About the Scribus Team

## About the Scribus Team (in order of joining)

Franz Schmid (fschmid): “Our Linus …”. The original author and main coder; software developer for a manufacturing company.

Peter Linnell (mrdocs): Started with testing the 0.3.6 version, took over the documentation writing for 0.5.0; tester, RPM builder, original web master for the Scribus website; pre-press/IT consultant for publishing and e-commerce companies.

Craig Bradney (MrB): Started with 1.1.1; coding, testing, setup of docs.scribus.net and bugs.scribus.net, manages the IRC channels on freenode.net; IT manager for a global e-commerce company.

Petr Vaněk: Started with 1.1.4; plug-in specialist, has written several Scribus plug-ins and the how-to for Scribus plug-in writing; software engineer.

Riku Leino (Tsoots): Started with 1.1.5; wrote the Document Template plug-in and the OpenOffice.org/HTML importers for 1.2.2; IT manager for a large non-profit organization in Finland.

Andreas Vox – pronounced [fox] – (avox): Started with 1.3.0; developed the original Mac OS X native port, font and PostScript specialist, hates C++ and likes good layout; software developer.

Jean Ghali (jghali): Handles the Windows native port and much of the color management coding, gifted bughunter; pre-press and software engineer.

Oleksandr Moskalenko (malex): Maintainer of the Scribus Debian packages, helps with internationalization, translation, maintainer of the Scribus website, GSoC representative; molecular biologist.

Pierre Marchand (pierremarc); Fonts, canvas, text layout and shaping. Developer of FontMatrix, software developer for a publishing company.

Christoph Schäfer (christoph_s): Bug reporter and tester for bleeding edge Scribus, Wiki editor and doc translator/proofreader, one of the main authors of the Official Manual and the Scribus Online Help.

Hermann Kraus (Herm): Wrote the Render Frame plug-in for 1.4, GraphicsMagick and UniConvertor integration in 1.5.

Jain Basil Aliyas (jainbasil): Wrote the XTG and IDML import filters and works on the next generation of the Scribus Scripter.

Paul Smedley (smedles): Maintainer of the OS/2 port.

## The Supporting Cast and Former Developers (in no particular order):

Paul F. Johnson (Nodoid): Started with sending patches for 0.8, did code review and code optimizing, wrote the “Coding Standards” document.

Steve Callcott (sjc): Wrote the Python plug-in “Font Sampler”, which showed the real power of the Python Scripter in Scribus; works on systems control and consumer electronics, custom software and support.

Alessandro Rimoldi: Added fixes for the Scripter and code clean-ups, GSoC mentor.

Jean-Jacques Sarton: Added some key patches for improving image handling and other improvements. Added the launcher for external image editors to Scribus.

Alistair Robinson: Added some important fixes for font handling in early Scribus versions. Also wrote the clever hack for GIMP to create CMYK TIFFs.

Maciej Hanski: Polish translator and one of the primary contributors to the Scribus Wiki.

Yves Ceccone: Original French translator, wrote many of the Python sample scripts included with Scribus, maintained a large number of docs for Scribus in French.

Craig Ringer: Worked on the scripter, build system and tested early Windows and Mac OS X ports. Contributed fixes for Python and other enhancements; IT/DTP administrator for a newspaper.

Martin Costabel: Maintains the Scribus port and support libraries for Fink, allowing Scribus to run under X11 on Mac OS X.

Niyam Bhushan: Contributed a terrific tutorial on Scribus.

Marti Maria: Answered tons of our questions on color management and provided littleCMS to the the Open Source world.

Johannes Rüschel: Excellent bug finder, former German translator.

Alexandre Prokoudine: Russian Translator, has helped a bunch with internationalization issues, as well as designing UI improvements; professional technical writer.

Lukasz Jernas (DeeJay1): PLD Linux package maintainer.

Howard White: Testing and testing and more testing; retired pre-press engineer.

Cedric Gemy: UI testing and feedback, GSoC mentor; graphics professor and author of books on Open Source graphics software.

Gregory Pittman: One of the primary contributors to the Scribus wiki and the documentation, one of the main authors of the Official Manual and the Scribus Online Help; author of several useful Scribus scripts; neurologist.

Volker Ribbert: Started with the German translation of the docs.

Louis Desjardins: LGM organizer, testing, feedback. Translator of the original documentation to French.

Frederic Dubuy: Translator of the original documentation to French.

François Lanctôt: Translator of the original documentation to French.

Eirik Øverby: Continues to maintain our servers.

Gora Mohanty: Wrote the spellcheck plug-in.

Elvis Stansvik: Wrote the “Search” feature for the Document Outline and implemented tables in 1.5svn.

Tomas Mecir: Orphans and widows control implementation and other improvements in 1.5svn.

Michael Doubez

Cezary Grabski: Lots of fixes and improvements to the text system, as well as other useful enhancements.

Marcus Holland-Moritz: Performance improvements for documents with large images.

Christian Töpp

Andy Fitzsimmon: Creator of the Scribus splashscreen.

Andreas Nilsson: Tango Project icons.

Jakub Steiner: Tango Project icons.

Antoine Cailliau: Tango Project icons.