Credits

Overall guidance

Martin Dougiamas is the originator, lead developer, project manager, and release manager for the whole Moodle project. Since 2005 there is a team of people employed over at Moodle HQ helping him keep on top of things (or at least within sight of the top!).

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 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

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

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)

License: LGPL

html2text - lib/html2text.php

PHP script to convert HTML into an approximate text equivalent

Version: 1.0 (with modifications)

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)

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)

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

License: GNU GPL

URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kses

mimeTeX - filter/tex

Compiled C program to convert TeX into GIFs

Version: 1.4

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

License: GNU GPL

overlibmws - lib/overlib.js

Javascript library to enable DHTML popups, floating windows, events etc

Version: July 2004

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

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

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)

License: LGPL

URL: http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/

Snoopy - lib/snoopy

A PHP net client

Version: 1.0

License: GNU LGPL

URL: http://snoopy.sourceforge.com

Spreadsheet::WriteExcel - lib/excel

A library for generating Excel Spreadsheets.

Version: 2002-11-28

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

Documentation writers

Documentation writing is coordinated by Helen Foster. 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.