Credits
Overall guidance
Martin Dougiamas is the founder and manager for the whole Moodle project. Since 2005 there is a team of people employed over at Moodle HQ in Perth, Australia helping him keep on top of things (or at least within sight of the top!).
The Moodle software package is Copyright © 1999 onwards, Martin Dougiamas under the GNU GPL.
Key Moodle Roles
- Lead Developer - Martin Dougiamas
- Knight in Shining Armor - Eloy Lafuente (stronk7)
- Translation Coordinator - Koen roggemans
- Security Officer - Petr Škoda (skodak)
- Documentation Steward - Helen Foster
- Themes Manager - Urs Hunkler
Main developers
Endless thanks from all of us goes to those who have contributed substantial and ongoing amounts of time to writing Moodle code and helping it grow. These are people who "get" what developing Moodle is all about and without whom Moodle would be a far lesser thing:
Eloy Lafuente (stronk7), Ray Kingdon, Williams Castillo, Petri Asikainen, Henrik Kaipe, Zbigniew Fiedorowicz, Gustav Delius, Thomas Robb, Janne Mikkonen, Jon Papaioannou (pj), Scott Elliott, Shane Elliott, Roberto Pinna (Bobo), Mike Churchward, Petr Škoda (skodak), Penny Leach, Martin Langhoff, Urs Hunkler, Michael Penney, Yu Zhang, Helen Foster
Translators
One of Moodle's strengths is the number of translations it has. Each translation takes many hours of work, as there are over 1000 phrases to translate (plus hundreds of help files!) Many of the languages have more than one contributor, sometimes working together and sometimes working serially.
Translation credits lists all these wonderful people.
The Translation Coordinator is Koen Roggemans translation AT moodle DOT org.
Themes
Themes give Moodle sites some colour and life. Here are all the themes carried as part of the Moodle 1.5 distribution, along with their authors:
- standard by Martin Dougiamas
- orangewhite and orangewhitepda by Urs Hunkler unodo
- oceanblue by Mitsuhiro Yoshida http://mitstek.com
- cornflower by Thomas Murdock http://sand-paper.org
- formal_white by Andrea Bicciolo
- metal by A. Chavan (updated for Moodle 1.5 by Martin Dougiamas)
- wood by Eloy Lafuente
Urs Hunkler is our Themes Manager, providing support and development.
Supporting Organisations=
- Open University, UK - contributed to Roles, accessibility in 1.8, Quiz (ongoing) and many smaller things.
- Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Italy (especially Daniele Cordella) - contributed to accessibility compliance to W3C guidelines and Italian law.
- Microsoft, US - contributed to development of XMLDB
- Google, US (Summer of Code) - contributed to development of Admin interface, AJAX editing and Database activity presets
- Open Polytechnic, NZ (esp Richard Wyles) - for contributions to Moodle Network, Stats, PostgreSQL support, and many other things
(this list is not complete yet)
Other contributors and developers
Many other people have contributed (and are still contributing) with constructive discussions, support, testing and various chunks of code and documentation. This list is long and always changing, but some names include (in the order they were added):
Peter C. Taylor, Art Lader, Matt Hope, Tom Murdock, Sébastien Namèche, James Miller, Dustin Rue, Holger Schadeck, Giovanni Tummarello, John Windmueller, Sean Keogh, Mitsuhiro Yoshida, Greg Barnett, Mark Kimes, Mary Hunter, Russell Jungwirth, Przemyslaw Stencel, John "Captain" Eyre, Paula Edmiston, Howard Miller, Claudio Tavares, P. Timothy Ervin, Bob Calder, Ursula Raab, David Delgado, Mad Alex, Gaëtan Frenoy, Bernard Boucher, Bryan Williams, Rob Butner, Koen Roggemans, David Scotson, Torsten Anderson, Eamon Costello, Hannes Gassert, Andrew Walker, Antonio Vicent, Ethem Evlice, Chardelle Busch, Miles Berry, Steve Hyndman, Julian Ridden, Ray Lawrence, Jeffery Watkins, Teemu Sumi, Tony Hursh, Andrea Bicciolo, Ralf Hilgenstock, Stuart Mealor, Dan Stowell, Iñaki Arenaza, Bill Burgos, Jonathon Moore, Daryl Hawes, Richard Wyles
Sorry if we've forgotten to include your name here - the Moodle community is large and active so this list is difficult to maintain! Please make your suggestions on the discussion tab for this page.
Thanks also to everyone of you who have
- donated via the Donations page,
- contributed to Tracker,
- participated in the Moodle Community, and
- used our commercial Moodle Partner services
Moodle libraries
Some of Moodle's libraries were written by other people, and are being redistributed as part of Moodle under their respective open source licenses that thankfully allow us to do so. My thanks go out to the authors of all these excellent products - without them Moodle would be missing important functionality. Copyright information for each package is included below:
ADOdb - lib/adodb
Database abstraction library for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Oracle, Interbase, Foxpro, Access, ADO, Sybase, DB2 and ODBC.
Version: 4.93
Copyright © 2000-2006 John Lim (jlim AT natsoft DOT com DOT my)
License: Dual LGPL and BSD-style
URL: http://adodb.sourceforge.net
FPDF Class - lib/fpdf
Class to generate PDF files
Version: 1.53
Copyright Olivier PLATHEY
License: Freeware
Graph Class - lib/graphlib.php
Class to draw line, point, bar, and area graphs, including numeric x-axis and double y-axis.
