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==Overall guidance==
==Overall guidance==


[http://dougiamas.com/ Martin Dougiamas] is the founder, lead developer, and project manager for the whole Moodle project. Since 2005 there is a [http://moodle.com/hq/ team of people] employed over at [http://moodle.com/ Moodle HQ] helping him keep on top of things (or at least within sight of the top!).
[http://dougiamas.com/ Martin Dougiamas] is the founder, lead developer, and project manager for the whole Moodle project. Since 2005 there is a [http://moodle.com/hq/ team of people] employed over at [http://moodle.com/ 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 [[License|Copyright © 1999 onwards, Martin Dougiamas under the GNU GPL]].
The Moodle software package is [[License|Copyright © 1999 onwards, Martin Dougiamas under the GNU GPL]].

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Overall guidance

Martin Dougiamas is the founder, lead developer, and project 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 Positions

  • Moodle Knight - Eloy Lafuente
  • Translation Coordinator - Koen Roggemans
  • Security Officer - Petr Škoda (skodak)
  • Documentation Steward - Helen
  • Themes Manager - Urs Hunkler
  • Stable Release Manager - Martin Langhoff

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

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 make your suggestions on the discussion tab for this page.

Thanks also to everyone of you who have

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 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.

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 AT natsoft DOT com DOT my)

License: Dual LGPL and BSD-style

URL: http://adodb.sourceforge.net


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


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


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 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


Spreadsheet::WriteExcel - lib/excel

A library for generating Excel Spreadsheets.

Version: 2002-11-28

Copyright © 2002 Xavier Noguer (xnoguer AT rezebra DOT 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 AT greatbridge DOT com)

Documentation writers

Documentation writing is coordinated by Helen. We would like to thank the many people who have contributed their work to create various parts of Moodle documentation, among others: Przemyslaw Stencel, Matt Riordan, Bryan Williams, Ray Lawrence, Jason Cole, Darren Smith, Sylvia Maciaszczyk and Rafal Morusiewicz.