. </p> <h4>Andrea Corallo <<a href="mailto:acorallo@gnu.org">acorallo@gnu.org</a>></h4> <p>Is co-maintainer of <a href="/software/emacs/">GNU Emacs</a>. He contributed to: <a href="/software/gcc/">GCC</a>, <a href="/software/binutils/">binutils</a> and GNU Emacs. Within GNU Emacs he wrote the native compiler in order to allow Emacs to compile Elisp to native code.</p> <h4><a href="https://www.math.u-bordeaux.fr/~aenge/">Andreas Enge</a></h4> <p>Is a co-author and the maintainer of <a href="/software/mpc/">GNU MPC</a>, a C library for the arithmetic of complex numbers with arbitrarily high precision and correct rounding of the result. </p> <h4>Andreas Grünbacher</h4> <p>Is a co-maintainer of GNU patch. He also is the primary author of <a href="http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt">quilt</a> (a utility for managing stacks of patches), and a contributor to the Linux kernel.</p> <h4>Andrew Hughes <a href="mailto:gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org"><gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org></a></h4> <p>Is co-maintainer of <a href="/software/classpath">GNU Classpath</a> and also handles merges of the GNU Classpath code into the GCJ component of <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org">GCC</a>. He has been a user of <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">GNU/Linux</a> since 1998.</p> <h4>Andrew Makhorin</h4> <p>Is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/glpk/glpk.html">GLPK</a> (GNU Linear Programming Kit), Russia. </p> <h4>Anto Cvitić</h4> <p>Is an <a href="http://member.fsf.org/join?referrer=3569">Associate Member</a> of the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/">FSF</a> and maintainer of <a href="http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Ggradebook">ggradebook</a>, which is a student grade tracking program.</p> <h4>Anton McClure</h4> <p>Is the maintainer of <a href="/software/gnutrition/">GNUtrition</a>, and an <a href="https://my.fsf.org/join?referrer=6367076">Associate Member</a> of the Free Software Foundation.</p> <h4>Antonio Cisternino</h4> <p>Is the author of GNU <a href="/software/sxml/sxml.html">SXML</a>, the easiest way to implement a markup language. He is active in the development of many Free Software programs. </p> <h4>Antonio Diaz Diaz <<a href="mailto:antonio@gnu.org">antonio@gnu.org</a>></h4> <p>Is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html">Ddrescue</a>, <a href="/software/moe/moe.html">Moe</a>, <a href="/software/ocrad/ocrad.html">Ocrad</a> and the <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html">lzip</a> format used to distribute some GNU packages. He also maintains <a href="/software/ed/ed.html">GNU ed</a>. </p> <h4>Anuradha Ratnaweera</h4> <p>Is an engineering undergraduate student living in Sri Lanka. He is the author and maintainer of the <a href="/software/gfe/gfe.html">GNU Font Editor (GFE)</a>. </p> <h4> Arnold Robbins <a href="mailto:arnold@gnu.org"><arnold@gnu.org></a> </h4> <p>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.<br /> 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. </p> <h4>Arthur Schwarz <a href="mailto:aschwarz@acm.org"><aschwarz@acm.org></a></h4> <p>Maintainer for the GNU Slip package, an API substitute for the C++ STL list/queue library.</p> <h4> Assaf Gordon <a href="mailto:assafgordon@gmail.com"><assafgordon@gmail.com></a> </h4> <p>Is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/datamash/">GNU Datamash</a> and a co-maintainer of <a href="/software/coreutils/">GNU Coreutils</a> and <a href="/software/sed/">GNU sed</a>. He is additionally a <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/SavannahTeam/"> GNU Savannah</a> hacker.</p> <h4><a href="https://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/">Aubrey Jaffer</a></h4> <p>Wrote or organized (and maintains) the <a href="https://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/JACAL.html">JACAL</a> Symbolic Mathematics System, the <a href="https://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/SLIB.html">SLIB</a> Portable Scheme Library, the TeXinfo and HTML versions of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231201092055/https://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/Scheme.html">Revised Reports on the Algorithmic Language Scheme</a>, the <a href="https://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/SCM.html">SCM</a> Scheme Implementation, the <a href="https://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/SIMSYNCH.html">SIMSYNCH</a> Digital Logic Simulation System, the <a href="https://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/infobar/index.html">INFOBAR</a> change-bar annotater for INFO files, and the <a href="https://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/infobar/index.html">HITCH</a> change annotater for HTML files. </p> <h4> Aymeric Moizard <a href="mailto:jack@atosc.org"><jack@atosc.org></a> </h4> <p>He is a <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">GNU/Linux</a> fan since the early days and he is the author of the <a href="/software/osip/osip.html">GNU oSIP library</a>. 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. </p> <h3 id="b">B</h3> <h4> Baishampayan Ghose <a href="mailto:b.ghose@gnu.org"><b.ghose@gnu.org></a> </h4> <p>He is a <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">GNU/Linux</a> enthusiast from India. He is a member of the Free Software Foundation of India working committee. He is a full time slacker and hacks on Python when he has some time. He is also a very enthusiastic speaker at numerous Free Software Conferences. He was a contributor to GNU Freetalk, the Free Jabber client. </p> <h4><a href="https://barry.warsaw.us">Barry Warsaw</a></h4> <p>Has been writing free software since the early 1980s, and was an early contributor to GNU Emacs. Currently is project leader for <a href="http://www.list.org">GNU Mailman</a>, the GNU mailing list manager.</p> <h4>Ben Elliston</h4> <p> Is the maintainer of the config.{guess,sub} scripts. Ben lives in Canberra, Australia. </p> <h4><a href="http://benpfaff.org">Ben Pfaff</a></h4> <p>Is the author of <a href="http://adtinfo.org/">GNU libavl</a>, which he continues to develop and maintain. He is also the author of <a href="/software/pspp/">GNU PSPP</a>. </p> <h4> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Rosenkr%C3%A4nzer"> Bernhard "Bero"Rosenkränzer</a> </h4> <p>Is the founder and main developer of Ark Linux (later merged into OpenMandriva), and a contributor to various other free software projects.</p> <h4>Bob Glickstein</h4> <p>Is a long-time intermittent contributor to <a href="/software/emacs/emacs.html">GNU Emacs</a> and other GNU software. He's the author of <a href="/software/stow/stow.html">GNU Stow</a> and the 'sregex' Emacs Lisp package. He's also written other free software, notably Latte, and a handful of other packages. </p> <h4>Bradley M. Kuhn (aka bkuhn)</h4> <p>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. He served as Executive Director of the FSF until 2005, and is now the CTO at the Software Freedom Law Center. Mr. Kuhn contributes to GNU as a volunteer by hacking on various Free Software programs and Free Documentation. </p> <h4><a href="http://brandon.invergo.net/">Brandon Invergo</a></h4> <p>Is the maintainer of the <a href="/software/gsrc/">GNU Source Release Collection (GSRC)</a> and <a href="/software/pyconfigure/">GNU pyconfigure</a>. He is also a member of the <a href="/help/evaluation.html">GNU Evaluation Team</a> and the <a href="/contact/gnu-advisory.html">GNU Advisory Committee</a>. </p> <h4>Brett Smith <a href="mailto:brett@fsf.org"><brett@fsf.org></a></h4> <p><img src="/graphics/fsfsmall.png" alt="Free Software Foundation Staff" /></p> <p>Wore many hats at the FSF beginning in 2002, including GNU Chief Webmaster, intern, and Shipping Manager, and licensing guru at the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/licensing/">FSF Compliance Lab</a>. </p> <h4>Brian J. Fox</h4> <p>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 <a href="/software/emacs/emacs.html">GNU Emacs</a>, and other lesser projects.