GNU's Who
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Is the maintainer of GNU OrgaDoc. He has been a user of GNU/Linuxsince 2007.
Was the maintainer of the GNUstep project. He's writtenand debugged many of the classes in GNUstep as well as asimple DPS emulator for X.
Is co-maintainer ofGNU Stowand occasional contributor to other GNU software such asGNU LilyPondandOrg-Mode. He has used GNU software forover half his life, especiallyGNU/LinuxandGNU Emacs.
Is fascinated by robot vision. She is the sole author ofGNU C-Graph, theproduct of an imagined nexus between the movie "Blade Runner" andher 1983 BSc. Electrical Engineering Honours dissertation "InteractiveComputer Package Demonstrating: Sampling Convolution and the FFT".
Adrienne lives in Jamaica.
Akim maintained GNUa2psandAutoconf, contributed toAutomake, and maintainsBison. He is a teacher/researcher atLRDE, theEPITAR&D laboratory. He isworking onVcsn, aplatform dedicated to automata and rational expressions, composed ofan efficient C++ library, a Python interface, and a graphical userinterface on top of IPython.
Al Davis
Is the principal author and maintainer of GnuCap, theGnu Circuit Analysis Package. He is a professor ofelectrical engineering at Idaho State University (http://www.isu.edu/)with research in analog and mixed signal design andsimulation.
GNU/Hurd, GNU-es and GNOME contributor. Started working in GNU-esand founded Hurd Hispano, GNU-Hurd spanish community.
Is the author of theGNUlibmathevallibrary.
Ales Cepek
Is the co-author and maintainer of the C++ packageGNUGaMafor adjustment of geodetic networks.
Is the author of GNU barcode. He develops freesoftware for a living and advocates free ("libero")software for a mission.
Is a GNU screen developer and maintainer.
Is one of the maintainers ofGNUlibtool,GNUAutoconf, and the creator of GNU Ad HoC and GNUCVS Utilities. He regularly contributes to many otherGNU and non-GNU Free Software projects such as Kaffe,Amanda and Samba. As a researcher, he has createdGuarana, a reflective architecture implemented as anextension of Kaffe.
Is the co-maintainer of GNU Jami.
Started as a member of theGNU Evaluation Team,became the translator into Catalan of the Georg'sBrave GNUWorldand member of the Catalan translation teamin early 2003, eventually becoming the coordinatoruntil early 2007. For some time after late 2004, he was also the GNUTranslations Manager, coordinating the efforts ofthe severalteamsworking on the translation of the GNU web site,after Masayuki Hatta.
Alex Sassmannshausen
Is the maintainer of GNU Glean. He is primarily interested in therelation of Free Software to humanity's ongoing efforts “to emerge fromits self-incurred immaturity”.
Is the maintainer of the GNU networking utilities. He lives in Sweden.
Ali Reza Hayati isahacker,cypherpunk,computer user freedomactivist, andfree cultureadvocate.
Is the author and maintainer ofgretl. He isProfessor of Economics at Wake Forest University,North Carolina.
Is a free software activist who wearsa few hatsaround GNU, volunteers with the FSF, and is a core organizer andsysadmin forEmacsConfand thefounder ofGNU Canada.
Is the author and maintainer ofFreeIPMI.He is a member of the FSF-India working group,currently leads the Free Software division ofCalifornia Digital as CTO and built the world's secondfastest Super Computer, code named "Thunder", entirelyout of Free Software. Occasionally, he gives speechesabout Free Software.
Is co-maintainer ofGNU Emacs. He contributedto:GCC,binutilsand GNU Emacs. Within GNU Emacs he wrote the native compiler in order to allowEmacs to compile Elisp to native code.
Is a co-author and the maintainer ofGNU MPC,a C library for the arithmetic of complex numbers with arbitrarily highprecision and correct rounding of the result.
Andreas Grünbacher
Is a co-maintainer of GNU patch. He also is the primary author ofquilt(a utility formanaging stacks of patches), and a contributor to the Linux kernel.
Is co-maintainer ofGNU Classpathand also handles merges of the GNU Classpath code into the GCJ componentofGCC. He has been a user ofGNU/Linuxsince 1998.
Andrew Makhorin
Is the author and maintainer ofGLPK(GNU LinearProgramming Kit), Russia.
Anto Cvitić
Is anAssociateMemberof theFSFand maintainer ofggradebook, whichis a student grade tracking program.
Anton McClure
Is the maintainer ofGNUtrition, and anAssociate Memberof the Free Software Foundation.
Antonio Cisternino
Is the author of GNUSXML, the easiestway to implement a markup language. He is active inthe development of many Free Software programs.
Is the author and maintainer ofDdrescue,Moe,Ocradand thelzipformat used todistribute some GNU packages.He also maintainsGNU ed.
Anuradha Ratnaweera
Is an engineering undergraduate student living in SriLanka. He is the author and maintainer of theGNUFont Editor (GFE).
Maintains GNU awk (gawk) and is the author of itsmanual, The GNU Awk User's Guide. He has written aseries of articles on GNU for Linux Journal.
Hehas a wife and three children, and, among otherthings, is an amateur Talmudist, both Babylonian andJerusalem. He is now living happily in Israel,although he still has the Georgia license plateGNUAWK.
Maintainer for the GNU Slip package, an API substitute for the C++ STLlist/queue library.
