Last update: September 6, 2006
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Vincent Béron
Location: St. Laurent, Canada
IRC Nick: papineau
Email: vberon -at- mecano dot gme dot usherb dot ca
Vincent pays the bills as a mechanical engineer. With regard
to Wine, he serves as the packager for Red Hat distributions,
versions 7.3, 8, and 9. Lately he's also been involved in
localization and various janitorial projects.
Jacek Caban
Location: Wroclaw, Poland
IRC Nick: jacekc
Email: jacek -at- codeweavers dot com
Jacek has been working on Wine since 2003. He is a student of computer
science at the University of Wroclaw. Currently he is mostly working on
implementation of Internet Explorer libraries on top of Gecko HTML engine.
Duane Clark
Location: Los Angeles, California
IRC Nick: ?
Email: dclark -at- akamail dot com
Duane is a circuit design engineer who first started using
Wine to run engineering software on Linux. He first started
hacking on Wine in 2000 to make printing of schematics work
right.
Christian Costa
Location: Grenoble, France
IRC Nick: bad2073
Email: titan.costa -at- wanadoo dot fr
Christian is an engineer who works on audio validation and emulation
tools. He first tried Wine in 2001 and began submitting patches the
next year. His first additions were for DOS support of DMA and
SoundBlaster emulation. He moved on to Direct3D and DirectDraw
and worked on the revival of that code. Christian also added
Midi and WaveIn support to the winealsa sound driver. Outside of
Wine, Christian enjoys playing guitar, snowboarding, and games.
Ulrich Czekalla
Location: Toronto, Canada
IRC Nick: ulrich
Email: ulrich -at- codeweavers dot com
Ulrich has been a paid developer on Wine for many years. He
began working for CodeWeavers in 2000 but previous to that had
experience working for Corel. While there, he ported
the WordPerfect Office Suite and Corel Draw to Linux. He's worked
on numerous areas of Wine including the loader, the resource
compiler, common controls, clipping issues, the security API,
and a rewrite of the clipboard just to name a few. When Ulrich
isn't working on Wine he enjoys taking courses at the University
of Toronto and relaxing with his wife.
Huw Davies
Location: Oxford, England
IRC Nick: huw
Email: h.davies1 -at- physics dot ox dot ac dot uk
Huw is the resident font guru. In the past he's also done
extensive work on Wine's Postscript driver and printing.
Stefan Dösinger
Location: Vienna, Austria
IRC Nick: stefand
Email: stefandoesinger -at- gmx dot at
Stefan is a student of Computer Science. He started hacking on Wine when he
tried to get Empire Earth running, now he is working on the Direct3D and
DirectDraw code.
Steven's primary work has been on the port of Wine to the Mingw-gcc
compiler for Microsoft Windows and compatible systems (ReactOS).
His goal is to provide the Window API support from Wine for ReactOS
project. In his spare time he plays with porting Wine to other
platforms like Cygwin and Microsoft Services for Unix.
Krzysztof Foltman
Location: Kraków, Poland
IRC Nick: kfoltman
Email: wdev -at- foltman dot com
Ex-game and audio developer who now earns a living by doing boring
web work at a large Polish Internet portal. In his nonexistent spare
time, he works on the rich text editor clone for Wine.
Martin Fuchs
Location: Bavaria, Germany
IRC Nick: ?
Email: martin-fuchs -at- gmx net
Martin's primary focus of development is for the ReactOS team.
As such, he's implemented much of the functionality of the
ReactOS Explorer. In turn, that work required significant
additions to Wine's shell32 DLL. In the past he's also
contributed to Wine's Winefile application and various user interface
things such as common controls.
François recently moved back to France after spending five
years in California. He attended college at Ecole Centrale
de Lyon studying engineering sciences. He's been involved
with Wine since 1998 and responsible for making Winelib
more usable. Part of that means developing the winemaker
tool.
Jon was born in England but has lived most of his life in Auckland,
New Zealand. He considers himself a Kiwi and his English friends agree.
