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<h2>About the Scribus Team (in order of joining)
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<p><b>Franz Schmid (fschmid):
</b> “Our Linus
…”. The original author and main coder; software developer for a manufacturing company.
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<p><b>Peter Linnell (mrdocs):
</b> Started with testing the 0.3.6 version, took over the documentation writing for 0.5.0; tester, RPM builder,
original web master for the Scribus website; pre-press/IT consultant for publishing and e-commerce companies.
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<p><b>Craig Bradney (MrB):
</b> Started with 1.1.1; coding, testing, setup of docs.scribus.net and bugs.scribus.net, manages the IRC channels on libera.chat; IT manager for a global e-commerce company.
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<p><b>Petr Van
ěk:
</b> Started with 1.1.4; plug-in specialist, has written several Scribus plug-ins and the how-to for Scribus plug-in writing; software engineer.
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<p><b>Riku Leino (Tsoots):
</b> Started with 1.1.5; wrote the Document Template plug-in and the OpenOffice.org/HTML importers for 1.2.2; IT manager for a large non-profit organization in Finland.
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<p><b>Andreas Vox
– pronounced [fox]
– (avox):
</b> Started with 1.3.0; developed the original Mac
OS
X native port, font and PostScript specialist, hates C++ and likes good layout; software developer.
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<p><b>Jean Ghali (jghali):
</b> Handles the Windows native port and much of the color management coding, gifted bughunter; pre-press and software engineer.
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<p><b>Oleksandr Moskalenko (malex):
</b> Maintainer of the Scribus Debian packages, helps with internationalization, translation, maintainer of the Scribus website, GSoC representative; molecular biologist.
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<p><b>Pierre Marchand (pierremarc);
</b> Fonts, canvas, text layout and shaping. Developer of FontMatrix, software developer for a publishing company.
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<p><b>Christoph Sch
äfer (christoph_s):
</b> Bug reporter and tester for bleeding edge Scribus, Wiki editor and doc translator/proofreader, one of the main authors of the Official Manual and the Scribus Online Help.
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<p><b>Hermann Kraus (Herm):
</b> Wrote the Render Frame plug-in for 1.4, GraphicsMagick and UniConvertor integration in 1.5.
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<p><b>Jain Basil Aliyas (jainbasil)
</b>: Wrote the XTG and IDML import filters and works on the next generation of the Scribus Scripter.
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<p><b>Paul Smedley (smedles):
</b> Maintainer of the OS/2 port.
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<h2>The Supporting Cast and Former Developers (in no particular order):
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<p><b>Christian Hitz
</b>: Updated the Barcode Writer and brought QR codes to Scribus.
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<p><b>Giovanni Mugnai
</b>: Haiku port of Scribus and Ghostscript.
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<p><b>Paul F. Johnson (Nodoid):
</b> Started with sending patches for 0.8, did code review and code optimizing, wrote the
“Coding Standards
” document.
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<p><b>Steve Callcott (sjc):
</b> Wrote the Python plug-in
“Font Sampler
”, which showed the real power of the Python Scripter in Scribus; works on systems control and consumer electronics, custom software and support.
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<p><b>Alessandro Rimoldi:
</b> Added fixes for the Scripter and code clean-ups, GSoC mentor.
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<p><b>Jean-Jacques Sarton:
</b> Added some key patches for improving image handling and other improvements. Added the launcher for external image editors to Scribus.
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<p><b>Alistair Robinson:
</b> Added some important fixes for font handling in early Scribus versions. Also wrote the clever hack for GIMP to create CMYK TIFFs.
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<p><b>Maciej Hanski:
</b> Polish translator and one of the primary contributors to the Scribus Wiki.
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<p><b>Yves Ceccone:
</b> Original French translator, wrote many of the Python sample scripts included with Scribus, maintained a large number of docs for Scribus in French.
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<p><b>Craig Ringer:
</b> Worked on the scripter, build system and tested early Windows and Mac
OS
X ports. Contributed fixes for Python and other enhancements; IT/DTP administrator for a newspaper.
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<p><b>Martin Costabel:
</b> Maintains the Scribus port and support libraries for Fink, allowing Scribus to run under X11 on Mac
OS
X.
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<p><b>Niyam Bhushan:
</b> Contributed a terrific tutorial on Scribus.
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<p><b>Marti Maria:
</b> Answered tons of our questions on color management and provided littleCMS to the the Open Source world.
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<p><b>Johannes R
üschel:
</b> Excellent bug finder, former German translator.
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<p><b>Alexandre Prokoudine:
</b> Russian Translator, has helped a bunch with internationalization issues, as well as designing UI improvements; professional technical writer.
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<p><b>Lukasz Jernas (DeeJay1):
</b> PLD Linux package maintainer.
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<p><b>Howard White:
</b> Testing and testing and more testing; retired pre-press engineer.
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<p><b>Cedric Gemy:
</b> UI testing and feedback, GSoC mentor; graphics professor and author of books on Open Source graphics software.
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<p><b>Gregory Pittman:
</b> One of the primary contributors to the Scribus wiki and the documentation, one of the main authors of the Official Manual and the Scribus Online Help; author of several useful Scribus scripts; neurologist.
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<p><b>Volker Ribbert:
</b> Started with the German translation of the docs.
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<p><b>Louis Desjardins:
</b> LGM organizer, testing, feedback. Translator of the original documentation to French.
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<p><b>Frederic Dubuy:
</b> Translator of the original documentation to French.
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<p><b>François Lanct
ôt:
</b> Translator of the original documentation to French.
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<p><b>Alessandro Levati
</b> Translator of the original documentation to Italian.
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<p><b>Eirik
Øverby:
</b> Continues to maintain our servers.
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<p><b>Gora Mohanty:
</b> Wrote the aspell spellcheck plug-in.
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<p><b>Elvis Stansvik:
</b> Wrote the
“Search
” feature for the Document Outline and implemented tables in 1.5svn.
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<p><b>Tomas Mecir:
</b> Orphans and widows control implementation and other improvements in 1.5svn.
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<p><b>Michael Doubez
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<p><b>Cezary Grabski:
</b> Lots of fixes and improvements to the text system, as well as other useful enhancements.
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<p><b>Marcus Holland-Moritz:
</b> Performance improvements for documents with large images.
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<p><b>Pierrick Brunet (Chelen):
</b> Countless usability improvements. Completion of the Undo system. Student of computer science.
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<p><b>Christian T
öpp
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<p><b>Andy Fitzsimmon:
</b> Creator of the Scribus splashscreen.
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<p><b>Andreas Nilsson:
</b> Tango Project icons.
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<p><b>Jakub Steiner:
</b> Tango Project icons.
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<p><b>Antoine Cailliau:
</b> Tango Project icons.
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