Is the author and maintainer ofGNU Datamashand a co-maintainer ofGNU CoreutilsandGNU sed.He is additionally aGNU Savannahhacker.
Wrote or organized (and maintains) theJACALSymbolic Mathematics System, theSLIBPortable Scheme Library, the TeXinfo and HTML versionsof theRevisedReports on the Algorithmic Language Scheme, theSCMScheme Implementation, theSIMSYNCHDigital Logic Simulation System, theINFOBARchange-bar annotater for INFO files, and theHITCHchange annotater for HTML files.
He is aGNU/Linuxfan since the early days and he isthe author of theGNU oSIP library.He is working in the IP telecom area in the hope thatone day everybody will unplug their 50 years oldtraditional phone for ever.
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He is aGNU/Linuxenthusiast from India. He is a member of the Free SoftwareFoundation of India working committee. He is a full timeslacker and hacks on Python when he has some time. He isalso a very enthusiastic speaker at numerous Free SoftwareConferences. He was a contributor to GNU Freetalk, theFree Jabber client.
Has been writing free software since the early 1980s, and was an earlycontributor to GNU Emacs. Currently is project leader forGNU Mailman, the GNU mailing list manager.
Ben Elliston
Is the maintainer of the config.{guess,sub} scripts. Ben lives inCanberra, Australia.
Is the author ofGNUlibavl, which he continues to develop andmaintain. He is also the author ofGNUPSPP.
Is the founder and main developer of Ark Linux (later merged intoOpenMandriva), and a contributor to various other free softwareprojects.
Bob Glickstein
Is a long-time intermittent contributor toGNU Emacsandother GNU software. He's the author ofGNU Stowand the'sregex' Emacs Lisp package. He's also written otherfree software, notably Latte, and a handfulof other packages.
Bradley M. Kuhn (aka bkuhn)
Began working with the Free Software Foundation andthe GNU project as a volunteer in the mid-1990s. InFebruary 2001, he was hired full-time. He served asExecutive Director of the FSF until 2005, and is nowthe CTO at the Software Freedom Law Center. Mr. Kuhncontributes to GNU as a volunteer by hacking onvarious Free Software programs and Free Documentation.
Is the maintainer of theGNU Source Release Collection (GSRC)andGNU pyconfigure. He is also a member oftheGNU Evaluation TeamandtheGNU Advisory Committee.
Wore many hats at the FSF beginning in 2002, includingGNU Chief Webmaster, intern, and Shipping Manager, andlicensing guru at theFSF ComplianceLab.
Brian J. Fox
Has been involved with the FSF since 1986. He is theauthor of the GNU shell BASH, the GNU Texinfo compilerMakeinfo and the viewer Info, the GNU ReadlineLibrary, GNU Finger, parts of GDB andGNU Emacs, andother lesser projects.
Brian Gough
Is one of the developers of theGNU ScientificLibraryand its current maintainer. He lives in the United Kingdom.
Volunteer maintainer for GNU GLeem as of September 2015. Is deeplyfascinated with 3D graphics and data visualization. Is a deep freesoftware advocate and loves to play video games and leads theDMUXproject to try to create a better freedomrespecting environment for gamers.
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Carlo Wood
Is the maintainer ofGNU which,libcwd,ircuand prototypeMakefiles, and has been the maintainer ofGNUindent. Carlo is best known for hisimprovements to IRC (starting withundernet)but contributed to numerous other projects. For thepast few years he worked mostly onlibcw, anambitious C++ project existing of building blocks forheavy-duty networking applications.
Is the current maintainer ofGNUGNATS. After using GNATS for years in his varioussysadmin and programming jobs, he felt it was time togive back to the community. In college, he wasaddicted to emacs, but was converted to the dark side,vim, in his professional career. Don't hold itagainst him.
Charles Henry Schoonover
Is the author and maintainer ofGNU WebPublish. He isalso a libertarian political activist who hasdemonstrated for legalizing marijuana by smoking ajoint at a Harlingen, Texas city coucil meeting andalso by running for Congress.
Is the Bash maintainer and is a networks engineer whoworks for Case Western Reserve University inCleveland, Ohio USA.
Is the author and maintainer of theGNU Nanotext editor.
Chris Simon
Is a maintainer ofGNU Miscfiles.
Christian Grothoff
Is the principal author and maintainer ofGNUnet,libextractorandGNUlibmicrohttpd. He is currently an Emmy Noether Research Group leaderat TU Munich.
Is the author and maintainer ofLiquid War 6.
Christopher Dimech
Is the author and maintainer ofGNU Behistun, a packagefor geological mapping with applications to disaster hazard risk levelforecasting, disaster early warning and response.
Christopher Gutteridge
Is the main author of GNU EPrints (well, version 2,anyway). He can be found working as a SystemProgrammer, Webmaster, Unix Admin, Teaching Supportand EPrints developer and support (often all at once)at theDepartment ofElectronics and Computer Scienceat the Universityof Southampton. Chris denies that the motivationbehind GNU EPrints was that otherwise his greatestcontribution to Free Software would be theGIMPcoffee stainscript-fu effect.
Author and maintainer ofMll2html, a program toreformat an ASCII file. Also author of theEpeios project.
Is the original author and maintainer ofGNUSource Installer, and contributes to other FreeSoftware projects.