</p> <h4>Brian Gough</h4> <p>Is one of the developers of the <a href="/software/gsl/">GNU Scientific Library</a> and its current maintainer. He lives in the United Kingdom.</p> <h4>Brigham Keys, Esq. <a href="mailto:bkeys@bkeys.org"><bkeys@bkeys.org></a></h4> <p>Volunteer maintainer for GNU GLeem as of September 2015. Is deeply fascinated with 3D graphics and data visualization. Is a deep free software advocate and loves to play video games and leads the <a href="http://www.dmux.me">DMUX</a> project to try to create a better freedom respecting environment for gamers.</p> <h4 id="oitofelix">Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro <a href="mailto:oitofelix@gnu.org"><oitofelix@gnu.org></a> </h4> <ul> <li><a href="/software/ccd2cue/">GNU ccd2cue maintainer</a></li> <li><a href="https://savannah.gnu.org/project/memberlist.php?group=administration">GNU Savannah hacker</a></li> <li><a href="/people/webmeisters.html#oitofelix">GNU webmaster</a></li> <li><a href="http://audio-video.gnu.org/">GNU audio and video maintainer</a></li> <li><a href="/software/repo-criteria.html#oitofelix">GNU ethical repository criteria maintainer</a></li> <li><a href="/server/standards/translations/pt-br/updates.html#table-contrib-ranking">GNU web translation team coordinator (Brazilian Portuguese)</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="c">C</h3> <h4>Carlo Wood</h4> <p>Is the maintainer of <a href="https://carlowood.github.io/which/">GNU which</a>, <a href="http://libcwd.sourceforge.net/">libcwd</a>, <a href="http://ircu.sourceforge.net/">ircu</a> and prototype Makefiles, and has been the maintainer of <a href="/software/indent/">GNU indent</a>.  Carlo is best known for his improvements to IRC (starting with <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141015033525/http://www.undernet.org/">undernet</a>) but contributed to numerous other projects. For the past few years he worked mostly on <a href="http://libcw.sourceforge.net/">libcw</a>, an ambitious C++ project existing of building blocks for heavy-duty networking applications. </p> <h4> Chad C. Walstrom <<a href="mailto:chewie@gnu.org">chewie@gnu.org</a>> </h4> <p>Is the current maintainer of <a href="/software/gnats/">GNU GNATS</a>. 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. </p> <h4>Charles Henry Schoonover</h4> <p>Is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/webpublish/">GNU WebPublish</a>. 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. </p> <h4> Chet Ramey <a href="mailto:chet@po.cwru.edu"><chet@po.cwru.edu></a> </h4> <p>Is the Bash maintainer and is a networks engineer who works for Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio USA. </p> <h4><a href="http://www.asty.org">Chris Allegretta</a></h4> <p>Is the author and maintainer of the <a href="/software/nano/">GNU Nano</a> text editor. </p> <h4>Chris Simon</h4> <p>Is a maintainer of <a href="/software/miscfiles/">GNU Miscfiles</a>. </p> <h4>Christian Grothoff</h4> <p>Is the principal author and maintainer of <a href="/software/gnunet/">GNUnet</a>, <a href="/software/libextractor/">libextractor</a> and <a href="/software/libmicrohttpd/">GNU libmicrohttpd</a>. He is currently an Emmy Noether Research Group leader at TU Munich.</p> <h4><a href="http://www.ufoot.org">Christian Mauduit</a></h4> <p>Is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/liquidwar6/">Liquid War 6</a>. </p> <h4> Christopher Dimech </h4> <p>Is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/gbehistun/gbehistun.html">GNU Behistun</a>, a package for geological mapping with applications to disaster hazard risk level forecasting, disaster early warning and response.</p> <h4> Christopher Gutteridge </h4> <p>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 <a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/">Department of Electronics and Computer Science</a> 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 <a href="http://www.gimp.org/">GIMP</a> coffee stain script-fu effect. </p> <h4> Claude Simon <a href="mailto:simon@epeios.org"><simon@epeios.org></a> </h4> <p>Author and maintainer of <a href="https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Mll2html">Mll2html</a>, a program to reformat an ASCII file. Also author of the <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/epeios/wiki/Home/">Epeios project</a>.</p> <h4> Claudio Fontana <<a href="mailto:claudio@gnu.org">claudio@gnu.org</a>> </h4> <p>Is the original author and maintainer of <a href="/software/sourceinstall/sourceinstall.html">GNU Source Installer</a>, and contributes to other Free Software projects. </p> <h4>Craig Schock <a href="mailto:schock@afox.org"><schock@afox.org></a> </h4> <p>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. </p> <h3 id="d">D</h3> <h4><a href="http://rdmp.org/dale-mellor/">Dale Mellor</a></h4> <p>Is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/mcron/">GNU Mcron</a>, a traditional cron replacement which also accepts job specifications in Guile (Scheme).</p> <h4><a href="http://math.stanford.edu/~bump/">Daniel Bump</a></h4> <p>Is a co-maintainer of <a href="/software/gnugo/gnugo.html">GNU Go</a>. </p> <h4>Daniel Valentine</h4> <p>Is the author and maintainer of the GNU package <a href="/software/combine/">Combine</a>. </p> <h4>Darshit Shah</h4> <p>Is a co-maintainer of <a href="/software/wget/wget.html">GNU Wget</a>.</p> <h4>Dave Crossland <<a href="mailto:crossland@gnu.org">crossland@gnu.org</a>></h4> <p>Is a free software activist living in Bournemouth, UK, working towards the software freedom of fonts. He has delivered several lectures on free software. </p> <h4>David C. Niemi</h4> <p>Has a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois. He maintains <a href="http://code.google.com/p/byte-unixbench/">Unixbench</a> and helps maintain <a href="/software/mtools/">Mtools</a>. 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. </p> <h4><a href="http://www.rhy0lite.net/">David Edelsohn</a></h4> <p>Is a member of the GCC steering committee and initiated the GCC Runtime Library Exception.</p> <h4>David MacKenzie</h4> <p>Wrote or polished many of the GNU core 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. After creating scalable web server infrastructure for UUNET, he is currently at a startup and continues contributing to free software from time to time. </p> <h4> <a href="http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill"> David R. Hill</a> <a href="mailto:david@firethorne.com"><david@firethorne.com></a> </h4> <p>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. </p> <h4> <a href="http://altosw.be/"> David Pirotte</a> </h4> <p>Is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/guile-cv/">GNU Guile-CV</a>, <a href="/software/g-golf/">GNU G-Golf</a> and <a href="/software/foliot/">GNU Foliot</a>. He co-maintains <a href="https://www.nongnu.org/guile-lib/">Guile-Lib</a>, <a href="/software/guile-gnome/">GNU Guile-Gnome</a> and <a href="/software/guile-gnome/clutter/">GNU Guile-Clutter</a>. He contributes to <a href="/software/guile/">GNU Guile</a>, <a href="https://notabug.org/cwebber/guile-squee/">Guile-Squee</a>, <a href="https://notabug.org/guile-sqlite3/guile-sqlite3">Guile-SQLite3</a>, <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/g-wrap/">G-wrap</a> and <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/guile-cairo/">Guile-Cairo</a>.</p> <h4> David Sugar </h4> <p>Is one of the authors and principal maintainer of <a href="/software/commoncpp/">GNU Common C++</a>, which is a portable general purpose C++ framework for application development. David Sugar also founded the <a href="/software/bayonne/bayonne.html">GNU Bayonne</a> project, and was one of the principal founders of OST, a commercial entity (now inactive) that used to develop and promote free GPL-licensed telephony solutions.