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Main Developers:
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(In Historical Order)

Robin Clark <rclark@hmc.edu> wrote the original X-Accountant in Motif 
   as a school project, taking it to version 0.9 by October 1997.
   Although every single line of his code has been re-written (several 
   times over), his name appears as a credit in almost every file. 
   Such is the power of copyrights. 

Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org> liked what he saw: the GUI was slick,
   the code was documented and well structured, and it was all GPL'ed.  
   And so he re-wrote it: adding cell-widgets to XbaeMatrix, so that 
   the combobox and arrows would make an even slicker GUI, rewrote the 
   X-Accountant internals to add double-entry, an account hierarchy,
   split out a transaction mini-engine, add support for stocks, and spiffed
   up the help menus.  All for version 1.0 as of January 1998.  Since
   then, for version 1.1 & 1.2, the engine was expanded & refined, and the 
   register window code completely redesigned and made mostly 
   Motif-(and GUI-)independent.

Jeremy Collins <jcollins@gnucash.org> publicized the GnoMoney project 
   widely and broadly, and then changed its name to GnuCash.  (Actually, 
   he put the selection of the name up to popular vote. We all learned
   that democracy is not a good way to pick names.) Jeremy registered 
   the domain name, and created and maintained the gnucash.org web site 
   for years, and got the initial GTK/gnome code working. The newest 
   website design is Jeremy's as well. 

Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> abused everyone for not using perl,
   and then after we added Perl support, dumped Perl in favor of 
   Guile/Scheme support. Rob maintined the build infrastructure for a 
   while, added user preferences, and re-wrote the reports in scheme. 
   One of Rob's recent contributions is the change-over of the 
   file-format to XML. He is now concentrating on scheme performance. 
   He is the g-wrap guile wrapper maintainer. 

Dave Peticolas <dave@krondo.com> worked on most parts of Gnucash, especially
   the register and GUI.

Bill Gribble <grib@billgribble.com> is not shy, or softly spoken. So don't 
   be shy if you find a bug in his code: QIF import, query API and 
   transaction search, check-printing, commodity and currency support, gtkhtml 
   integration and report printing, pgp support, guppi integration, and the 
   new main window layout. 

Robert Graham Merkel <rgmerk@mira.net> extensive work on reports and
   reporting infrastructure, gnome GUI work, and user preferences.

James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org> design doc patches, XML refactoring, 
   automated test suite, new file hierarchy import.

Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de> is a report-generating 
   monster. He's been one of the largest contributors to the current report
   infrastructure, creating many of the important reports. 
   He has also contributed HBCI support.

Joshua Sled <jsled@asynchronous.org> works on scheduled transactions
   and budgeting.

Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com> wrote the business-accounting package
   for Gnucash. This includes the Customer/Vendor database, Job tracking,
   Order entry, Invoicing, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and
   related technologies.  In the process he re-wrote the Query engine,
   modularized the Book object storage, and modularized the backend
   to allow pluggable objects.

David Hampton <hampton@employees.org> is an all-around
   making-things-better guy. He is working on cleaning up the GUI and
   on fleshing out support for stocks. David has picked up Dave's
   previous tendency to hacks obsessively on GnuCash. (Something in
   the name?)

Chris Lyttle <chris@wilddev.net> Administers the GnuCash bug list.
   Is currently writing new help and integrating and finishing a
   concepts and tutorial written by Carol Champagne. Looks after
   releasing new GnuCash versions and updating the website.

Benoit Grégoire <bock@step.polymtl.ca> coded a long awaited OFX module
   for GnuCash and wrote the external libOFX library that it uses.

Other Contributors:
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(In alphabetical order)