Is system architect and co-author for the GnuSpeechtext-speech-system based on an articulatory tube-modelsynthesiser, and a speech-event form of parametergeneration. His interests include computer generatedspeech intonation, distributed object systems,computersecurity and web applications.
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Is the author and maintainer ofGNU Mcron, atraditional cron replacement which also accepts job specifications in Guile(Scheme).
Is a co-maintainer ofGNU Go.
Daniel Valentine
Is the author and maintainer of the GNU packageCombine.
Darshit Shah
Is a co-maintainer ofGNU Wget.
Is a free software activist living in Bournemouth, UK,working towards the software freedom of fonts. He hasdelivered several lectures on free software.
David C. Niemi
Has a BS in Computer Engineering from the Universityof Illinois. He maintainsUnixbenchand helps maintainMtools. Hehas also contributed patches to the Linux kernel andvarious GNU utilities. He is the lead systemadministrator for the tux.org domain and writes paperson related topics.
Is a member of the GCC steering committee and initiated the GCCRuntime Library Exception.
David MacKenzie
Wrote or polished many of the GNU core utilities and theirdocumentation. He was the principal designer andauthor of Autoconf, and prototyped Automake. He hasworked 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 tofree software from time to time.
Is principal and co-author for the GnuSpeechtext-speech-system based on an articulatory tube-modelsynthesiser, and a speech-event form of parametergeneration. His interests include speech recognitionand synthesis (phonology, rhythm, intonation andmodels), speech animation, and AI.
Is the author and maintainer ofGNU Guile-CV,GNU G-GolfandGNU Foliot. He co-maintainsGuile-Lib,GNU Guile-GnomeandGNU Guile-Clutter. He contributes toGNU Guile,Guile-Squee,Guile-SQLite3,G-wrapandGuile-Cairo.
David Sugar
Is one of the authors and principal maintainer ofGNU Common C++,which is a portable general purpose C++ framework forapplication development. David Sugar also founded theGNUBayonneproject, and was one of the principalfounders of OST, a commercial entity (now inactive) that used todevelop and promote free GPL-licensed telephony solutions.
Web Developer at the FSF.Contributor toGNU GuileandGNU Guix.
MaintainsGNUSonganizerandco-maintainsGNUInetutils. He was a past contributortoGNOWSYSand contributestoGNU Parted.
Is the sponsor and primary administratorof Blastwave.org [unavailable as of Dec 2012].The Blastwave project offers the largest free softwarestack to Solaris users worldwide with fifty mirrorsites including primary mirrors in Germany, China,Australia and United States. Blastwave allows usersto freely package GNU and free software for free usageby anyone. Any user may join the project and packagesoftware or even just experiment with various Solarisincantations including OpenSolaris. The project hasbeen running continuously since 2002.
Is the maintainer ofwdiff.
David has played an involved part with theWebmasters, including serving asChief Webmaster, and was maintainer ofGNU Rot[t]log. He continues to focus his work onfree documentation, using free software, and participates onGNU Mailing Liststo provide bug fixes andfeature additions.
Has been porting GNU software to MS-DOS since around 1989, culminating inDJGPP. Also wrotedoschk, and maintainshis own GNU web sitewith online docand package listings. Currently works for Cygnus porting GNU software to Windows NT.
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Emmanuel Medernach
Is the author and maintainer of SpeedX.
Is currently one of the maintainersofGNU M4andGNU Autoconf.He has additionally contributed to several other GNUprojects, such as Findutils, Coreutils, Automake, Libtool,and Classpath, and maintains ports of several GNU programsfor Cygwin.
Is the author and maintainer ofGNU Ball and PaddleandGNU SpeedX.
Eric S. Raymond
Wrote the VC (version control), GUD (Grand Unified Debugger) and asm (assembler) modesinGNU Emacs. He's also responsible for a lotof the header comments in the Emacs Lisp library. He wrote the pic documentationreleased with groff-1.11.
Is a Linux kernel hacker, free software advocate and member of the FreeSoftware Foundation. He is the author of GNU DSView, a free replacement forthe KVM/IP rendering engine.
Is co-maintainer ofGNUlibmicrohttpd, 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 andlikes to work in hi-tech projects.
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Filippo Rusconi
Is the author and maintainer ofGNU polyxmass.This software suite allows users to perform mass spectrometric data simulationsand analyses for whatever polymer chemistry type and polymer sequence.
Francesco Potortì
Is the maintainer ofetags, which is part ofEmacs. He contributedthe 68020 assembler code ofgzip, portedEmacsto the Motorola Delta 68k architecture, wrote someEmacspackages, anddid various minor things.
Franco Iacomella <yaco (at) gnu.org>
He was an university investigator in Argentina. He wasinvolved in multiple GNU subprojects in relation with politics,licenses, documentation, translations and education, andoften spoke at conferences about GNU Project and free softwaremovement.
Frank de Lange
Is a software evaluator for the GNU Project and develops a Gnome/GTK port of theLyX document processor.
(since late 1997)webmasterfor gnu.org. Along time advocate of GNU things and a general unix sysadmin haque.
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Georg C. F. Greve
Physicist and Free Software advocate. Author of theBrave GNU World, speaker for theGNU Project, name-giver of theGNU Lesser General Public Licenseandprincipal author and maintainer ofThe Xlogmasterand some other software projects. Also initiator and presidentof theFree Software Foundation Europe.