</p> <h4> David Thompson <a href="mailto:davet@gnu.org"><davet@gnu.org></a> </h4> <p> Web Developer at the FSF. Contributor to <a href="/software/guile">GNU Guile</a> and <a href="/software/guix">GNU Guix</a>. </p> <h4>Debarshi Ray <a href="mailto:rishi@gnu.org"><rishi@gnu.org></a> </h4> <p>Maintains <a href="/software/songanizer">GNU Songanizer</a> and co-maintains <a href="/software/inetutils">GNU Inetutils</a>. He was a past contributor to <a href="/software/gnowsys">GNOWSYS</a> and contributes to <a href="/software/parted">GNU Parted</a>. </p> <h4> Dennis Clarke <<a href="mailto:dclarke@blastwave.org">dclarke@blastwave.org</a>> </h4> <p>Is the sponsor and primary administrator of Blastwave.org [unavailable as of Dec 2012]. The Blastwave project offers the largest free software stack to Solaris users worldwide with fifty mirror sites including primary mirrors in Germany, China, Australia and United States. Blastwave allows users to freely package GNU and free software for free usage by anyone. Any user may join the project and package software or even just experiment with various Solaris incantations including OpenSolaris. The project has been running continuously since 2002.</p> <h4><a href="http://ossguy.com/">Denver Gingerich</a></h4> <p> Is the maintainer of <a href="/software/wdiff/">wdiff</a>. </p> <h4><a id="sinuhe" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240107010928/https://oberon07.com/dee/">David E. Evans</a> (aka <a href="https://savannah.gnu.org/users/sinuhe">Sinuhe</a>)</h4> <p>David has played an involved part with the <a href="/people/past-webmasters.html">Webmasters</a>, including serving as <a href="/people/webmeisters.html">Chief Webmaster</a>, and was maintainer of <a href="/software/rottlog/">GNU Rot[t]log</a>. He continues to focus his work on free documentation, using free software, and participates on <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/">GNU Mailing Lists</a> to provide bug fixes and feature additions.</p> <h4> <a id="djdelorie" href="http://www.delorie.com/users/dj/">DJ Delorie</a> </h4> <p> Has been porting GNU software to MS-DOS since around 1989, culminating in <a href="http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/">DJGPP</a>. Also wrote <a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/doschk/">doschk</a>, and maintains <a href="http://www.delorie.com/gnu/">his own GNU web site</a> with online doc and package listings. Currently works for Cygnus porting GNU software to Windows NT. </p> <h3 id="e">E</h3> <h4>Emmanuel Medernach</h4> <p> Is the author and maintainer of SpeedX. </p> <h4>Eric Blake <a href="mailto:ebb9@byu.net"><ebb9@byu.net></a></h4> <p>Is currently one of the maintainers of <a href="/software/m4/m4.html">GNU M4</a> and <a href="/software/autoconf/autoconf.html">GNU Autoconf</a>. He has additionally contributed to several other GNU projects, such as Findutils, Coreutils, Automake, Libtool, and Classpath, and maintains ports of several GNU programs for Cygwin. </p> <h4>Eric P. Hutchins <a href="mailto:hutchiep190@potsdam.edu"><hutchiep190@potsdam.edu></a></h4> <p>Is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/ballandpaddle/">GNU Ball and Paddle</a> and <a href="/software/speedx/">GNU SpeedX</a>.</p> <h4>Eric S. Raymond</h4> <p> Wrote the VC (version control), GUD (Grand Unified Debugger) and asm (assembler) modes in <a href="/software/emacs/emacs.html">GNU Emacs</a>. 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. </p> <h4>Eric A. Schulman <a href="mailto:eas@gnu.org"><eas@gnu.org></a></h4> <p> Is a Linux kernel hacker, free software advocate and member of the Free Software Foundation. He is the author of GNU DSView, a free replacement for the KVM/IP rendering engine. </p> <h4>Evgeny Grin <a href="mailto:k2k@narod.ru"><k2k@narod.ru></a> </h4> <p>Is co-maintainer of <a href="/software/libmicrohttpd/">GNU libmicrohttpd</a>, and contributes to other GNU projects. He has Master's Degree in Physics (Moscow State University) and PhD in Telecom. Evgeny lives in Moscow, Russia and likes to work in hi-tech projects.</p> <h3 id="f">F</h3> <h4>Filippo Rusconi</h4> <p> Is the author and maintainer of <a href="http://www.polyxmass.org">GNU polyxmass</a>. This software suite allows users to perform mass spectrometric data simulations and analyses for whatever polymer chemistry type and polymer sequence. </p> <h4>Francesco Potortì</h4> <p> Is the maintainer of <cite>etags</cite>, which is part of <a href="/software/emacs/">Emacs</a>. He contributed the 68020 assembler code of <a href="/software/gzip/">gzip</a>, ported <cite>Emacs</cite> to the Motorola Delta 68k architecture, wrote some <cite>Emacs</cite> packages, and did various minor things. </p> <h4> Franco Iacomella <yaco (at) gnu.org> </h4> <p> He was an university investigator in Argentina. He was involved in multiple GNU subprojects in relation with politics, licenses, documentation, translations and education, and often spoke at conferences about GNU Project and free software movement. </p> <h4>Frank de Lange</h4> <p> Is a software evaluator for the GNU Project and develops a Gnome/GTK port of the LyX document processor. </p> <h4> Franklin R. Jones <a href="mailto:grat@wyldwood.com"><grat@wyldwood.com></a> </h4> <p> (since late 1997) <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org">webmaster</a> for gnu.org. A long time advocate of GNU things and a general unix sysadmin haque. </p> <h3 id="g">G</h3> <h4>G. Branden Robinson</h4> <p> Maintains <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/">groff</a>, a typesetting document formatting system that reimplements and extends Unix troff. Branden has also contributed to ncurses, GNU Bash, and the GPLed seL4 microkernel project. He formerly served as Debian Project Leader and helped design the SPDX specification for standardized disclosure of FLOSS licensing in software bills of materials. </p> <h4>Georg C. F. Greve</h4> <p> Physicist and Free Software advocate. Author of the <a href="/brave-gnu-world/">Brave GNU World</a>, speaker for the <a href="/">GNU Project</a>, name-giver of the <a href="/licenses/lgpl.html">GNU Lesser General Public License</a> and principal author and maintainer of <a href="/software/xlogmaster/xlogmaster.html"> The Xlogmaster</a> and some other software projects. Also initiator and president of the <a href="http://fsfe.org">Free Software Foundation Europe</a>. </p> <h4><a href="http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/">Gerald Pfeifer</a></h4> <p> Is a member of the <a href="/software/gcc/">GCC</a> 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 <a href="/software/gnats/">GNATS</a> bug tracking system. </p> <h4><a href="http://gnutopics.wordpress.com/">Germán Arias</a> <a href="mailto:germanandre@gmx.es"><germanandre@gmx.es></a></h4> <p>Is the maintainer of the <a href="/software/fisicalab/">FisicaLab</a> project. He also contributes with <a href="http://www.gnustep.org">GNUstep</a> project. He lives in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Besides programming computers, Germán likes mathematics, physics and read books.</p> <h4><a href="http://www.scrivano.org/">Giuseppe Scrivano</a></h4> <p>Is the maintainer of some GNU packages including <a href="/software/wget/">wget</a> and <a href="/software/gcal/">gcal</a>. During the years he contributed to several other packages including <a href="/software/gcc/">GCC</a>, <a href="/software/gnulib/">gnulib</a>, <a href="/software/coreutils/">coreutils</a>, diff, <a href="/software/emacs">Emacs</a>. He helps managing the Google Summer of Code program for the GNU project. </p> <h4>Gordon Matzigkeit</h4> <p> Was the principal author of <a href="/software/libtool/libtool.html">GNU Libtool</a>. He is currently working on GNU system integration, with a focus on the <a href="/software/hurd/hurd.html">GNU Hurd</a>. </p> <h4>Graham Percival</h4> <p>Is a co-maintainer of <a href="http://www.lilypond.org/">GNU LilyPond</a>, and editor of most of its documentation.