Andrew Arensburger <arensb@cfar.umd.edu> for FreeBSD & other patches
Matt Armstrong <matt_armstrong@bigfoot.com> for misc fixes
Fred Baube <fred@moremagic.com> for attempted Java port/MoneyDance
Dennis Björklund <dennisb@cs.chalmers.se> Swedish translation
Andreas Bogk <andreas@andreas.org> Postgres backend patch
Per Bojsen <bojsen@worldnet.att.net> several core dump fixes
Terry Boldt <tboldt@attglobal.net> financial calculator and expression parser
Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> xml version configure patch
Simon Britnell <simon.britnell@peace.com> patch to RPM spec
Christopher B. Browne <cbbrowne@hex.net> for perl, lots of scheme and documentation updates
Paul Campbell <kemitix@users.sourceforge.net> reconcile children patch
Conrad Canterford <conrad@mail.watersprite.com.au> register bug fix
Bill Carlson <wwc@wwcnet.nu> performance improvements
David Mar?n Carre?o <davefx@aspl.f2s.com> Spanish translation of account setup.
Carol Champagne <carol@io.com> documentation & a patient GUI usability critic
Nikos Charonitakis <charosn@her.forthnet.gr> Greek translation
Graham Chapman <grahamc@zeta.org.au> for the xacc-rpts addon package
George Chen <georgec@sco.com> for MS-Money QIF's & fixes
Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com> configure.in patch
Kenneth Christiansen <kenneth@gnome.org> Danish translation
Matthew Condell <mcondell@bbn.com> FreeBSD patch
Patrick Condron <pcondon@rackspace.com> for webserver and T1 connection (credits to rackspace.com)
Raphael Dechenaux <raphael.dechenaux@worldonline.fr> register patch
Ciaran Deignan <Ciaran.Deignan@bull.net> for AIX binary version
Glen Ditchfield <gjditchfield@acm.org> updated documentation
Tyson Dowd <tyson@tyse.net> for config/make patches & debian maint
Koen D'Hondt <ripley@xs4all.nl> for Solaris patches to XmHTML
Bob Drzyzgula <bob@mostly.com> for budgeting design notes
Paul Fenwick <pjf@schools.net.au> ASX support, Finance::Quote
Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr> patch to gnc-prices
Valek Filippov <frob@df.ru> messages Russian translation
Jan-Uwe Finck <jufi@nerdnet.de> for messages German translation
Kevin Finn <kevinfinn@mediaone.net> auto-decimal point, options, auto interest xfer patches
Ron Forrester <rjf@aracnet.com> for gnome patches
Dave Freese <DFreese@osc.uscg.mil> for leap-year fix
John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> file i/o fix for 64-bit architectures
Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org> XML patches
Daniel Hagerty <hag@linnaean.org> patch to balance sheet report
Mitsuo Hamada <mhamada@redhat.com> messages Japanese translations
Otto Hammersmith <otto@bug.redhat.com> for RedHat RPM version
Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net> updated currency documentation
Alexandru Harsanyi <haral@codec.ro> for core dumps, lockups, gtk work
John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> engine patch
Jon Kåre Hellan <hellan@acm.org> misc core dump fixes
Hendrik-Jan Heins <hjh@passys.nl> Dutch translation
Claus Hindsgaul <claus_h@image.dk> messages Danish translation
Péter Hosszú <hosszu@web.de> Hungarian translation
Tomokazu Iwashita <iwashita@center.nitech.ac.jp> Japanese translation of xea
Miquel Jordana Vilamitjana <jjvmjv@mundomail.net> Spanish translation of manual
Prakash Kailasa <PrakashK@bigfoot.com> for gnome build fixes
Alexey Kakunin <small@arcadia.spb.ru> quickfill patch for Cyrillic
Ben Kelly <ben.kelly@ieee.org> for Motif menu bug fix, core dump fixes
Tom Kludy <tkludy@csd.sgi.com> for SGI Irix port
Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu> date accelerator bug fix
Sven Kuenzler <sk@xgm.de> for SuSE README file
Eneko Lacunza <enlar@enlar.net> Spanish Translation
Bryan Larsen <blarsen@ada-works.com> guile budget report
Chris J (Oakton) Leach <LeachCJ@az1.bp.com> autoconf patch
Nicholas Lee <nj.lee@plumtree.co.nz> scheme bug fix
Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm> for fixing a hang
Georg Lehner <Jorge.Lehner@gmx.net> Nicaraguan Spanish translation
Ted Lemon <mellon@andare.fugue.com> for NetBSD port
Yannick Le Ny <y-le-ny@ifrance.com> French translations
Frederic Lespez <frederic.lespez@wanadoo.fr> French account templates fixes.