Is a member of theGCCsteering committee and maintainsthe web pages (and documentation) for GCC. In addition, between 2000 and 2003he maintained gnatsweb, a web-based front-end for theGNATSbug tracking system.
Is the maintainer oftheFisicaLabproject. He also contributeswithGNUstepproject. He lives inQuetzaltenango, Guatemala. Besides programming computers, Germán likesmathematics, physics and read books.
Is the maintainer of some GNU packages includingwgetandgcal. During the years he contributed toseveral other packagesincludingGCC,gnulib,coreutils, diff,Emacs. Hehelps managing the Google Summer of Code program for the GNU project.
Gordon Matzigkeit
Was the principal author ofGNU Libtool.He is currently working on GNU system integration, with a focus on theGNU Hurd.
Graham Percival
Is a co-maintainer ofGNULilyPond, and editor of most of its documentation.
Is the maintainer of the GNUstep project. He has been themaintainer and principal author of GNU Gorm(InterfaceBuilder) for) the past few years and haswritten many classes in gui (AppKit) for the project. Hesincerely hopes that the project will reach its fullpotential.
Is the currentGNU Stowmaintainer. He is aSavannahcontributor and administrator. He isalso aDebiandeveloper.
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Han-Wen Nienhuys
Is one of the main authors ofLilyPond,the music typesetter of the GNU Project. He currently is a PhD. student at theComputer Science Department of Utrecht University.
Henning Köster
Is the author ofGNU POC.
Henrik Abelsson
Tries to do his part in bringing Free Software to the world by being a maintainer ofGNU Messenger. Lives in Linköping, Sweden.
Is the author and maintainer ofXnee.He also advocates the GNU philosophy in Sweden.
Hilaire L. S. Fernandes
Is the author ofDrGeoand DrGenius geometryGNU software. He is also a volunteer at theOFSETorganization, promoting free softwaredevelopment for education.
Hugo Gayosso
Was a software evaluator for the GNU Project and coordinator ofthe Spanish translation team for the GNU web site.
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Ian Dunn
Is the author and maintainer forGNU Aris.
Wrote GNU/Taylor UUCP. He has contributed to GNU binutils and manyother packages.
Ian Murdock
Led the development ofDebianGNU/Linuxfrom its inception in 1993 until 1996. Murdock died onDecember 28, 2015 in San Francisco.
Igor Támara Patiño
Was translator to Spanish of GNU web pages and co-maintainer ofGNU Typist.
MaintainsGNUjdocand translatesBrave GNU Worldinto Japanese.
Ileana Dumitrescu
Is the maintainer of GNU libtool. She also maintains zvbi andperforms maintenance for several packages as a Debian Maintainer:debianutils, game-music-emu, etc.
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Is the maintainer of GNU Sather programming language. Also a contributor ofsome other Free Software projects.
Wrote and maintains GNU Fortran (g77) as a volunteer for theFree Software Foundation for most of 1988 through the present. Craig lives inAshland, Massachusetts.
James Youngman
James is the maintainer ofGNU Findutilsand is the Author ofGNU CSSC.He also contributes to a number of other GNU projects includinggnulibandCoreutils.James has worked on the2004 POSIX standardand with theUK's Unix & Open Systems User Group.
Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Is one of the main authors ofLilyPond, themusic 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.
Jason was the designer and author for GNU.FREE, a heavy dutyInternet voting system. He currently lives in Brighton, UK and works on variousprojects.
He is active in the environmental, human rights and free software movements andenjoys speaking & writing about the issues they encompass. In his spare time heis a keen fencer, his preferred weapon being the sabre.
Jason M. Felice
Is the author and maintainer ofGNU Patchwork.
is the maintainer ofGNUtritionand theGNU Chief Webmaster. He is also a member of theGNU Advisory Committee.
Is the principal author ofGNU Gzipwhich hecontinues to maintain.
Jeff Binder
Is a co-author and co-maintainer ofGNU Leg(Librariesand Engines for Games).
Has been involved with GNU since 1985, when he helped Richard Stallman design GCC. Hehas contributed to many free software packages includingEmacs, the GNUC Library, theX Window Systemand others. Jeff did theoriginal port of many GNU packages to Windows NT.
Worked on theGNU Source Installer,and was a contributor to upstream Linux, the kernel. He was also themaintainer ofGNU Dap,GNU Trueprint, andGNU GLeem. He is currently involved in buildingand sharing knowledge using free software.
Jeremiah Benham
Is one of the two main developers of GNU Denemo
Jia Wang
Is the author and maintainer ofGNU Proxyknife.
Has worked for the Free Software Foundation on and off for nine years. He currentlymaintainsGuile, as a volunteer. Along withRichard Stallman, he was responsible for the release of version 19 ofGNU Emacs. Jim lives in Bloomington, Indiana.
Has been a user and advocate ofGNU/Linuxsystems since 1992. His current interest relating to GNU/Linux systems issoftware administration. He's author and maintainer ofGNU Swbis, an implementation of the POSIXpackaging standard with features and extensions to promote the use ofstrong authentication in the distribution and installation of free softwarepackages. Jim lives and works in Richmond, Virginia USA.
Has maintained the GNU Coreutils since 1991. After merging theportability/maintainability (lib/, m4/, automake) core of thetextutils, fileutils, and sh-utils into the coreutils, hesubsequently migrated most of that into a separate projectthat is now known as Gnulib.