</p> <h4><a href="http://heronsperch.blogspot.com/">Gregory Casamento</a></h4> <p> Is the maintainer of the GNUstep project. He has been the maintainer and principal author of GNU Gorm (InterfaceBuilder) for) the past few years and has written many classes in gui (AppKit) for the project. He sincerely hopes that the project will reach its full potential. </p> <h4>Guillaume Morin <a href="mailto:gmorin@gnu.org"><gmorin@gnu.org></a></h4> <p> Is the current <a href="/software/stow/">GNU Stow</a> maintainer. He is a <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/">Savannah</a> contributor and administrator. He is also a <a href="http://debian.org/">Debian</a> developer. </p> <h3 id="h">H</h3> <h4>Han-Wen Nienhuys</h4> <p> Is one of the main authors of <a href="http://www.lilypond.org">LilyPond</a>, the music typesetter of the GNU Project. He currently is a PhD. student at the Computer Science Department of Utrecht University. </p> <h4>Henning Köster</h4> <p> Is the author of <a href="/software/poc/poc.html">GNU POC</a>. </p>  <h4>Henrik Abelsson</h4> <p> Tries to do his part in bringing Free Software to the world by being a maintainer of GNU Messenger. Lives in Linköping, Sweden. </p> <h4> Henrik Sandklef <a href="mailto:hesa@gnu.org"><hesa@gnu.org></a> </h4> <p> Is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/xnee/">Xnee</a>. He also advocates the GNU philosophy in Sweden. </p> <h4>Hilaire L. S. Fernandes</h4> <p> Is the author of <a href="/software/dr_geo/dr_geo.html">DrGeo</a> and DrGenius geometry GNU software. He is also a volunteer at the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150420025426/http://www.ofset.org/tiki-index.php"> OFSET</a> organization, promoting free software development for education. </p> <h4>Hugo Gayosso</h4> <p> Was a software evaluator for the GNU Project and coordinator of the Spanish translation team for the GNU web site. </p> <h3 id="i">I</h3> <h4>Ian Dunn</h4> <p> Is the author and maintainer for <a href="/software/aris/">GNU Aris</a>. </p> <h4><a href="http://www.airs.com/ian/">Ian Lance Taylor</a></h4> <p> Wrote GNU/Taylor UUCP. He has contributed to GNU binutils and many other packages. </p> <h4>Ian Murdock</h4> <p>Led the development of <a href="https://www.debian.org/">Debian GNU/Linux</a> from its inception in 1993 until 1996. Murdock died on December 28, 2015 in San Francisco.</p> <h4>Igor Támara Patiño</h4> <p> Was translator to Spanish of GNU web pages and co-maintainer of <a href="/software/gtypist/">GNU Typist</a>. </p> <h4> IIDA Yosiaki <<a href="mailto:iida@ring.gr.jp">iida@ring.gr.jp</a>> </h4> <p> Maintains <a href="/software/gnujdoc/">GNUjdoc</a> and translates <a href="/brave-gnu-world/">Brave GNU World</a> into Japanese. </p> <h4>Ileana Dumitrescu</h4> <p>Is the maintainer of GNU libtool. She also maintains zvbi and performs maintenance for several packages as a Debian Maintainer: debianutils, game-music-emu, etc.</p> <h3 id="j">J</h3> <h4> J. Abelardo Gutierrez <<a href="mailto:jabelardo@gmail.com">jabelardo@gmail.com</a>> </h4> <p> Is the maintainer of GNU Sather programming language. Also a contributor of some other Free Software projects. </p> <h4><a href="https://theworld.com/~burley/">James Craig Burley</a></h4> <p> Wrote and maintains GNU Fortran (<code>g77</code>) as a volunteer for the Free Software Foundation for most of 1988 through the present. Craig lives in Ashland, Massachusetts. </p> <h4>James Youngman</h4> <p>James is the maintainer of <a href="/software/findutils/">GNU Findutils</a> and is the Author of <a href="/software/cssc/">GNU CSSC</a>. He also contributes to a number of other GNU projects including <a href="/software/gnulib/">gnulib</a> and <a href="/software/coreutils/">Coreutils</a>. James has worked on the <a href="http://www.opengroup.org/susv3">2004 POSIX standard</a> and with the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230111004600/https://www.ukuug.org/"> UK's Unix & Open Systems User Group</a>. </p> <h4>Jan Nieuwenhuizen</h4> <p> Is one of the main authors of <a href="http://www.lilypond.org">LilyPond</a>, 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. </p> <h4> Jason Kitcat, <a href="mailto:jeep@thecouch.org"><jeep@thecouch.org></a> </h4> <p> Jason was the designer and author for GNU.FREE, a heavy duty Internet voting system. He currently lives in Brighton, UK and works on various projects.<br /> 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. </p> <h4>Jason M. Felice</h4> <p> Is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/patchwork/">GNU Patchwork</a>. </p> <h4><a href="http://jxself.org">Jason Self</a></h4> <p>is the maintainer of <a href="/software/gnutrition">GNUtrition</a> and the <a href="/people/webmeisters.html">GNU Chief Webmaster</a>. He is also a member of the <a href="/contact/gnu-advisory.html">GNU Advisory Committee</a>.</p> <h4><a href="http://gailly.net/">Jean-loup Gailly</a></h4> <p> Is the principal author of <a href="/software/gzip/">GNU Gzip</a> which he continues to maintain. </p> <h4>Jeff Binder</h4> <p> Is a co-author and co-maintainer of <a href="/software/leg/">GNU Leg</a> (Libraries and Engines for Games). </p> <h4><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170628035343/http://www.advogato.org/person/jbs/">Jeffrey B. Siegal</a></h4> <p> Has been involved with GNU since 1985, when he helped Richard Stallman design GCC. He has contributed to many free software packages including <a href="/software/emacs/">Emacs</a>, the GNU <a href="/software/libc/">C Library</a>, the <a href="http://www.xfree86.org/">X Window System</a> and others. Jeff did the original port of many GNU packages to Windows NT. </p> <h4><a href="https://savannah.gnu.org/users/ahiliation">Jeffrin Jose</a></h4> <p>Worked on the <a href="/software/sourceinstall/">GNU Source Installer</a>, and was a contributor to upstream Linux, the kernel. He was also the maintainer of <a href="/software/dap/">GNU Dap</a>, <a href="/software/trueprint/">GNU Trueprint</a>, and <a href="/software/gleem/">GNU GLeem</a>. He is currently involved in building and sharing knowledge using free software.</p> <h4>Jeremiah Benham</h4> <p>Is one of the two main developers of GNU Denemo</p> <h4><strong>Jia Wang</strong></h4> <p> Is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/proxyknife/">GNU Proxyknife</a>. </p> <h4><a href="http://www.red-bean.com/~jimb">Jim Blandy</a></h4> <p> Has worked for the Free Software Foundation on and off for nine years. He currently maintains <a href="/software/guile/guile.html">Guile</a>, as a volunteer. Along with Richard Stallman, he was responsible for the release of version 19 of <a href="/software/emacs/emacs.html">GNU Emacs</a>. Jim lives in Bloomington, Indiana. </p> <h4> Jim Lowe <a href="mailto:jhlowe@acm.org"><jhlowe@acm.org></a> </h4> <p> Has been a user and advocate of <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">GNU/Linux</a> systems since 1992. His current interest relating to GNU/Linux systems is software administration. He's author and maintainer of <a href="/software/swbis/">GNU Swbis</a>, 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. </p> <h4> Jim Meyering <a href="mailto:jim@meyering.net"><jim@meyering.net></a> </h4> <p> Has maintained the GNU Coreutils since 1991. After merging the portability/maintainability (lib/, m4/, automake) core of the textutils, fileutils, and sh-utils into the coreutils, he subsequently migrated most of that into a separate project that is now known as Gnulib. </p> <h4>Joel E. Denny</h4> <p>Co-maintains <a href="/software/bison/">GNU Bison</a>.</p> <h4>Joel N. Weber II</h4> <p> 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. </p> <h4><a href="http://www.squirrel.nl/people/jvromans/">Johan Vromans</a></h4> <p> Is the author of forms-mode for GNU Emacs and of several other tools that are freely available in the spirit of GNU. </p> <h4><strong>John Catherino</strong> </h4> <p> Was the author and maintainer of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151105005131/https://java.net/projects/cajo/pages/Home"> the Cajo project</a>. He was working with a worldwide community of free software developers, to provide seamless transparent distributed computing for grid and cluster platform developers. John Catherino passed away on April 16, 2016 in Anchorage. </p> <h4>John Collins jmc AT xisl DOT com</h4> <p> Is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/gnuspool/">GNUspool</a> and <a href="/software/gnubatch/">GNUbatch</a>. He lives in near London, England with Sue and a stroppy dog. Sometimes they contrive to let him play Chess and Go — see him on ICC, KGS, IGS and DGS as toadwarble — see <a href="http://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=toadwarble">KGS graph</a>.