Chao-Hsiung Liao <pesder.liao@msa.hinet.net> Traditional Chinese translation
Grant Likely <glikely@nortelnetworks.com> gnome and engine patches
Volodymyr M. Lisivka <lvm@mystery.lviv.net> Ukrainian translation
Duarte Loreto <happyguy_pt@hotmail.com> message and documentation Portuguese translations
Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas@gnome.org> Norwegian translations
Heath Martin <martinh@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> gnome patches, major register work
Matt Martin <mgmartin@abacusnet.net> guile error handling code
Juan Manuel García Molina <juanmagm@mail.com> messages Spanish translation
Christopher Molnar <molnarc@mandrakesoft.com> build system patch
Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu> port to alpha-dec-osf4.0f
Lucimar Moresco <lucimarmoresco@hotmail.com> pt_BR account templates
G. Allen Morris III <gam3@ann.softgams.com> for QIF core dump
Steven Murdoch <sjmurdoch@bigfoot.com> gnc-prices fix for London exchange
Jose Carlos Nascimento <joseca@psabs.com> Brazilian Portuguese translation
Brent Neal <brent@baton.phys.lsu.edu> TIAA-CREF support.
Johnny Ernst Nielsen <j.e.nielsen@iname.com> messages Danish translation
Stefan Nobis <stefan-ml@snobis.de> German translation patch
Martin Norbäck <d95mback@dtek.chalmers.se> Swedish translation
Peter Norton <spacey@inch.com> for a valiant attempt at a GTK port
Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> guile configure patch
Peter O'Gorman <peter@pogma.com> file i/o patches, Mac OS X patches
OmNiBuS <webmaster@obsidian.uia.net> web site graphics & content
Gordon Oliver <gordo@pincoya.com> multiple currency status line patch
Alan Orndorff <dwarf@solarisresources.com> Solaris packager
Myroslav Opyr <mopyr@IPM.Lviv.UA> for misc patches
Laurent P{'e}lecq <laurent.pelecq@wanadoo.fr> i18n patches with gettext
Alain Peyrat <Alain.Peyrat@nmu.alcatel.fr> for configure.in patches
Zdenko Podobný <zdpo@mailbox.sk> Slovak translations
Peter Pointner <peter@wuzel.m.isar.de> QIF import fixes, Qt patches
Gavin Porter <maufk@csv.warwick.ac.uk> for euro style dates
Tomas Pospisek <tpo@spin.ch> Debian patches
Paul Poulain <famille.p.poulain@free.fr> French translations
Ron Record <rr@sco.com> for SCO Unixware & OpenServer binaries
Keith Refson <Keith.Refson@earth.ox.ac.uk> Solaris fixes
Dirk Schoenberger <schoenberger@signsoft.com> Qt/KDE work
Jan Schrage <jan.schrage@urz.uni-heidelberg.de> documentation patches
Christopher Seawood <cls@seawood.org> for XbaeMatrix core dump
Alessandro Seveso <aleseveso@tiscalinet.it> messages Italian translations
Mike Simons <msimons@fsimons01.erols.com> misc configure.in patches
Keld Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk> messages Danish translation
Richard Skelton <rich@brake.demon.co.uk> for Solaris cleanup
Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas@urgent.rug.ac.be> Macro for filtering system directories
Henning Spruth <spruth@bigfoot.com> for German text & euro date rework
Ben Stanley <bds02@uow.edu.au> test infrastructure
Robby Stephenson <robby.stephenson@usa.net> register & file history patches
Michael T. Garrison Stuber <garrisonstuber@bellsouth.net> report patch
Bartek Szady <bszx@bszxdomain.edu.eu.org> engine and build system patches
Herbert Thoma <tma@iis.fhg.de> gnome register & euro support patches
James A. Treacy <treacy@debian.org> doc patch
Arnold Troeger <troeger@samart.co.th> Mandrake packager
Diane Trout <detrout@earthlink.net> scheme QIF import patch
Richard -Gilligan- Uschold <uschold@cs.ucf.edu> tax report & txf export
Matthew Vanecek <mevanecek@yahoo.com> for pg_config configure.in patch
Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> patch to gnc-prices, qif import fixes
Rob Walker <rob@valinux.com> guile and register patches
Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> income per day-of-week report
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> messages  British translations
Ken Yamaguchi <gooch@ic.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> QIF import fixes; MYM import
Shimpei Yamashita <shimpei@gol.com> messages Japanese translation
Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net> postgres configure patch

... and I am sure that I have missed many others ...
