GRASS GIS 6 List of Authors
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$Date: 2008-03-24 18:04:40 -0500 (Пн, 24 мар 2008) $


Many people have contributed to GRASS GIS. Without any one of them the
project would not exist in its current form.

The authors of the individual programs are listed at the end of their 
manual page in the GRASS users manuals or in the source code. However, 
numerous authors of bug fixes and enhancements as well as people who 
have been working on coordination, integration, translation, 
documentation and testing are not mentioned. Therefore, this 
page is an attempt to acknowledge those who contributed to GRASS 
development.

Please allow us to extend our most cordial thanks to all of you. If you 
contributed to GRASS at any point during its existence, please let us 
know your name and e-mail address so we can add your name.

Active parts of the program have authors dating back to GRASS's 
inception in 1982. Please check the GRASS 1.x - 5.0 credits list at:
 http://www.grass-gis.org/devel/grasscredits.html


GRASS 6.0 was made up of entirely new code for much of the vector and 
database management subsystems. The raster, display, and projection 
subsystems are largely directly inherited from GRASS 5.4 without change. 
The core GIS, GUI, and build subsystems are a hybrid of old and new code.

Thus we must also thank and credit the members of the 5.0 core
development team, listed below, as many are still active in the 
project and GRASS 6 owes much of itself to the generosity of 
their bright minds.


Email addresses below have been spam-proofed to protect the innocent;
add "@" and "." as needed.

A list of contributors with write access is available in
./contributors.csv

A list of contributors without write access is available in
./contributors_extra.csv

A list of translators is available in
./translators.csv


New contributions specific to GRASS 6.1 - 6.3:
-------------------------------------------------
(work in progress: please complete and correct, this list may be incomplete)

Additional authors:
NVIZ
 - ACS - Massimo Cuomo <m.cuomo at acsys.it>: New flythrough navigation

gis.m/tcltk module GUI:
 - Cedrik Shock <cedricpublic at shockfamily.net>

Source code Quality assessment system
 - SOCCER Labs at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
   http://web.soccerlab.polymtl.ca/grass-evolution/grass-browsers/grass-index-en.html
   http://www.grass-gis.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-qa

Bugtracker maintainer:
   Maciej "Maciek" Sieczka <werchowyna at epf.pl>

Power user tester:
   Maciej "Maciek" Sieczka <werchowyna at epf.pl>



GRASS 5.7/6.0: Primary authors of new source code
-------------------------------------------------

Institutions:
 ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy   Providing web structure and various mailing lists
 Intevation GmbH, Germany  Providing CVS and Request Tracker
 Baylor University, USA    Providing user mailing list 1998-5/2006

VECTOR
 - Radim Blazek <blazek itc it>: vector engine core developer
 - David D Gray: vector engine contributions
 - modules: see individual authors and ./contributors.csv
 
DBMI
 - based on original code from GRASS 5.0 (developer unknown, CERL?)
 - Radim Blazek <blazek itc it>: core developer of 5.7 enhancements
 - Alexander Shevlakov: drivers and sqlp contributions
 - modules: see individual authors and ./contributors.csv

DGLib: vector networking
 - Roberto Micarelli <mi ro iol it>: LIBDGL - graph library for vector
     network analysis

FORMS library
 - Radim Blazek <blazek itc it>: core developer 

RASTER
 - Modules: see 5.4 authors below + individual modules
 - Integration of raster modules: Markus Neteler <neteler itc it>
 - Large file support (LFS): Glynn Clements  <glynn gclements.plus.com>
 - modules: see individual authors and ./contributors.csv

3D RASTER
 - Grid3D library by CERL and GMSL/University of Illinois
 - Jaro Hofierka <hofierka geomodel sk>
 - Helena Mitasova <hmitaso unity ncsu edu>
 - Alfonso Vitti <alfonso vitti ing unitn it>: important bugfixes
 - Soeren Gebbert <soeren.gebbert gmx de>: important bugfixes
 - modules: see individual authors and ./contributors.csv

PROJ
 - Integrated by Paul Kelly <paul-grass stjohnspoint co uk>

NEW DOCUMENTATION:
 - existing documentation: see 5.4 authors below + individual modules
 - Markus Neteler <neteler itc it>
 - Otto Dassau <dassau gdf-hannover de>
 - M. Hamish Bowman <hamish.bowman otago ac nz>
 - Radim Blazek <blazek itc it>

WEB SITE
 - Markus Neteler <neteler itc it>: setup and maintenance since 1998,
     cron jobs for auto-update, PHP migration, mailing lists, etc
 - Scott Mitchell <smitch mac com>: contributions
 - M. Hamish Bowman <hamish.bowman otago ac nz>: contributions


GRASS 6.0 - 6.2 major project contributers
------------------------------------------

PROJECT INTEGRATION
 - Markus Neteler <neteler itc it>: GRASS project coordination
 - Radim Blazek <blazek itc it>: driving force for vector enhancements
 - M. Hamish Bowman <hamish.bowman otago ac nz>: General sanitation
 - Bernhard Reiter <bernhard intevation de>: Maintain CVS, Bug-tracker

