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<!--<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" "docbookx.dtd">--><!-- $Id: credits.xml 17347 2012-10-18 16:55:35Z ixitar $ --><book><bookinfo><productname>Open Source Native XML Database</productname><title>Credits</title><date>November 2009</date><author><firstname>Wolfgang M.</firstname><surname>Meier</surname><affiliation><address format="linespecific"><email>wolfgang at exist-db.org</email></address></affiliation></author></bookinfo><chapter><title>Who we are</title><section><title>About Us</title><para>eXist-db was 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 very welcome to contribute to the future development of eXist-db. If you
                would like to get involved, the first step is to join the <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/p/exist/mailman/" condition="_blank">mailing list</ulink>. You may
                also have a look at the <ulink url="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 will get write access to the Subversion repository
                if your patches are ok.</para></section><section><title>Credits</title><para>The following people have contributed to eXist-db (by writing code or supplying
                patches) or are active committers (in strict alphabetical order). To see a live
                list, go to <ulink url="https://www.ohloh.net/p/exist/contributors">Ohloh</ulink>.</para><informaltable><colgroup><col/><col/><col/><col/></colgroup><thead><tr bgcolor="#0990EE" valign="top"><th>Contributor</th><th>SourceForge Alias</th><th>Date Joined</th><th>Contributions</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr bgcolor="#F6F6F6" valign="top"><td>Luigi Bai</td><td/><td/><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>patches</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Timo Boehme</td><td/><td/><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>patches</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Sebastian Bossung</td><td/><td/><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>schema service</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Pierrick Brihaye</td><td>brihaye</td><td>August 2005</td><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>developer</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Loren Cahlander</td><td>ixitar</td><td>March 2009</td><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>developer</para></listitem><listitem><para>Function Documents</para></listitem><listitem><para>Security</para></listitem><listitem><para>Documentation Editor</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Mark R. Diggory</td><td/><td/><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>tomcat realm</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>James R. Fuller</td><td/><td/><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>developer</para></listitem><listitem><para>XProc support</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>José María Fernández González</td><td/><td/><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>patches</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Mark Harrah</td><td>harrah</td><td>January 2006</td><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>XACML</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Piotr Kaminski</td><td/><td/><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>patches</para></listitem><listitem><para>fluent interfaces</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Stephan Körnig</td><td/><td/><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>hashtables</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Igor Abade V. Leite</td><td/><td/><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>patches</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Evgeny Gazdovsky</td><td>gev</td><td>September 2008</td><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>developer</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Chris Marasti-Georg</td><td/><td/><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>developer</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Dan McCreary</td><td/><td/><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>documentation</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Wolfgang Meier</td><td>wolfgang_m</td><td>January 2003</td><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>main developer</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Alex Milowski</td><td>alexmilowski</td><td>February 2006</td><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>patches</para></listitem><listitem><para>LDAP security manager</para></listitem><listitem><para>Atom interface</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Per Nyfelt</td><td/><td/><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>JBoss integration</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Leif-Jöran Olsson</td><td/><td/><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>developer</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Adam Retter</td><td/><td/><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>developer</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Dmitriy Shabanov</td><td>shabanovd</td><td>May 2009</td><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>developer</para></listitem><listitem><para>Security</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Andrzej Taramina</td><td/><td/><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>developer</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Giulio Valentino</td><td>gvalentino</td><td>September 2003</td><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>developer</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Jean-Marc Vanel</td><td>jmvanel</td><td>March 2003</td><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>developer</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Dannes Wessels</td><td>dizzzz</td><td>May 2005</td><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>developer</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Joe Wicentowski</td><td>joewiz</td><td>November 2009</td><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>developer</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Cherif Yaya</td><td/><td/><td><itemizedlist><listitem><para>XQJ implementation</para></listitem></itemizedlist></td></tr></tbody></informaltable><para>(probably, some names are missing here, please send a message to Wolfgang to
                complete this)</para></section></chapter></book>