</p> <h4>  John Sullivan <a href="mailto:johns@gnu.org"><johns@gnu.org></a> </h4> <p><img src="/graphics/fsfsmall.png" alt="Free Software Foundation Staff" /></p> <p> Has worked for the FSF since 2003, and is a GNU webmaster and Executive Director of the FSF.  </p> <h4>John W. Eaton</h4> <p> Is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/octave/">GNU Octave</a>. </p>  <h4>Jonas Öberg</h4> <p> Was a GNU webmaster and system administrator. He also advocates the GNU philosophy in Sweden. </p> <h4> <a href="http://www.math.u-psud.fr/~vdhoeven"> Joris van der Hoeven</a> <a href="mailto:TeXmacs@math.u-psud.fr"><TeXmacs@math.u-psud.fr></a> </h4> <p> Is the author and maintainer of <a href="https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/welcome.en.html">GNU TeXmacs</a>. Joris is a researcher in mathematics and computer science at the french CNRS institute. Besides GNU TeXmacs, Joris likes computer algebra and guitar playing. </p> <h4> Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz (aka jao) <a href="mailto:jao@gnu.org"><jao@gnu.org></a> </h4> <p> Is a physicist and author of the <a href="/software/mdk/mdk.html">GNU MDK</a> package, an emulator of Donald Knuth's MIX mythical computer. </p>  <h4>Jose E. Marchesi <<a href="mailto:jemarch@gnu.org">jemarch@gnu.org</a>> </h4> <p> Jose E. Marchesi is a long-term GNU activist. In 1999, he founded <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160306082159/http://es.gnu.org/P%C3%A1gina_Principal"> GNU Spain</a>, and he later assisted in the creation of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140418145937/http://it.gnu.org/">GNU Italy</a> and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160801150658/http://mx.gnu.org/">GNU Mexico</a>. His experience in GNU software maintainership covers <a href="/software/gv/">GNU GV</a> (up to 2007), <a href="/software/ghostscript/">GNU Ghostscript</a> (up to 2006), <a href="/software/ferret/">GNU Ferret</a> and <a href="/software/pdf/">GNU PDF</a>. He also performs what he calls "random works" in the GNU Project, such as writing internal code and editing Web pages as needed. He develop his professional work in the Space sector, writing software for the European Space Agency. </p> <h4>Jose M. Moya</h4> <p>Is currently working on the <a href="/software/hurd/hurd.html">GNU Hurd</a>.</p> <h4><a href="http://ephyslab.uvigo.es/juan/">Juan A. Añel</a></h4> <p>Is the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160913034809/http://gnuticias.es.gnu.org/">GNUticias</a> chief editor, an official speaker for GNU Spain, and helped organize the first GNU Hackers Meeting. He's also a researcher in Atmospheric Sciences.</p> <h4><a href="http://www.juanbidini.com">Juan Bidini</a></h4> <p>Is a member of the core team of the <a href="http://www.ututo.org">UTUTO-e Project</a>, co-founder of <a href="https://softlibreargentina.blogspot.fr/">SOLAR (Software Libre ARgentina)</a>, and founder of LUGCASARES ( <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">GNU/Linux</a> User Group of Carlos Casares). Currently writing a project about “The creation of a GNU/Linux Distribution” made from source. This distribution will be named for Carlos Casares, the city where he lives.</p> <h4>Jürgen Sauermann</h4> <p>Is an APL veteran since the end of the 1970s, and author and maintainer of GNU APL since 2013. He developed huge mainframe-sized parallel APL computers in the 1980s, but is now down to smaller embedded systems like Raspberry, Atmel, and even FPGAs.</p> <h4>Justin Baugh</h4> <p>Was a systems administrator at the FSF from February 2005 until April 2008.</p> <h3 id="k">K</h3> <h4><a href="http://freefriends.org/~karl/">Karl Berry</a></h4> <p>has been involved with GNU since rms visited his home in 1986.</p> <h4>Karl Heuer</h4> <p> Once worked for the FSF, but has nothing else to say about himself. </p> <h4>Kathryn Ann Hargreaves</h4> <p> Made the original regex code POSIX compliant and updated the manual. Co-authored <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/teximpatient/"> TeX for the Impatient</a> and the initial phases of the <a href="/software/fontutils/">GNU font utilities</a>. </p> <h4>Kresten Krab Thorup</h4> <p> 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. </p> <h4>Klaus Treichel <a href="mailto:ktreichel@web.de"><ktreichel@web.de></a> </h4> <p>Is the maintainer of <a href="/software/dotgnu/">DotGNU</a>. </p> <h4> Krishna Padmasola <a href="mailto:kp2@njitalumni.org"><kp2@njitalumni.org></a> </h4> <p> Converted GNU Emacs CC mode documentation to Texinfo format, which is now included with the Emacs distribution. </p> <h3 id="l">L</h3> <h4><a href="http://lars.nocrew.org/">Lars Brinkhoff</a></h4> <p> Is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/httptunnel/">httptunnel</a>, and is <a href="http://pdp10.nocrew.org/gcc/">porting GCC to PDP-10 and TOPS-20</a>. </p> <h4><a href="http://quimby.gnus.org/">Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen</a></h4> <p> Is the maintainer of <a href="http://www.gnus.org/">Gnus</a>, the Emacs newsreader. Lars lives in Oslo, Norway. </p> <h4>Laurence Finston</h4> <p> Is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/3dldf/">3DLDF</a>, a package for three-dimensional drawing with MetaPost output. </p> <h4> Leonard Manzara <<a href="mailto:manzara@cpsc.ucalgary.ca">manzara@cpsc.ucalgary.ca</a>> </h4> <p> 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. </p> <h4>Les Kopari</h4> <p> Has prepared some web pages, and wrote the awk script that produces the html for our Program-Package Cross Reference. </p> <h4>Lezz Giles</h4> <p> Is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/trueprint/trueprint.html">GNU Trueprint</a>. </p> <h4>Lisa M. Opus Goldstein</h4> <p> 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. </p> <h4>Loic Dachary</h4> <p> Is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/mifluz/">GNU mifluz</a>. He created and is a maintainer of <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/">Savannah</a>, the hosting facility for the GNU project. He is a founding member of <a href="http://fsfe.org/">FSF Europe</a> and <a href="http://france.fsfe.org/">FSFE France</a>. </p> <h4><a href="http://www.lorenzobettini.it">Lorenzo Bettini</a></h4> <p> Is the author of <a href="/software/src-highlite/source-highlight.html">GNU Source-highlight</a>: 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 <a href="/software/gengetopt/gengetopt.html">gengetopt</a>. </p> <h4><a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html">L. Peter Deutsch</a></h4> <p> Is the principal author of <a href="/software/ghostscript/ghostscript.html">GNU Ghostscript</a>, which he continues to maintain and enhance. </p> <h4> <a href="http://ageinghacker.net">Luca Saiu</a> </h4> <p> Has been a user of <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">GNU/Linux</a> 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, an extensible programming language, and its sub-project GNU Jitter. After attending most GNU Hackers Meeting he also organized the 2013 edition in Paris. </p> <h4> <a href="http://www.meanmicio.org">Luis Falcon</a> <<a href="mailto:lfalcon@gnusolidario.org">lfalcon@gnusolidario.org</a>> </h4> <p> Luis Falcon is the author and maintainer of <a href="http://health.gnu.org">GNU Health</a>, the Free Health and Hospital Information System. Luis is the president of <a href="http://www.gnusolidario.org">GNU Solidario</a>, an <abbr title="Non-governmental organization">NGO</abbr> that delivers health and education with Free Software to the underprivileged. </p> <h3 id="m">M</h3> <h4>Marcos Serrou do Amaral</h4> <p> Is maintainer of GNU UnRTF. </p> <h4>Marc Tardif <mtardif@interunion.ca></h4> <p> Is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/bool/bool.html">GNU Bool</a>, a utility for finding files that match a boolean expression. </p> <h4>Marek Aaron Sapota</h4> <p> Is maintainer of <a href="/software/websocket4j">GNU WebSocket4J</a> and a GNU Webmaster. </p> <h4>Mark Adler</h4> <p> Is a co-author on gzip and wrote the decompression part. </p> <h4>Mark H. Weaver <<a href="mailto:mhw@netris.org">mhw@netris.org</a>></h4> <p> Co-maintains <a href="/software/guile">GNU Guile</a> and contributes to <a href="/software/guix">GNU Guix</a>. </p> <h4>Markus Steinborn</h4> <p> Is the maintainer of <a href="/software/gv/">GNU gv</a>. </p> <h4>Martin Schanzenbach</h4> <p>Is a co-maintainer of <a href="https://gnunet.org">GNUnet</a>.