BUILD SYSTEM
 - Eric Mitchell: core development
 - Paul Kelly <paul-grass stjohnspoint co uk>: Fine tuning
 - Glynn Clements <glynn gclements plus com>: Assistance and advice

DOCUMENTATION
 - New docs engine: Markus Neteler <neteler itc it>
 - Programming docs/doxygen: Markus Neteler <neteler itc it>, Paolo Armani

GUI
 - Radim Blazek <blazek itc it>: primary author of d.m and v.digit
 - Michael Barton <michael.barton asu edu>: tcltkgrass menu system 
   partial rewrite and integration into d.m
 - Multibyte FreeType Font Support: www.FOSS4G.org team

CODE PORTABILITY
 - Brad Douglas <rez at touchofmadness.com>: various libs

INTERNATIONALIZATION
 - Integration: Markus Neteler <neteler itc it>, based on www.FOSS4G.org initiative:
    (S. Masumoto, V. Raghavan, S. Nonogaki, M. Neteler, T. Nemoto, T. Mori, M. Niwa,
     A. Hagiwara, and N. Hattori)
 - Multi-byte text support: FOSS4G members, see http://www.foss4g.org
 - Translators: There are as many to thank as there are languages to speak
    - Arabic: Dr. Alaa Masoud
    - Chinese: Zhang Jun
    - Czech: Martin Landa, Jachym Cepicky, Michal Bil, Radim Blazek
    - German: Stephan Holl 
    - French: Emmanuel Saracco, Daniel Calvelo, Laurent Courty
    - Italian: Maurizio Napolitano, Luciano Montanaro, Lorenzo Moretti
    - Japanese: Susumu Nonogaki
    - Polish: Artur Niecior
    - Russian: Alexander Shevlakov
    - Slovenia: Miha Staut
    - Spanish: el bueno (manzano_jm), Luis Izquierdo, Daniel Calvelo
    - Turkish: Aras.Gor.O Yalcin Yilmaz
    - Vietnamese: Tran Van Anh, Bui Huu Manh (Mystus vittatus)

NVIZ
 - Radim Blazek <blazek itc it>: updated vector and 3D vector support
 - Bob Covill <bcovill tekmap ns ca>: Core enhancements
 - Helena Mitasova <hmitaso unity ncsu edu>: 3D volume support supervision
 - Jaro Hofierka <hofierka geomodel sk>: 3D volume support supervision
 - Tomas Paudits: 3D volume support implementation

SPECIAL THANKS:
 - Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam pobox com>: for writing and maintaining the
    essential GDAL and OGR libraries as well as PROJ4, GeoTIFF, etc etc.
    He plays a key role in (Free) GIS interoperability.


In addition, we must thank those that have packaged GRASS 6 into the
easy to install binary packages which are at the forefront of the users'
software experience.

Linux (generic): Markus Neteler <neteler itc it>
Linux (Debian):  DebianGIS Project <pkg-grass-devel lists.alioth.debian.org>
Linux (SuSE):    GDF Hannover bR, see http://www.gdf-hannover.de
Mac OS/X:        Lorenzo Moretti <lorenzo.moretti bologna enea it>
                 Jeshua Lacock <jeshua OpenOSX com>
MS-Windows/Cygwin:  Huidae Cho <grass4u gmail com>


GRASS GIS 5.4 Author List
-------------------------

Please check additionally the GRASS 1.x-5.0 credits list at:
 http://www.grass-gis.org/devel/grasscredits.html

While it is impossible for us to give credit to everyone (past 
and present) who has contributed to GRASS, the following is the 
incomplete official list for GRASS 5.0-5.4:

Institutions:
 ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy   Providing web structure and various mailing lists
 Intevation GmbH, Germany  Providing CVS and Request Tracker
 Baylor University, USA    Providing user mailing list 1998-5/2006


