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GNU Mailman Acknowledgments
===========================

Copyright (C) 1998-2017 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.


Governance
==========

GNU Mailman was invented by John Viega.  Barry Warsaw is the current project
leader.  Aurélien Bompard leads HyperKitty and bundler development.  Florian
Fuchs leads Postorius development.  Development of mailman.client is a group
effort.

All project decisions are made by consensus via the Mailman Cabal, er,
Steering Committee which can be contacted directly via mailman-cabal@python.org


Core Developers
===============

The following folks are or have been core developers of Mailman (in
alphabetical order):

* Abhilash Raj, Mailman's Youngest Core Dev
* Aurélien Bompard, Pizzaman
* Barry Warsaw, Mailman's yappy guard dog
* Florian Fuchs
* Harald Meland, Norse Mailman
* John Viega, Mailman's inventor
* Ken Manheimer, Mailman's savior
* Mark Sapiro, Mailman's compulsive responder
* Scott Cotton, Cookie-Monster
* Stephen J. Turnbull, Standards Otaku
* Terri Oda
* Thomas Wouters, Mailman's Dutch treat
* Tokio Kikuchi (RIP), Mailman's weatherman


Copyright Assignees
===================

Here is the list of other contributors who have donated large bits of
code, and have assigned copyright for contributions to the FSF:

* Andreas Schosser
* Andrija Arsic
* Ben Gertzfield
* Cedric Knight
* Claudia Schmidt
* Ethan Mindlace Fremen
* Jimmy Bergman
* Joe Dugan
* Juan Carlos Rey Anaya
* Les Niles
* Mads Kiilerich
* Norbert Bollow
* Patrick Ben Koetter
* Reed O'Brien
* Richard Barrett
* Richard Wackerbarth
* Simon Hanna
* Simone Piunno
* Stephan Berndts
* Stephen Goss
* The Dragon De Monsyne
* Victoriano Giralt


Special Thanks
==============

Very special thanks to Andrija Arsic for his winning GNU Mailman logos.

Thanks also go to the following people for their important contributions in
other aspects of the Mailman project:

* Brad Knowles
* Clytie Siddall
* JC Dill

Thanks also to Dragon for his original Mailman logo contribution, and to Terri
Oda for the neat shortcut icon and the member documentation.

Control.com sponsored development of several Mailman 2.1 features, including
topics filters, external membership sources, and initial virtual mailing list
support.  My thanks especially to Dan Pierson and Ken Crater from Control.com.

Here is the list of other people who have contributed useful ideas,
suggestions, bug fixes, testing, etc., or who have been very helpful in
answering questions on mailman-users.  Please let me know if you have been
left off the list!