Joel E. Denny
Co-maintainsGNU Bison.
Joel N. Weber II
Helps with system administration. He set up kerberos, he set up thesecondary mailserver for gnu.org, and he did most of the work of migrating from the old mailand file server to the new in the fall of 2000. He has also handled a lot of the DNSconfiguration, set up the Cisco router for 51 Franklin St and set up support for remoteconsole access and remote rebooting for machines in Boston. He has been a significantcontributor to the internal system administration documentation, and has also donenumerous more minor tasks. He hopes to find the time to someday write some music andsecurity software.
Is the author of forms-mode for GNU Emacs and of several other tools that arefreely available in the spirit of GNU.
John Catherino
Was the author and maintainer ofthe Cajo project. He was working with a worldwide community of freesoftware developers, to provide seamless transparent distributedcomputing for grid and cluster platform developers. John Catherino passedaway on April 16, 2016 in Anchorage.
John Collins jmc AT xislDOT com
Is the author and maintainer ofGNUspoolandGNUbatch. He lives in near London,England with Sue and a stroppy dog. Sometimes they contrive to let himplay Chess and Go — see him on ICC, KGS, IGS and DGS as toadwarble— seeKGS graph.
Has worked for the FSF since 2003, and is a GNU webmaster and ExecutiveDirector of the FSF.
John W. Eaton
Is the author and maintainer ofGNU Octave.
Jonas Öberg
Was a GNU webmaster and system administrator. He also advocates the GNUphilosophy in Sweden.
Is the author and maintainer ofGNU TeXmacs.Joris is a researcher in mathematics and computer science at the french CNRSinstitute. Besides GNU TeXmacs, Joris likes computer algebra and guitar playing.
Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz (aka jao)<jao@gnu.org>
Is a physicist and author of theGNU MDKpackage, an emulator of Donald Knuth's MIX mythical computer.
Jose E. Marchesi is a long-term GNU activist. In 1999, hefoundedGNU Spain, and he later assisted in the creation ofGNU ItalyandGNUMexico. His experience in GNU software maintainershipcoversGNU GV(up to2007),GNUGhostscript(up to 2006),GNUFerretandGNU PDF. He alsoperforms what he calls "random works" in the GNU Project, such aswriting internal code and editing Web pages as needed. He develop hisprofessional work in the Space sector, writing software for theEuropean Space Agency.
Jose M. Moya
Is currently working on theGNU Hurd.
Is theGNUticiaschief editor, an official speaker for GNU Spain, and helpedorganize the first GNU Hackers Meeting. He's also aresearcher in Atmospheric Sciences.
Is a member of the core team of theUTUTO-e Project,co-founder ofSOLAR(Software Libre ARgentina), and founder of LUGCASARES (GNU/LinuxUser Group of Carlos Casares). Currently writing aproject about “The creation of a GNU/Linux Distribution”made from source. This distribution will be named forCarlos Casares, the city where he lives.
Jürgen Sauermann
Is an APL veteran since the end of the 1970s, and author and maintainerof GNU APL since 2013. He developed huge mainframe-sized parallel APLcomputers in the 1980s, but is now down to smaller embedded systems likeRaspberry, Atmel, and even FPGAs.
Justin Baugh
Was a systems administrator at the FSF from February 2005until April 2008.
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hasbeen involved with GNU since rms visited his home in 1986.
Karl Heuer
Once worked for the FSF, but has nothing else to say about himself.
Kathryn Ann Hargreaves
Made the original regex code POSIX compliant and updated the manual.Co-authoredTeX for the Impatientand the initial phases oftheGNU font utilities.
Kresten Krab Thorup
Wrote the runtime system for GNU Objective-C and the principal and initial author ofthe AUC TeX package for emacs, whichhe maintained until 1993.
Is the maintainer ofDotGNU.
Converted GNU Emacs CC mode documentation to Texinfo format, which is now includedwith the Emacs distribution.
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Is the author and maintainer ofhttptunnel,and isporting GCC to PDP-10 and TOPS-20.
Is the maintainer ofGnus, the Emacsnewsreader. Lars lives in Oslo, Norway.
Laurence Finston
Is the author and maintainer of3DLDF, a package forthree-dimensional drawing with MetaPost output.
Is co-author for the GnuSpeech text-speech-system based on an articulatorytube-model synthesiser, and a speech-event form of parameter generation. Hisinterests include digital audio signal processing and physical-modelling soundsynthesis.
Les Kopari
Has prepared some web pages, and wrote the awk script that produces the htmlfor our Program-Package Cross Reference.
Lezz Giles
Is the author and maintainer ofGNU Trueprint.
Lisa M. Opus Goldstein
Joined the FSF as a volunteer in February 1986, half a year after the FSFwas founded, and was our second full-time employee. She stayed for eightyears until departing to see the world and continue her education, returningin May of 2001 to be our new Business Manager until September 2004.
Is the author and maintainer ofGNU mifluz. Hecreated and is a maintainer ofSavannah, thehosting facility for the GNU project. He is a founding member ofFSF EuropeandFSFE France.
Is the author ofGNUSource-highlight: a collection of programs that given a source file producesa document with syntax highlighting (including java2html and cpp2html). He isalso a developer and the maintainer ofgengetopt.
Is the principal author ofGNUGhostscript, which he continues to maintain and enhance.
Has been a user ofGNU/Linuxsystems and a proud free software advocate since 1995. His currentmain 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.
