% when updating this list remember to update the website!

GDL have been developed by a team of volunteers led by {\bf Marc~Schellens} --
  the project's founder and maintainer.
As of 2011 the core team consists additionally of (in alphabetical order)
  Sylwester~Arabas, Alain~Coulais, Gilles Duvert and Jeol~Gales.

Among many good folks who provided patches and valuable feedback (in alphabetical order) there are:
M\'ed\'eric~Bocquien, %
Justin~Bronn, %
Pierre~Chanial, %
Pedro~Corona~Romero, % dialog_pickfile
Christoph~Fuchs, % CALL_EXTERNAL
Nicolas~Galmiche, %
Greg~Huey, % UNIT kw for SPAWN
Gaurav~Khanna, %
Christopher~Lee, %
Maxime~Lenoir, %
Peter~Messmer, %
Gregory~Marchal, %
Thibaut~Mermet, %
Lea~Noreskal, % src/pro/file_*, ...
Orion~Poplawski, % 
Rene~Preusker, % idl_validname.pro
Mateusz~Turcza, % SEM_*, cygwin port
Joanna~Woo, % (cokhavim) plplot issues
H~Xu, % FILE_WHICH
\ldots

GDL contains snippets of code borrowed from other free and open-source projects credited to:
Deepak~Bandyopadhyay, % gzstream
Sergio~Gelato, % (basic_pro.hpp)
Lutz~Kettner, %gzstream
Craig~B.~Markwardt, %(helpform.pro:;   craigm@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Paul~Ricchiazzi, %(findex.pro)
Danny~Smith, %(gsl_fun.cpp)
J.D.~Smith, %(hist_nd.pro)
Richard~Schwartz, %(value_locate.pro)
Paul~Wessel, %(gshhs.cpp)
Bob~Withers, %(base64.hpp)
\ldots

Pre-compiled or pre-configured packages of GDL are available for numerous systems thanks to:
Juan~A.~A\~nel, % Debian
Axel~Beckert, % Debian
Markus~Dittrich, % Gentoo
Takeshi~Enomoto, % Macports
S\'ebastien~Fabbro, %
Orlando~Garcia~Feal, % ArchLinux
Gaurav~Khanna, %
Justin~Lecher, % 
Sebastien~Maret, % Fink
Lea~Noreskal, % Debian
Orion~Poplawski, % Fedora
Marius~Schamschula, % HMUG
G\"urkan~Seng\"un, % Debian
Thierry~Thomas, % FreeBSD
\ldots

%libraries:
GDL is written in C++ using the Terence Parr's ANTLR language-recognition framework. 
Most of the library routines are implemented as interfaces to open-source packages 
  such as GNU Scientific Library, PLPlot, FFTW, ImageMagick, and many many more. 

% IDL/PV-WAVE authors
Last but not least, we would like to acknowledge the designers of IDL and PV-WAVE.

Please do report any missing name on the lists above in the same way
  as any other bug in GDL (see section below).