* "office"
* Ademar de Souza Reis, Jr.
* Alessio Bragadini
* Alexander Sulfrian
* Andrew Kuchling
* Andrew Martynov
* Anti Veeranna
* Anton Antonov
* Antonis Limperis
* Ashley M. Kirchner
* Balazs Nagy
* Bartosz Sawicki
* Ben Burnett
* Bernhard Reiter
* Bernhard Schmidt
* Bert Hubert
* Bill Wagner
* Blair Zajac
* Bob Fleck
* Bob Puff
* Bojan
* Cabel Sasser
* Carson Gaspar
* Chris Kolar
* Chris Pepper
* Chris Ryan
* Chris Snell
* Christian F Buser
* Christian Reis
* Christopher P. Lindsey
* Chuq Von Rospach
* Claudio Cattazzo
* Dai Xiaoguang
* Dale Newfield
* Dale Stimson
* Dan Mick
* Dan Ohnesorg
* Dan Wilder
* Daniel Buchmann
* Daniel Zeiss
* Danil Smirnov
* Danny Terweij
* Dario Lopez-Kästen
* Darrell Fuhriman
* David Abrahams
* David B. O'Donnell
* David Blomquist
* David Champion
* David Gibbs
* David Habben
* David Martínez Moreno
* David Soto
* David T-G
* Diego Francisco de Gastal Morales
* Dirk Mueller
* Dmitri I GOULIAEV
* Don Porter
* Donn Cave
* Ed Lau
* Eddie Kohler
* Egon Frerich
* Emerson Ribeiro de Mello
* Emilio Delgado
* Eric D. Christensen
* Erik Forsberg
* Erik Myllymaki
* Eva Österlind
* Fabian Wenk
* Federico Grau
* Fil
* Florian Weimer
* Francesco Potortì
* Francis Jorissen
* Franck Martin
* Fred Drake
* Gabriel P. Silva
* Garey Mills
* Gari Araolaza
* Geoff Mayes
* Gerald Oskoboiny
* Gergely Madarasz
* Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
* Grant Bowman
* Greg Lindahl
* Greg Stein
* Greg Ward
* Guido van Rossum
* Harald Koch
* Heiko Rommel
* Henny Huisman
* Hrvoje Niksic
* Hugo Koji Kobayashi
* Hye-Shik Chang
* Ikeda Soji
* J C Lawrence
* \J. D. Bronson
* James Henstridge
* Jan Veuger
* Jason R. Mastaler
* Javad Hoseini
* Javier Rial Rodríguez
* Jay Luker
* Jeff Berliner
* Jeff Hahn
* Jens Vagelpohl
* Jeremy Hylton
* Jim Popovitch
* Jim Tittsler
* Jimmy Bergman
* Joe Peterson
* John A. Martin
* John Carnes
* John Dennis
* John Read
* Jon Parise
* Jonas Muerer
* Jonas Smedegaard
* Joni Töyrylä
* Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida
* Julio A. Cartaya
* Kai Schaetzl
* Karl Chen
* Karoly Segesdi
* Kathleen Webb
* Kerem Erkan
* Kleber A. Benatti
* L'homme Moderne
* Les Niles
* Lindsay Haisley
* Lionel Elie Mamane
* Luca Maranzano
* Luigi Rosa
* Mahyar Moghimi
* Marc MERLIN
* Marcos Costales
* Mark Weaver
* Martijn Dekker
* Martin 'Joey' Schulze
* Martin Matuska
* Martin Mokrejs
* Martin Pool
* Martin von Loewis
* Matthias Andree
* Matthias Juchem
* Matthias Klose
* Maxim Dzumanenko
* Maxime Carron
* Maximillian Dornseif
* Mentor Cana
* Michael Fischer v. Mollard
* Michael Mclay
* Michael Meltzer
* Michael Ranner
* Michael Yount
* Mike Avery
* Mike Noyes
* Mikhail Sobolev
* Mikhail Zabaluev
* Miloslav Trmac
* Mirian Margiani
* Moreno Baricevic
* Moritz Naumann
* Ned Dawes
* Nicholas Russo
* Nigel Metheringham
* Nino Katic
* Noam Zeilberger
* Ousmane Wilane
* Owen Taylor
* Pascal GEORGE
* Pasi Sjöholm
* Patrick Finnerty
* Patrick Koetter
* Paul Cox
* Paul Hebble
* Peer Heinlein
* Pekka Haavisto
* Phil Pennock
* Piarres Beobide Egaña
* PieterB
* Ping Yeh
* Ralf Doeblitz
* Ralf Hildebrandt
* Ricardo Kustner
* Rob Ellis
* Robert Daeley
* Robert Garrigós
* Rodolfo Pilas
* Roger Tsang
* Ron Jarrell
* Rostyk Ivantsiv
* SATOH Fumiyasu
* SHIGENO Kazutaka
* Sean Reifschneider
* Seb Wills
* Skye Poier
* Stan Bubrouski
* Stefan Divjak
* Stefan Förster
* Stefan Plewako
* Stefaniu Criste
* Stephan Richter
* Stig Hackvan
* Stonewall Ballard
* Stuart Bishop
* Students of HIT <mailman-cn@mail.cs.hit.edu.cn>
* Sven Anderson
* Sylvain Langlade
* Szabolcs Szigeti
* Søren Bondrup
* Tamito KAJIYAMA
* Tanner Lovelace
* Ted Cabeen
* Terry Allen
* Terry Grace
* Terry Hardie
* Thijs Kinkhorst
* Tim Peters
* Timothy O'Malley
* Todd (Freedom Lover)
* Todd Vierling
* Todd Zullinger
* Tollef Fog Heen
* Tom G. Christensen
* Tomasz Chmielewski
* Toni Panadès
* Tristan Roddis
* Uros Kositer
* Vadim Getmanshchuk
* Valia V. Vaneeva
* Vizi Szilard
* Walter Hop
* William Ahern
* YASUDA Yukihiro
* Yasuhito FUTATSUKI

And everyone else on mailman-developers@python.org and
mailman-users@python.org!  Thank you, all.