</p> <h4>Masayuki Hatta</h4> <p> Is currently maintaining GNU a2ps and Japanese translation of GNU Web pages and was chief GNU translation coordinator, who administers <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">web translation efforts</a> into other languages apart from English, after Luis M. Arteaga. </p> <h4>Mats Lidell</h4> <p> Maintainer of GNU Hyperbole. </p> <h4 id="mattlee"><a href="https://mat.tl/">Matt Lee</a></h4> <p>Matt Lee is an artist, <a href="http://orangumovie.com/">comedy writer/producer/director</a> and <a href="http://furny.co.uk/">musician</a> living in Boston. In previous versions he was a GNU Webmaster (2003-2008), the <a href="/people/webmeisters.html">Chief Webmaster of the GNU project (2005-2008)</a>, a consultant to the FSF (2007/2008) and finally the FSF's Campaigns Manager (2008-2012). He organized the LibrePlanet conference from 2009 until 2012. He started the <a href="/software/fm/">GNU FM</a> (with help from Mike Sheldon and Clint Adams) and <a href="/software/social/">GNU social</a> (with lots of help from Evan Prodromou and Mikael Nordfeldth) projects. After the FSF, Matt ran the technology team over at <a href="http://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a> and was a free software developer at <a href="https://about.gitlab.com">GitLab, Inc</a>.</p> <p>In 2008, Matt wrote and produced the movie <a href="/fry/">Happy Birthday to GNU</a> with Stephen Fry for the 25th anniversary of the GNU Project, designed the cover for the <a href="https://shop.fsf.org/books/">GNU Emacs manual</a>.</p> <p>In 2017, Matt released the <a href="http://orangumovie.com/">first feature length live action movie, made entirely with free software</a>. He is actively working on sequel movies, television writing and the <a href="https://indieweb.org">IndieWeb</a>.</p> <h4><a href="https://tytel.org">Matt Tytel</a></h4> <p>Matt Tytel is the author and maintainer of cursynth, a terminal music synthesizer.</p> <h4> Maurizio Boriani <<a href="mailto:baux@member.fsf.org">baux@member.fsf.org</a>> </h4> <p>Author of guile-dbi (and postgres, mysql db driver), contributor to GNU/Hurd and other various contributions. </p> <h4>Maxim Cournoyer</h4> <p>Is one of the co-maintainers and developers of <a href="/software/guix">GNU Guix</a>, GNU’s functional package manager.</p> <h4>Melissa Weisshaus</h4> <p>Was with the GNU Project on and off (mostly on) for some years after 1991. She edited many <a href="/bulletins/bulletins.html">GNU's Bulletins</a> and did varying amounts of work on most of the FSF's other publications. </p> <h4><a href="http://www.moria.de/~michael/">Michael Haardt</a></h4> <p>Is currently working on <a href="/software/diction/diction.html">GNU diction</a>. </p> <h4><a href="http://micah.cowan.name/">Micah Cowan</a> <<a href="mailto:micah@addictivecode.org">micah@addictivecode.org</a>></h4> <p> Maintains <a href="/software/wget/">GNU Wget</a> and <a href="/software/teseq/">GNU Teseq</a>, and contributes to <a href="/software/screen/">GNU Screen</a>. Also chips in for org admin duties to represent the FSF/GNU Project in Google's annual <a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/">Summer of Code</a> program. </p> <h4><a href="mailto:mjflick@gnu.org">Michael J. Flickinger</a></h4> <p> Has been involved with Savannah administration since 2004, and is presently the chief Savannah maintainer. He is also the maintainer of the <a href="/software/packaging/">GNU packaging</a> project. </p> <h4>Michael Opdenacker</h4> <p>Was the maintainer of <a href="/software/gtypist/">GNU Typist</a>, and translated its GNU web pages to French. </p> <h4>Mihai Gătejescu</h4> <p>Is the maintainer of <a href="/software/gtypist">GNU Typist</a>.</p> <h4><a href="http://www.nada.kth.se/~mdj">Mikael Djurfeldt</a></h4> <p>Is one of the maintainers for <a href="/software/guile/">Guile</a> and has ported and worked on development of <a href="/software/goops/">GOOPS</a>, Guile's object system. He is currently working on his PhD in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19970605032448/http://www.nada.kth.se/~mdj/">Graybiel Lab</a>, see the Wayback Machine (archived June 05, 1997), at the <a href="http://web.mit.edu/bcs">Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences</a>, <a href="http://www.mit.edu">MIT</a> and is a graduate student in <a href="https://www.nada.kth.se/om/reports/annualreport99/SANS.pdf">SANS</a> (Studies of Artificial Neural Systems) at <a href="http://www.kth.se">KTH</a> (Royal Institute of Technology), Stockholm.</p> <h4><a href="https://mikegerwitz.com">Mike Gerwitz</a></h4> <p>Free software hacker and activist with a focus on privacy and security; GNU maintainer, <a href="/help/evaluation.html">evaluator</a>, and volunteer; author of <a href="/s/easejs">GNU ease.js</a>. GPG Fingerprint: <code>2217 5B02 E626 BC98 D7C0 C2E5 F22B B815 8EE3 0EAB</code></p> <h4>Mike Vanier</h4> <p>A graduate student in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has taken over maintaining GNU Shogi and xshogi. </p> <h4>Miquel Puigpelat</h4> <p>Is a Catalan Translation Team Coordinator and a member of gnu.org. He also maintains a personal site about <a href="http://www.puigpe.org/">free software</a> and related subjects in Catalan. </p> <h4>Mohammed Isam <a href="mailto:mohammed_isam1984@yahoo.com"> <mohammed_isam1984@yahoo.com></a></h4> <p>The author and maintainer of <a href="/software/fontopia/">Fontopia</a> and <a href="/software/gnudos/"> GnuDOS</a> packages.</p> <h4>Mu Lei known as NalaGinrut <mulei AT gnu.org></h4> <p>The maintainer of <a href="/software/artanis/">GNU Artanis</a> and <a href="/software/xmlat/">GNU Xmlat</a>, NalaGinrut contributes to <a href="/software/guile">GNU Guile</a>. Also advocates the GNU philosophy in China to young people.</p> <h4> Musawir Ali <<a href="mailto:musawir@gmail.com">musawir@gmail.com</a>> </h4> <p>Is the maintainer of <a href="/software/leg/">GNU Leg</a> (Libraries and Engines for Games). Currently pursuing a doctoral degree and brainstorming prospective free software projects. </p> <h3 id="n">N</h3> <h4>Nagarjuna G</h4> <p>Is the author and project coordinator of <a href="/software/gnowsys/">GNOWSYS</a> and Chairperson of <a href="http://fsf.org.in/">FSF India</a>. He is a philosopher of science and educationist working in the <a href="https://www.gnowledge.org/">gnowledge.org</a> lab at Mumbai in India at <a href="https://hbcse.tifr.res.in/">Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education</a>, working in the area of structure and dynamics of knowledge. He gives speeches introducing the philosophy of free software, free knowledge and free society. He is also a project coordinator and lead developer of an independent free software project <a href="https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/self-platform">SELF-Platform</a>. </p> <h4>Nathan Nichols <nathannichols454@gmail.com></h4> <p>Is a maintainer/author of <a href="/software/librejs/">GNU LibreJS</a>, a JavaScript browser add-on that accepts/denies JavaScript from websites based on license.</p> <h4>Nazim Djafar</h4> <p>Is the maintainer of the <a href="/software/jwhois">jwois</a> package. Nazim has worked as a developer and system administrator and is a GNU/Linux user since 2000. He is a free software activist and has given speeches on free software at the USTHB GNU/Linux install party in 2010 and 2011 and at the Algeria 2.0 events in 2012.