Luis Falcon is the author and maintainer ofGNU Health, the Free Health and HospitalInformation System. Luis is the president ofGNU Solidario, anNGOthatdelivers health and education with Free Software to the underprivileged.
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Marcos Serrou do Amaral
Is maintainer of GNU UnRTF.
Marc Tardif <mtardif@interunion.ca>
Is the author and maintainer ofGNU Bool, autility for finding files that match a boolean expression.
Marek Aaron Sapota
Is maintainer ofGNU WebSocket4Jand a GNUWebmaster.
Mark Adler
Is a co-author on gzip and wrote the decompression part.
Co-maintainsGNU Guileand contributes toGNU Guix.
Markus Steinborn
Is the maintainer ofGNU gv.
Martin Schanzenbach
Is a co-maintainer ofGNUnet.
Masayuki Hatta
Is currently maintaining GNU a2ps and Japanese translation of GNU Web pages and was chiefGNU translation coordinator, who administersweb translation effortsinto other languages apart from English, after Luis M. Arteaga.
Mats Lidell
Maintainer of GNU Hyperbole.
Matt Lee is an artist,comedywriter/producer/directorandmusicianliving in Boston. Inprevious versions he was a GNU Webmaster (2003-2008),theChief Webmaster of the GNUproject (2005-2008), a consultant to the FSF (2007/2008) andfinally the FSF's Campaigns Manager (2008-2012). He organized theLibrePlanet conference from 2009 until 2012. He started theGNU FM(with help from Mike Sheldon andClint Adams) andGNU social(with lotsof help from Evan Prodromou and Mikael Nordfeldth) projects. After the FSF, Matt ran the technology team over atCreative Commonsand was a free software developer atGitLab, Inc.
In 2008, Matt wrote and produced the movieHappyBirthday to GNUwith Stephen Fry for the 25th anniversary of theGNU Project, designed the cover for theGNU Emacs manual.
In 2017, Matt released thefirst feature length live action movie, made entirely with free software. He is actively working on sequel movies, television writing and theIndieWeb.
Matt Tytel is the author and maintainer of cursynth, a terminal musicsynthesizer.
Author of guile-dbi (and postgres, mysql db driver),contributor to GNU/Hurd and other various contributions.
Maxim Cournoyer
Is one of the co-maintainers and developers ofGNU Guix, GNU’s functional package manager.
Melissa Weisshaus
Was with the GNU Project on and off (mostly on)for some years after 1991. She edited manyGNU's Bulletinsanddid varying amounts of work on most of the FSF'sother publications.
Is currently working onGNU diction.
MaintainsGNU WgetandGNU Teseq, and contributes toGNU Screen. Also chips in for org adminduties to represent the FSF/GNU Project in Google's annualSummer of Codeprogram.
Has been involved with Savannah administration since 2004, and ispresently the chief Savannah maintainer. He is also the maintainer oftheGNU packagingproject.
Michael Opdenacker
Is the newGNU Typistmaintainer and translator to French of GNU web pages.
Is one of the maintainers forGuileand hasported and worked on development ofGOOPS,Guile's object system. He is currently working on his PhD inGraybielLab, see the Wayback Machine (archived June 05, 1997), at theDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,MITand is a graduate student inSANS(Studies of Artificial NeuralSystems) atKTH(Royal Institute ofTechnology), Stockholm.
Free software hacker and activist with a focus on privacy and security;GNU maintainer,evaluator, andvolunteer; author ofGNU ease.js.GPG Fingerprint:2217 5B02 E626 BC98 D7C0 C2E5 F22B B815 8EE3 0EAB
Mike Vanier
A graduate student in Computation and Neural Systems atthe California Institute of Technology (Caltech) hastaken over maintaining GNU Shogi and xshogi.
Miquel Puigpelat
Is a Catalan Translation Team Coordinator and a memberof gnu.org. He also maintains a personal siteaboutfreesoftwareand related subjects in Catalan.
The author and maintainer ofFontopiaandGnuDOSpackages.
Mu Lei known as NalaGinrut <mulei AT gnu.org>
The maintainer ofGNU ArtanisandGNU Xmlat, NalaGinrut contributestoGNU Guile. Also advocates the GNUphilosophy in China to young people.
Is the maintainer ofGNULeg(Libraries and Engines for Games). Currentlypursuing a doctoral degree and brainstorming prospectivefree software projects.
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Nagarjuna G
Is the author and project coordinator ofGNOWSYSand Chairperson ofFSF India. He is a philosopher ofscience and educationist working in thegnowledge.orglab at Mumbai inIndia atHomi Bhabha Centre forScience Education, working in the area of structure and dynamics ofknowledge. He gives speeches introducing the philosophy of freesoftware, free knowledge and free society. He is also a projectcoordinator and lead developer of an independent free software projectSELF-Platform.
Nathan Nichols <nathannichols454@gmail.com>
Is a maintainer/author ofGNU LibreJS,a JavaScript browser add-on that accepts/denies JavaScript from websitesbased on license.
Nazim Djafar
Is the maintainer of thejwoispackage.Nazim has worked as a developer andsystem administrator and is a GNU/Linux user since 2000. He is a free softwareactivist and has given speeches on free software at the USTHB GNU/Linux installparty in 2010 and 2011 and at the Algeria 2.0 events in 2012.
Is the author of theGnuTLSlibrary.
