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        <productname>Open Source Native XML Database</productname>
        <title>Credits</title>
        <author>
            <firstname>Wolfgang M.</firstname>
            <surname>Meier</surname>
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                <address format="linespecific">
                    <email>wolfgang at exist-db.org</email>
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    <chapter>
        <title>Who we are</title>

        <section>
            <title>About Us</title>

            <para>eXist has been founded by Wolfgang Meier (wolfgang at exist-db.org)
            in late 2000, after reading a bunch of articles about efficient indexing methods 
            for XML during his summer holiday. The project has been continuously developed
            since then. Wolfgang is still project leader and the main
            core developer of eXist.</para>

            <para>The original plans have changed quite a bit over time, mostly in response 
            to user demands. For example, while the main focus 
            of eXist has been on document-centric documents in the first place, updating 
            documents via XUpdate has become a major topic recently as more and more data-centric 
            applications were developed with eXist.</para>

        </section>

        <section>
            <title>Contributing</title>

            <para>You are welcome to contribute to
            the future development of eXist. If you would like to get involved, the first step 
            is to join the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=17691">mailing list</a>. 
            You may also have a look at the 
            <ulink href="roadmap.xml">roadmap</ulink> to see
            the known issues that need to be addressed.</para>

            <para>Check <ulink url="building.xml">Building eXist</ulink> for documentation on how
            to access the subversion repository. To become an active committer, start to post patches to the 
            mailing list. You should also read the doc about 
            <ulink href="developper.html">bug reporting and junit
            tests</ulink>. You will get write access to the CVS if your patches
            are ok.</para>
        </section>

        <section>
            <title>Credits</title>

            <para>The following people have contributed to eXist (by writing code or supplying patches) or are active
            committers (in strict alphabetical order):</para>

            <unorderedlist>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Luigi Bai (patches)</para>
                </listitem>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Timo Boehme (patches)</para>
                </listitem>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Sebastian Bossung (schema service)</para>
                </listitem>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Pierrick Brihaye (developer)</para>
                </listitem>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Mark R. Diggory (tomcat realm)</para>
                </listitem>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Mark Harrah (XACML)</para>
                </listitem>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Piotr Kaminski (patches)</para>
                </listitem>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Stephan Körnig (hashtables)</para>
                </listitem>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Igor Abade V. Leite (patches)</para>
                </listitem>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Chris Marasti-Georg (developer)</para>
                </listitem>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Wolfgang Meier (main developer)</para>
                </listitem>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Alex Milowski (patches; LDAP security manager)</para>
                </listitem>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Per Nyfelt (JBoss integration)</para>
                </listitem>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Leif-Jöran Olsson (patches)</para>
                </listitem>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Adam Retter (developer)</para>
                </listitem>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Giulio Valentino (developer)</para>
                </listitem>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Jean-Marc Vanel (developer)</para>
                </listitem>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Dannes Wessels (developer)</para>
                </listitem>
            </unorderedlist>

            <para>(probably, some
            names are missing here, please send a message to Wolfgang to complete
            this)</para>
        </section>
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