</p> <h4><a href="http://members.hellug.gr/nmav/">Nikos Mavroyanopoulos</a></h4> <p>Is the author of the <a href="/software/gnutls/">GnuTLS</a> library. </p> <h4><a href="http://www.splode.com/~friedman/">Noah Friedman</a></h4> <p>Is a former system administrator and release coordinator for the FSF. He still volunteers as time permits, maintaining a few Lisp programs for <a href="/software/emacs/emacs.html">GNU Emacs</a> and working with others to maintain various GNU packages. </p> <h4>Nils Gey</h4> <p>Developer and public relations of GNU Denemo</p> <h3 id="o">O</h3> <h4><a href="http://ole.tange.dk">Ole Tange</a></h4> <p>Is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/parallel">GNU Parallel</a>. He is actively promoting free software in Denmark.</p> <h4>Ovidiu Predescu <a href="mailto:ovidiu@gmail.com"><ovidiu@gmail.com></a></h4> <p>He was one of the authors of the GNUstep Database Library, and worked on various <a href="/software/gnustep/">GNUstep</a> packages (the GNUstep-make, GNUstep-GUI and GNUstep-X libraries). Between 1998 and 2003 he was the maintainer of the Objective-C frontend and runtime library in GCC.</p> <h3 id="p">P</h3> <h4>Paolo Bonzini <a href="mailto:bonzini@gnu.org"><bonzini@gnu.org></a></h4> <p>Was converted from the Windows world to the <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">GNU/Linux</a> world after he took over maintaining and developing <a href="/software/smalltalk/smalltalk.html">GNU Smalltalk</a>. He develops free software in time left free from studying and advocating the benefits of free software to his the-source-is-mine friends. </p> <h4>Paul Eggert</h4> <p>Paul Eggert has contributed to many GNU packages, including Emacs, GCC, Automake, Bash, CVS, Ghostscript, Grep, Groff, Gzip, and Make. Currently he maintains or co-maintains Diffutils, Patch, RCS, Tar, Gzip, and the tz database, and also contributes to Autoconf, Bison, Coreutils, the GNU C library, and Gnulib. He teaches in the UCLA Computer Science Department. </p> <h4><a href="http://make.mad-scientist.net/">Paul D. Smith</a></h4> <p>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! </p> <h4><a href="http://www.vultaire.net/">Paul Goins</a></h4> <p>Is the maintainer of <a href="/software/gtypist/">GNU Typist</a>. He also works on several other non-GNU free software projects which can be found at his web site.</p> <h4><a href="http://www.pixelbeat.org/">Pádraig Brady</a></h4> <p>Is a co-maintainer of GNU coreutils. He also works on several other non-GNU free software projects which can be found at his web site.</p> <h4>Peter Gerwinski</h4> <p>Maintains the <a href="http://www.gnu-pascal.de/">GNU Pascal Compiler</a> (GPC). </p> <h4>Peter Miller</h4> <p>Has contributed to the <a href="/software/gettext/gettext.html">GNU Gettext</a> 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. </p> <h4><a href="http://www.ceiriog.eclipse.co.uk/">Peter Wainwright</a></h4> <p> An applied mathematician by training, he now works on biological effects of electromagnetic fields. He is maintainer for the debugger <a href="/software/ddd/">DDD</a>. </p> <h4><a href="https://millapet.github.io">Petra Millarova</a></h4> <p>Is one of the maintainers of the C++ package <a href="/software/gama/gama.html">GNU Gama</a> for the adjustment of geodetic networks.</p> <h4>Phillip Rulon</h4> <p>Was the FSF sysadmin for a few years. Does physics in his spare time.</p> <h4>Phil Maker</h4> <p>Is the author of the <a href="/software/nana/">GNU Nana</a> library and is also one of the founders of Quoll Systems. </p> <h4>Phil Nelson</h4> <p>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. </p> <h4>Prof. Masayuki Ida</h4> <p>Was our Vice President for Japan. He organized Japanese events and worked with GNU's friends in Japan. </p> <h3 id="r">R</h3> <h4> Raghav "RG" Gururajan <a href="mailto:rg@raghavgururajan.name"><rg@raghavgururajan.name></a> </h4> <p>RG is a Free Software Hacktivist. He is a contributor to <a href="https://guix.gnu.org">GNU Guix</a>. His vision is to make Guix System an ubiquitous operating system across all public-sectors.</p> <h4> Raif S. Naffah <a href="mailto:raif@fl.net.au"><raif@fl.net.au></a> </h4> <p>Is the maintainer, and one of the authors, of <a href="/software/gnu-crypto/">GNU Crypto</a>. </p> <h4>Rajesh Vaidheeswarran</h4> <p> 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 sysadmins. </p> <h4>Ralf S. Engelschall</h4> <p>Contributes to the free software community since many years. His most popular contributions are <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180520064350/http://thewml.org/">WML</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180522050129/http://www.ossp.org/pkg/tool/eperl/">ePerl</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171231134905/http://www.ossp.org/pkg/tool/iselect">iSelect</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180129072858/http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/mm/">MM</a>, and NPS. He is also a core team member of the Apache Group and has contributed some popular things to the Apache community, including <a href="https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a>, <a href="https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_ssl.html">mod_ssl</a>, the <a href="https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/dso.html">DSO facility</a>, the Apache Autoconf-style Interface (APACI), etc. He's also one of the founders of the <a href="https://www.openssl.org/">OpenSSL</a> project. Finally to the GNU Project he has contributed <a href="/software/shtool/">shtool</a>, and <a href="/software/pth/">Pth</a>. </p> <h4>Raman <a href="mailto:raman@gnu.org"><raman@gnu.org></a></h4> <p>Is a volunteer programmer at SimpleMachines, Italy and is currently hacking on a port of PicoLisp for the Mizar32 computer. He does most of his work with GNU Emacs but he also once wrote a patch to get a free (as in freedom) vi clone to run on a microcontroller. He is a maintainer of and a contributor to <a href="/software/gengen/">GNU Gengen</a>.</p> <h4><a href="https://savannah.gnu.org/users/ramprasadb">Ramprasad B</a> <ramprasad at gnu period org></h4> <p>Is the <a href="/software/emacs/manual/efaq-w32.html">GNU Emacs FAQ for MS Windows</a> maintainer recruited by <a href="https://www.stallman.org">Richard M. Stallman</a>, was a <a href="/people/webmeisters.html">GNU Webmaster</a>, and also works for other <a href="https://savannah.gnu.org/users/ramprasadb/">GNU projects</a>, and is an organiser/participant of various free software events. He is from Bangalore, India.</p> <h4>Reinhard Müller</h4> <p>Is the current maintainer of <a href="/software/gnue/gnue.html">GNU Enterprise</a>.</p> <h4>Remco Bras</h4> <p>Is the maintainer of <a href="/software/rpge">GNU RPGE</a>, a package for building graphical role playing games.</p> <h4><a href="http://rrt.sc3d.org">Reuben Thomas</a> <a href="mailto:rrt@sc3d.org"><rrt@sc3d.org></a></h4> <p>Reuben maintains <a href="/software/zile/">GNU Zile</a> and contributes to much other free software, within and outside GNU. He earns his living as a classical baritone.</p> <h4><a href="https://elephly.net">Ricardo Wurmus</a></h4> <p>Is one of the co-maintainers and developers of <a href="/software/guix">GNU Guix</a>, GNU’s functional package manager. Ricardo is also the primary author and maintainer of <a href="https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/guile-debbugs">Guile-Debbugs</a>, a Guile library to communicate with a Debbugs SOAP service.</p> <h4>Richard Shann</h4> <p>Is the maintainer and main developer of GNU Denemo</p> <h4 id="rms"><a href="http://www.stallman.org/">Richard Stallman</a></h4> <p>Founded the GNU Project in 1984. He is the principal or initial author of <a href="/software/emacs/emacs.html">GNU Emacs</a>, the <a href="/software/gcc/gcc.html">GNU C Compiler</a>, the GNU Debugger GDB and parts of other packages. He founded the <a href="/fsf/fsf.html">Free Software Foundation (FSF)</a> in October 1985, and served as its president until September 2019. <br/> Stallman has never had a Facebook account. He has a twitter account "rmspostcomments" for use with other sites, but has no other Twitter account. Aside from that, any account on these sites claiming to be his is fake.