Is a former system administrator and release coordinatorfor the FSF. He still volunteers as time permits,maintaining a few Lisp programs forGNU Emacsandworking with others to maintain various GNU packages.
Nils Gey
Developer and public relations of GNU Denemo
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Is the author and maintainer ofGNUParallel. He is actively promoting free software in Denmark.
He was one of the authors of the GNUstep Database Library, and worked onvariousGNUsteppackages (the GNUstep-make, GNUstep-GUI and GNUstep-Xlibraries). Between 1998 and 2003 he was the maintainer of the Objective-Cfrontend and runtime library in GCC.
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Was converted from the Windows world to theGNU/Linuxworld after he took over maintaining and developingGNUSmalltalk. He develops free software in time leftfree from studying and advocating the benefits of freesoftware to his the-source-is-mine friends.
Paul Eggert
Paul Eggert has contributed to many GNU packages,including Emacs, GCC, Automake, Bash, CVS, Ghostscript,Grep, Groff, Gzip, and Make. Currently he maintains orco-maintains Diffutils, Patch, RCS, Tar, Gzip, and the tzdatabase, and also contributes to Autoconf, Bison,Coreutils, the GNU C library, and Gnulib. He teaches inthe UCLA Computer Science Department.
Took over maintenance of GNU make from Roland McGrath. Along-time beta tester for GNU Emacs and author ofsnmp-mode.el and various other ELisp tidbits.User/tester of various GNU packages for over 10 years!
Is the maintainer ofGNUTypist. He also works on several other non-GNU freesoftware projects which can be found at his web site.
Is a co-maintainer of GNU coreutils. He also works onseveral other non-GNU free software projects which can befound at his web site.
Peter Gerwinski
Maintains theGNU PascalCompiler(GPC).
Peter Miller
Has contributed to theGNU Gettextproject, and also produce a range of GPLed software. Hehas over 20 years experience in software engineeringincluding graphics, languages and compiler, networkingand security, web tools, software process tools, andsystem administration and sysadmin tools.
An applied mathematician by training, he now works onbiological effects of electromagnetic fields. He ismaintainer for the debuggerDDD.
Is one of the maintainers of the C++ packageGNU Gamafor the adjustment of geodetic networks.
Phillip Rulon
Was the FSF sysadmin for a few years. Does physics in his spare time.
Phil Maker
Is the author of theGNU Nanalibrary andis also one of the founders of Quoll Systems.
Phil Nelson
Has worked on several GNU programs over the past fewyears. He wrote the initial version of GNU cpio. Healso wrote GNU dbm and GNU bc. He is the maintainer ofGNU bc.
Prof. Masayuki Ida
Was our Vice President for Japan. He organized Japaneseevents and worked with GNU's friends in Japan.
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RG is a Free Software Hacktivist. He is a contributor toGNUGuix. His vision is to make Guix System anubiquitous operating system across all public-sectors.
Is the maintainer, and one of the authors, ofGNU Crypto.
Rajesh Vaidheeswarran
Is the maintainer of cons, authorand maintainer of whitespace.el (ships with GNU Emacs) and a few otheremacs-lisp libraries. He is also one of the GNU webmasters and sysadmins.
Ralf S. Engelschall
Contributes to the free software community since manyyears. His most popular contributions areWML,ePerl,iSelect,MM, andNPS. Heis also a core team member of the Apache Group and hascontributed some popular things to the Apache community,includingmod_rewrite,mod_ssl, theDSOfacility, the Apache Autoconf-style Interface(APACI), etc. He's also one of the founders of theOpenSSLproject.Finally to the GNU Project he has contributedshtool,andPth.
Is a volunteer programmer at SimpleMachines, Italy and is currentlyhacking on a port of PicoLisp for the Mizar32 computer. He does mostof his work with GNU Emacs but he alsoonce wrote a patch to get a free (as in freedom) vi clone to run on amicrocontroller. He is a maintainer of and a contributortoGNU Gengen.
Ramprasad B<ramprasad at gnu period org>
Is theGNU Emacs FAQ for MSWindowsmaintainer recruited byRichard M. Stallman, was aGNU Webmaster, and also works for otherGNU projects, and is anorganiser/participant of various free software events. He is from Bangalore,India.
Reinhard Müller
Is the current maintainer ofGNU Enterprise.
Remco Bras
Is the maintainer ofGNURPGE, a package for building graphical role playinggames.
Reuben maintainsGNU Zileandcontributes to much other free software, within and outside GNU. Heearns his living as a classical baritone.
Is one of the co-maintainers and developers ofGNU Guix, GNU’s functional package manager.Ricardo is also the primary author and maintainer ofGuile-Debbugs,a Guile library to communicate with a Debbugs SOAP service.
Richard Shann
Is the maintainer and main developer of GNU Denemo
Founded the GNU Project in 1984. He is the principal orinitial author ofGNU Emacs, theGNU C Compiler, the GNUDebugger GDB and parts of other packages. He foundedtheFree SoftwareFoundation (FSF)in October 1985, and served as its president until September 2019.
Stallman has never had a Facebook account. He has a twitter account"rmspostcomments" for use with other sites, but has no other Twitteraccount. Aside from that, any account on these sites claiming to behis is fake.
Robert J. Chassell
Was one of the founders of the Free Software Foundation,and wrote the Introduction to Emacs Lisp Programming.