Version: 1.6.3 (with modifications)
Copyright © 2000 Herman Veluwenkamp (hermanV AT mindless DOT com)
License: LGPL
html2text - lib/html2text.php
PHP script to convert HTML into an approximate text equivalent
Version: 1.0 (with modifications)
Copyright © 2002 Mark Wilton-Jones
License: HowToCreate script license with written permission
URL: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/php/
htmlArea - lib/editor
Javascript/HTML script to put a GUI editor in textareas on Internet Explorer and Mozilla
Version: 3.0 beta (with modifications)
Copyright © 2002 interactivetools.com, inc.
License: htmlArea License (based on BSD license)
IP-Atlas - lib/ipatlas
PHP scripts to show the location of an IP address on a map.
Version: 1.0 (with modifications)
Copyright © 2002 Ivan Kozik
License: GNU GPL
URL: http://www.xpenguin.com/ip-atlas.php
Services_JSON - lib/json
Allows PHP->JS communication via JSON
Version: 1.3.1
Copyright © 2005 Michal Migurski
License: Modified BSD (GPL-compatible)
URL: http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=198
kses - lib/kses.php
HTML/XHTML filter that only allows some elements and attributes
Version: 0.2.2
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2005 Ulf Harnhammar
License: GNU GPL
URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kses
mimeTeX - filter/tex
Compiled C program to convert TeX into GIFs
Version: 1.4
Copyright © 2002-2004 John Forkosh Associates, Inc
License: GNU GPL
URL: http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html
URL: http://moodle.org/download/mimetex
mp3player - lib/mp3player
Flash movie to play streaming MP3s
Copyright © 2005 Andrew Walker
License: GNU GPL
overlibmws - lib/overlib.js
Javascript library to enable DHTML popups, floating windows, events etc
Version: July 2004
Copyright © 2002-2004 Foteos Macrides
Copyright © 1998-2004 Erik Bosrup
License: Artistic Open Source License
URL: http://www.macridesweb.com/oltest/
PclZip - lib/pclzip
Class to create, manage and unpack zip files.
Version: 2.4 RC1
Copyright © 2004 Vincent Blavet (vincent AT phpconcept DOT net)
License: GNU GPL
URL: http://www.phpconcept.net
PEAR OLE Classes - lib/pear
Class to write Excel files
Version: 0.5
Copyright © 2004 Xavier Noguer
License: PHP (plus special exemption for Moodle to make it compatible)
URL: http://pear.php.net/package/OLE
PEAR Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer - lib/pear
Class to write Excel files
Version: 0.9.0
Copyright © 2004 Xavier Noguer and Mika Tuupola
License: LGPL
URL: http://pear.php.net/package/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
PEAR HTML_Quickform - lib/pear
Class to write forms
Version: 3.2.6
Copyright © 2004 Bertrand Mansion, Adam Daniel, Alexey Borzov
License: PHP (plus special exemption for Moodle to make it compatible)
URL: http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_Quickform
PEAR HTML_Quickform_Renderer_Tableless - lib/pear
Class to render forms without tables
Version: 0.3.4
Copyright © 2005 Mark Wiesemann
License: PHP (plus special exemption for Moodle to make it compatible)
URL: http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_Quickform_Renderer_Tableless
PEAR HTML_QuickForm_DHTMLRulesTableless - lib/pear
Class to render validation notices with dhtml
Version: 0.1.2
Copyright © 2005 Alexey Borzov, Adam Daniel, Bertrand Mansion, Justin Patrin, Mark Wiesemann
License: PHP (plus special exemption for Moodle to make it compatible)
URL: http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_QuickForm_DHTMLRulesTableless
PEAR HTML_Common - lib/pear
Class with many common HTML functions (used by HTML Quickform)
Version: 0.3.4
Copyright © 2004 Adam Daniel, Bertrand Mansion, Klaus Guenther, Alexey Borzov
License: PHP (plus special exemption for Moodle to make it compatible)
URL: http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_Common
PHP mailer - lib/class.phpmailer.php
Class for sending email using either sendmail, PHP mail(), or SMTP. Methods are based upon the standard AspEmail(tm) classes.
Version 1.73
Copyright © 2003 Brent R. Matzelle (bmatzelle AT yahoo DOT com) License: LGPL
URL: http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net
PHP Markdown - lib/markdown.php
Functions to convert from the Markdown text format into clean XHTML.
Version: 1.0b9 (with modifications)
Copyright © 2003-2004 , John Gruber
Copyright © 2004 , Michel Fortin
License: LGPL
URL: http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/
Snoopy - lib/snoopy
A PHP net client
Version: 1.0
Copyright © 1999-2000 Monte Ohrt (monte AT ispi DOT net) License: GNU LGPL
URL: http://snoopy.sourceforge.com
SMTP class - lib/class.smtp.php
Class that can be used to connect and communicate with any SMTP server. It implements all the SMTP functions defined in RFC821 except TURN.
Version: 03/26/2001
Copyright © 2001 Chris Ryan (chris AT greatbridge DOT com)
Typo3 Character Set Class - lib/typo3
Class for conversion between charsets and multibyte-savy operations with strings.
CVS version: 1.54
Copyright © 2003-2005 Kasper Skaarhoj
Licencia: GNU GPL
URL: http://typo3.org/