</p> <h4>Robert J. Chassell</h4> <p>Was one of the founders of the Free Software Foundation, and wrote the Introduction to Emacs Lisp Programming. </p> <h4><a href="http://www.math.arizona.edu/~rsm/">Robert Maier</a></h4> <p>Is the primary author of the <a href="/software/plotutils">GNU plotting utilities</a>, and the designer of the <a href="/software/libxmi"><code>libxmi</code></a> scan-conversion library. He professes mathematics at the University of Arizona. </p> <h4>Rob Savoye</h4> <p>Is the author of DejaGnu, the GNU regression testing framework, and libgloss, a BSP library for the GNU tools for embedded systems. </p> <h4>Roel Janssen</h4> <p>Is the author of GNU InklingReader and GNU GWL, and a contributor to GNU Guix.</p> <h4>Roland McGrath</h4> <p>Worked on the GNU Project from 1987 to 1996. He is the principal author of the GNU <a href="/software/libc/libc.html">C Library</a>, co-author of the <a href="/software/hurd/hurd.html">GNU Hurd</a>, co-author of GNU Make, and a major contributor to GNU Autoconf. He has also hacked on many other GNU programs over the years. </p> <h4>Roland Stigge</h4> <p> Is the maintainer of <a href="http://www.antcom.de/gtick/">GNU GTick</a>. </p> <h3 id="s">S</h3> <h4>Sadrul Habib Chowdhury <<a href="mailto:imadil@gmail.com">imadil@gmail.com</a>> </h4> <p> Is the lead developer and co-maintainer of <a href="/software/screen/screen.html">GNU Screen</a>, a full-screen terminal window manager. He is also a lead developer of <a href="https://www.pidgin.im">Pidgin</a>, a multi-protocol instant messaging program. He is a Bangladeshi living in Ottawa, Canada. </p> <h4>Sam Steingold</h4> <p> Is the co-maintainer of <a href="https://clisp.sourceforge.io/">GNU CLISP</a>—an ANSI Common Lisp implementation. He also contributes to <a href="/software/emacs/emacs.html">GNU Emacs</a>. </p> <h4>Sandra Loosemore</h4> <p> Has been involved with the GNU project since 1991, when RMS hired her to write the <a href="https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/glibc-2.2.3/pdf/libc.pdf">GNU C Library Reference Manual</a> as an FSF employee. Nowadays she is a maintainer for <a href="/software/gcc/">GCC</a> and <a href="/software/binutils/">Binutils</a>, and an occasional contributor to <a href="/software/gdb/">GDB</a>. </p> <h4>Sebastian Wieseler</h4> <p> He started idle-ing on #savannah July 17, 2004 and after finishing his school years he was an active member for some time after May 24, 2005. </p> <h4><a href="http://gray.gnu.org.ua">Sergey Poznyakoff</a></h4> <p> Is the author and maintainer of <a href="/software/radius/radius.html">GNU Radius</a>. He is also a developer and co-maintainer of several other GNU projects, among them <a href="https://mailutils.org">Mailutils</a> and <a href="/software/tar/tar.html">Tar</a>. </p> <h4><a href="http://www.tamacom.com/~shigio/">Shigio Yamaguchi</a></h4> <p> Is the author of <a href="/software/global/global.html">GNU GLOBAL</a> source code tag system that works the same way across diverse environments. </p> <h4><a href="http://blog.josefsson.org/">Simon Josefsson</a></h4> <p> Lives in Stockholm, Sweden, and is the main author of GNU Libidn, GNU SASL, GNU Shishi, GNU GSS and maintainer of GnuTLS and GNU Libtasn1. He regularly contribute to many other GNU and non-GNU free software projects through his consulting company, does standardization work in the IETF and has spoken at several conferences. </p> <h4>Stein Krogdahl</h4> <p> Author of Class Simulation included in the GNU Simula Compiler, <a href="/software/cim/">Cim</a>. </p> <h4>Stephen F. 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He is also the singer in <a href="http://www.std.org">Severe Tire Damage</a>, the first band to play live on the Internet. </p> <h4>Steve Oualline</h4> <p>Is a software engineer working in Southern California. He contributed the proto program to the GNU Project. </p> <h4>Steve White</h4> <p>Is the maintainer of and a contributor to <a href="/software/freefont/">GNU FreeFont</a>.</p> <h4>Susan Bassein</h4> <p>Is the initial author and the maintainer of the <a href="/software/dap/dap.html">Dap</a> statistics and graphics package. </p> <h4>Sverre Hvammen Johansen</h4> <p>Author and maintainer of the GNU Simula Compiler, <a href="/software/cim/">Cim</a>.</p> <h4><a href="http://beuc.net">Sylvain Beucler</a></h4> <p>He started working on Savannah in the post-compromise context, since 2004-02-07, so he's had the time to work on about every aspect of the service. Besides that he is the author and maintainer of GNU FreeDink. </p> <h3 id="t">T</h3> <h4>Terje Mjøs </h4> <p> Author of the GNU Simula Compiler, <a href="/software/cim/">Cim</a>. </p> <h4 id="ttn"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221210010510/https://gnuvola.org/">Thien-Thi Nguyen</a> (aka ttn)</h4> <p>Was a hacker, artist, writer, and long-time maintainer and contributor to many GNU programs as well as other free software packages. He was GNU maintainer of <a href="/software/rcs/">rcs</a>, <a href="/software/guile-sdl/">guile-sdl</a>, <a href="/software/alive/">alive</a>, and <a href="/software/superopt/">superopt</a> packages, and worked on <a href="/software/gnugo/">GNU Go</a> as well.</p> <p>Thien-Thi especially loved GNU Emacs, GNU Taler, and GNU Go: he was the author and maintainer of the xpm, gnugo, ascii-art-to-unicode, and hideshow GNU Emacs packages and made substantial contributions to many others such as vc, as well as to GNU Taler and its documentation.</p> <h4>Thomas Bushnell, BSG</h4> <p>Is the principal architect of the <a href="/software/hurd/hurd.html">GNU Hurd</a>, 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.<br /> Thomas was renamed from Michael Bushnell in 1996. </p> <h4><a href="https://retout.co.uk">Tim Retout</a></h4> <p>Is the maintainer of <a href="/software/enscript/">GNU Enscript</a>. </p> <h4>Tom Cato Amundsen <tca@gnu.org></h4> <p>Is the author of <a href="/software/solfege/solfege.html">GNU Solfege</a>, a ear training program for GNOME, and he has also done a little work with fonts and mudela-book for <a href="http://www.lilypond.org">GNU Lilypond</a>.<br /> He recently got his Master of Education in Music, but spends far too much time programming Solfege and using free software. </p> <h3 id="w">W</h3> <h4><a href="https://werner.eifzilla.de/">Werner Koch</a></h4> <p>Is the principal author of <a href="/software/gnupg/gnupg.html">GNU Privacy Guard</a>, which he continues to develop and maintain. </p> <h4><a href="http://www.wernergkrebs.com/">W. G. 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He is a strong supporter and advocate of free software and is also a Debian Developer and occasionally participates in various free software projects.</p> <h4>Yngve Svendsen</h4> <p>Is the maintainer of Gnatsweb, a web interface for the Gnats bug tracking system. </p> <h4>Yoni Rabkin (aka yrk)</h4> <p>Has been volunteering for the <a href="https://www.fsf.org/licensing/">GPL Compliance Lab</a> since 2006 and is the maintainer of <a href="https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emms">Emms</a>.</p> <h4><a href="https://ypei.me">Yuchen Pei</a></h4> <p>is a programmer, mathematician and free software advocate. He is a co-maintainer of LibreJS, maintainer of h-node.org, and an FSF licensing volunteer. He also contributed to other free software projects like pandoc, rt-liberation, emms and emacs, as well as organises a libreplanet group called <a href="https://libreau.org">LibreAustralia</a>.</p> <h3 id="z">Z</h3> <h4>Zak Greant <<a href="mailto:zak@greant.com">zak@greant.com</a>> </h4> <p>has been a volunteer for the Free Software Foundation Compliance Lab since 2004 and is a member of <a href="http://gplv3.fsf.org/discussion-committees/D">GPL v3 Committee D</a>. 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