GRASS 5 Core Team (most have CVS write access):
 Michael Barton  <michael.barton asu edu>      (tcltkgrass menus)
 Roger Bivand    <Roger.Bivand nhh.no>         ("R" statistical language 
                                                support)
 Radim Blazek    <blazek itc.it>               (DBMS support, ps.map, d.dm)
 Hamish Bowman   <hamish.bowman otago.ac.nz>   (ps.map,display,rasters, ...)
 Huidae Cho      <grass4u gmail.com>           (FreeType,r.topmodel,r.topidx, ..)
 Glynn Clements  <glynn gclements.plus.com>    (Code portability, ...)
 Bob Covill      <bcovill tekmap.ns.ca>        (NVIZ export formats, 
                                                r.in|out.bin)
 Jaro Hofierka   <hofierka geomodel.sk>        (NVIZ port, grid3D and related)
 Paul Kelly      <paul-grass stjohnspoint.co.uk> (PROJ4, datum trafo, IRIX ...)
 Lubos Mitas     <lmitas ncsa.uiuc.edu>        (multivariate spline
                                                interpolation (RST) 
                                                and erosion modeling)
 Helena Mitasova <hmitaso unity.ncsu.edu>      (interpolation modules, NVIZ,
                                                G3D, erosion modelling)
 Eric G. Miller  <egm2 jps.net>                (sites format, new autoconf 
                                                system, bugfixes etc.)
 Roger S. Miller <rgrmill rt66.com>            (raster modules, r.drain etc.)
 Markus Neteler  <neteler itc.it>              (GRASS 5 coordination, this&that ...)
 Bernhard Reiter <bernhard intevation.de>      (License, CVS, Bugfixes, RT)
 Alexander Shevlakov <sixote yahoo.com>        (PostgreSQL/GRASS interface)
 Mike Thomas <miketh brisbane.paradigmgeo.com> (generic Windows driver)
 Jan-Oliver Wagner   <jan intevation.de>       (XML-support, 
                                                Module descriptions)
 Frank Warmerdam     <warmerdam pobox.com>     (GDAL, SHAPE implementation, 
                                                new GRASS I/O library)
 Michel Wurtz        <mw teledetection.fr>     (ESRI E00 support)


Former programmers (GRASS 5.0):
 Andrea Aime         <aaime comune.modena.it>    (raster/vector modules)
 Carl Anderson       <candrsn mindspring.com>    (XDRIVER support)
 Malcolm Blue        <mblue nb.sympatico.ca>     (Windows NT/Cygnus port)
 Jacques Bouchard    <bouchard onera.fr>         (tcltkgrass, bugfixes)
 David D. Gray       <ddgray armadce.demon.co.uk>(Vector, SQL support)
 Justin Hickey       <jhickey hpcc.nectec.or.th> (GRASS initialization, 
						  new env var handling, SGI)
 John Huddleston     <jhudd lamar.colostate.edu> (Windows NT/Cygnus port)
 Bill Hughes         <bhughes grasshoppernet.com> (64bit compliance)
 Andreas Lange       <Andreas.Lange Rhein-Main.de> (SGI/Irix compliance, 
						   Proj/Datum support)
 Brook Milligan      <brook trillium.NMSU.Edu>    (initial autoconf implementation)
 Phisan Santitamnont <fsvpss eng.chula.ac.th>     (initial Linux compilation
                                                   of 4.2.1, bugfixes)

Significant contributions (very incomplete, please add):
 Angus Carr      <apcarr flash.lakeheadu.ca> (ERDAS LAN)
 Eric Mitchell   <emitchell altaira com>     (new 5.1 Makefile system)
 Pierre de Mouveaux <pierre polaris-technologies.com>  (NVIZ, d.layers)
 Job Spijker     <spijker geo uu.nl>         (v.bubble)
 Laura Toma      <ltoma bowdoin edu>         (r.terraflow)
 Philip Warner   <pjw rhyme com.au>          (NVIZ code cleanup)
 David B. Satnik and Ali R. Vali             (i.fft)

Additional project contributions (very incomplete, please add):
 Florian Goessmann <florian wallweg39 de>
 Scott Mitchell    <smitch mac com>
 Martin Wegmann    <wegmann biozentrum uni-wuerzburg.de>

Former User support (GRASS 5.0):
 Edward Zarecky  <Edward_Zarecky baylor.edu> (user support)
 Lisa Zygo       <Lisa_Zygo baylor.edu>      (user support, GRASS manuals)

Former GRASS 4.2.1 development:
   University of Hannover/Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology
   Markus Neteler <neteler geog.uni-hannover.de> (GRASS 4.2.1 coordination)

Former GRASS 4.2.0 development:
   Center for Applied Geographic and Spatial Research
   Bruce Byars <Bruce_Byars baylor.edu> (GRASS 4.2.0 coordination)

Former GRASS 4 development (1984 to 1995):
   U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories  (CERL)
   Jim Westervelt, Michael Shapiro, Chris Rewerts, Robert Lozar, David Gerdes, ...
   See: http://www.grass-gis.org/devel/grasscredits.html

Former Institutions
 - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
   Helena Mitasova <hmitaso unity.ncsu.edu> (interpolation modules, NVIZ, G3D)
   William Brown   <brown gis.uiuc.edu>     (libraries, interpolation modules, 
					     NVIZ, G3D)

 - National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA
   Lubos Mitas (multivariate spline interpolation (RST) and erosion modeling)
 
 - High Performance Computing Center, Thailand
   National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
   Bangkok, Thailand

 - Baylor University: Hosting the user mailing list, 1998-5/2006


Contact:

 GRASS Development Team
 c/o M. Neteler
 Fondazione Mach - Centre for Alpine Ecology
 38100 Viote del Monte Bondone (Trento)
 Italy
 email: neteler AT cealp.it

Internet:  http://www.grass-gis.org/ (main site)
           http://grass.ibiblio.org/ (mirror)
           http://www.grass-gis.org/mirrors.php (list of mirrors)

with a worldwide distribution network.
