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Overall guidance

Martin Dougiamas is the originator, lead developer, project manager, release manager and general teaboy for the whole Moodle project. Do you take sugar?

Main Developers

A special 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

Other Contributors

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.

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 email Martin and make your suggestions! :-)

Thanks also to everyone of you who have

donated via the Donations page,
contributed to the bug tracker, and
participated in the Moodle Community

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.

Maintaining a list of all these wonderful people is too difficult, so please look at the Language download page for names and details.

The Translation Coordinator is Koen Roggemans (translation@moodle.org).

Themes

Themes give Moodle sites some colour and life. Here are all the themes carried as part of the Moodle distribution, along with their authors:

standard and cordoroyblue, by Martin Dougiamas
oceanblue, by Mitsuhiro Yoshida, http://mitstek.com
brightretro, cornflower, by Thomas Murdock, http://sand-paper.org
garden, by Spiggy, http://phpgirl.com
formal_white, by Andrea Bicciolo

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: 4.50 Copyright © 2000-2004 John Lim (jlim@natsoft.com.my) License: Dual LGPL and BSD-style URL: http://adodb.sourceforge.net

Graph Class - lib/graphlib.php

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

kses - lib/kses.php

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

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

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 1.71,
   Copyright © 2003 Brent R. Matzelle <bmatzelle@yahoo.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@ispi.net>
   License: GNU LGPL
   URL: http://snoopy.sourceforge.com

Spreadsheet::WriteExcel - lib/excel

   A library for generating Excel Spreadsheets.

   Version: 2002-11-28
   Copyright © 2002  Xavier Noguer <xnoguer@rezebra.com>
   License: GNU LGPL
   URL: http://jeffn.users.phpclasses.org/browse.html/package/767.html

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@greatbridge.com>

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