Is the primary author of theGNU plotting utilities,and the designer of thelibxmiscan-conversion library. He professes mathematics at theUniversity of Arizona.
Rob Savoye
Is the author of DejaGnu, the GNU regression testingframework, and libgloss, a BSP library for the GNU toolsfor embedded systems.
Roel Janssen
Is the author of GNU InklingReader and GNU GWL, and a contributor to GNUGuix.
Roland McGrath
Worked on the GNU Project from 1987 to 1996. He is theprincipal author of the GNUC Library, co-authorof theGNU Hurd,co-author of GNU Make, and a major contributor to GNUAutoconf. He has also hacked on many other GNU programsover the years.
Roland Stigge
Is the maintainer ofGNU GTick.
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Is the lead developer and co-maintainer ofGNU Screen, a full-screenterminal window manager. He is also a lead developer ofPidgin, a multi-protocol instant messagingprogram. He is aBangladeshiliving in Ottawa, Canada.
Sam Steingold
Is the co-maintainer ofGNU CLISP—anANSI Common Lisp implementation. He also contributes toGNU Emacs.
Sandra Loosemore
Has been involved with the GNU project since 1991, when RMS hired her towrite theGNU CLibrary Reference Manualas an FSF employee. Nowadays she is amaintainer forGCCandBinutils, and an occasional contributor toGDB.
Sebastian Wieseler
He started idle-ing on #savannah July 17, 2004 and after finishing hisschool years he was an active member for some time after May 24, 2005.
Is the author and maintainer ofGNU Radius.He is also a developer and co-maintainer of several other GNU projects, among themMailutilsandTar.
Is the author ofGNU GLOBALsource codetag system that works the same way across diverse environments.
Lives in Stockholm, Sweden, and is the main author of GNU Libidn, GNUSASL, GNU Shishi, GNU GSS and maintainer of GnuTLS and GNU Libtasn1. Heregularly contribute to many other GNU and non-GNU free softwareprojects through his consulting company, does standardization work inthe IETF and has spoken at several conferences.
Stein Krogdahl
Author of Class Simulation included in the GNU Simula Compiler,Cim.
Stephen F. Booth
Is the author and maintainer ofGNU Cgicc.
Stephen Dawson is the package Maintainer ofGNU remotecontroland thecoordinator of the GNU remotecontrol Team. He is an InformationTechnology Management Professional.
Maintained theNTEmacsFAQtill 2002, and advocates the use of GNU softwareon the Windows platform.
Is the author ofElectric, theGNU CAD system for IC and Schematic design, which hecontinues to maintain and enhance. He is also the singerinSevere Tire Damage,the first band to play live on the Internet.
Steve Oualline
Is a software engineer working in SouthernCalifornia. He contributed the proto program to the GNUProject.
Steve White
Is the maintainer of and a contributor toGNU FreeFont.
Susan Bassein
Is the initial author and the maintainer of theDapstatistics andgraphics package.
Sverre Hvammen Johansen
Author and maintainer of the GNU Simula Compiler,Cim.
He started working on Savannah in the post-compromisecontext, since 2004-02-07, so he's had the time to workon about every aspect of the service. Besides that he isthe author and maintainer of GNU FreeDink.
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Terje Mjøs
Author of the GNU Simula Compiler,Cim.
Was a hacker, artist, writer, and long-time maintainer andcontributor to many GNU programs as well as other free softwarepackages. He was GNU maintainer ofrcs,guile-sdl,alive, andsuperoptpackages, and worked onGNU Goas well.
Thien-Thi especially loved GNU Emacs, GNU Taler, and GNU Go: he wasthe author and maintainer of the xpm, gnugo, ascii-art-to-unicode, andhideshow GNU Emacs packages and made substantial contributions to manyothers such as vc, as well as to GNU Taler and its documentation.
Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Is the principal architect of theGNU Hurd, which is thekernel for the GNU system. He previously maintained GNUtar, and even wrote a BASIC interpreter. He has done manyother things too, some of them having nothing to do withcomputers.
Thomas was renamed from Michael Bushnellin 1996.
Is the maintainer ofGNUEnscript.
Tom Cato Amundsen <tca@gnu.org>
Is the author ofGNU Solfege, aear training program for GNOME, and he has also done alittle work with fonts and mudela-book forGNU Lilypond.
Herecently got his Master of Education in Music, but spendsfar too much time programming Solfege and using freesoftware.
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Is the principal author ofGNU Privacy Guard,which he continues to develop and maintain.
Was the original author of GNU Queue.
William M. Perry
Is the author ofEmacs/W3,the Emacs web browser.
Is the author and maintainer ofGNU Anubis, and is also a developer ofGNU Mailutils.
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Yann Dirson
Is the current maintainer ofGNUShogi. He is a strong supporter and advocate of free software andis also a Debian Developer and occasionally participates invarious free software projects.
Yngve Svendsen
Is the maintainer of Gnatsweb, a web interface for the Gnats bugtracking system.
Yoni Rabkin (aka yrk)
Has been volunteering fortheGPL Compliance Labsince 2006 and is the maintainerofEmms.
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 calledLibreAustralia.
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has been a volunteer for the Free Software FoundationCompliance Lab since 2004 and is a member ofGPLv3 Committee D. He works for eZ systems AS astheir Managing Director for North America and for theMozilla Foundation as their Ombudslizard.
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