Jon attended Waikato University in Hamilton, New Zealand and earned a
degree in psychology and computer science. For the most part he's been
traveling for the past few years. He does admit to doing some work,
including converting a friend's Internet cafe from Windows NT to Linux.
Jon's Wine involvement includes work on the shell lightweight API
(shlwapi.dll) and OLE automation.
Aside from programming, his other hobbies include playing guitar and
singing. He's also willing to read any book that happens to be laying
around.
James Hawkins
Location: Dallas, Texas
IRC Nick: Truiken
Email: truiken -at- gmail dot com
James attends the University of North Texas where he will graduate
with a B.S. in Computer Science in the fall of 2007. Since his first
patch in 2004, James has implemented AdvPack and the HTML Help Viewer.
He's also fixed several installer bugs. When he's not skipping class
to work on Wine, James enjoys snowboarding, backpacking, and
collecting antiquarian books.
Mike first got involved with Wine when he tried to make the Adobe SVG
viewer to work in Internet Explorer so he could use Linux to do
development instead of Windows. Since then he's worked on many different
parts of Wine, typically by taking random apps and fixing bugs until
they work. Being a student takes up most of his time, but he fits Wine
hacking along with his other project,
autopackage, into the gaps.
Alexandre Julliard
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
IRC Nick: julliard
Email: julliard -at- winehq dot org
The enigmatic Alexandre Julliard, who has been in the project
since its beginning in early 1993, has worked on and maintained
the official Wine source ever since Bob Amstadt turned the helm
over to him quite early. Although he enforces strict control over
the official source tree (thus ensuring that every change must
pass his scrutiny), nobody questions his abilities as the project
leader, his commitment to quality, and his dedication to the Wine
project; many 'disadvantageous' patches have been avoided by his
strict quality control.
Kevin Koltzau
Location: New York City, New York
IRC Nick: tindalos
Email: kevin -at- plop dot org
Kevin first got into Wine on a whim a few years ago when he
first installed Linux at home and needed to get some games
running. Recently in the process of porting a few Windows
applications he had written he noticed some headers were
missing. In a fit of madness he started implementing theming.
Kevin also enjoys paintball and skiing.
Phil Krylov
Location: Moscow, Russia
IRC Nick: philkrylov
Email: phil -at- newstar dot rinet dot ru
Phil mostly specializes in Richedit code, however, he also
has contributed in other areas. Currently he works as a SAS data
warehouse administrator, but seeks any chance to be paid for making
Free/OSS software.
Tony Lambregts
Location: St. Albert, Alberta, Canada
IRC Nick: ?
Email: tony_lambregts -at- telusplanet dot net
Tony got involved with Wine in 2002 trying to get his children's games
to run. His first patch was in ddraw clearing up some screen corruption
in SimCity. He has worked at cleaning up the documentation, various
janitorial projects and the care and feeding of Bugzilla. His latest
project was to integrate the Application Database with Bugzilla.
Juan Lang
Location: Davis, California
IRC Nick: jil
Email: juan_lang -at- yahoo dot com
Juan lives wherever his backpack is; Anchorage,
Alaska at the time of this writing. He's successfully
managed to avoid real work for nearly two years. When
he's not pretending he's a climber, he's trying to
improve the networking support in Wine, and wondering
why he can't get a date.
How many Australian Wine developers live in South Korea and work
for an American company? If you said just Mike McCormack then you'd
be correct. Mike studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
at the University of Sydney but now splits his time between Seoul and
Minneapolis. Full time he's a Wine developer working for CodeWeavers.
The arrangement works well for him - he gets to see his girlfriend
regularly and has time to concentrate on work too.
Mike has worked on many different areas of Wine including adding
support for named pipes and the MSI library.
Bill Medland
Location: British Columbia, Canada
IRC Nick: ?
Email: billmedland -at- mercuryspeed dot com
Bill has been a programmer since the mid-eighties but only got involved
with Linux and Wine since 2001. He's been involved with getting
applications developed by his employer to work under Wine. As such,
he's worked on a lot of interface areas. Outside of work he enjoys
snowboarding with his daughter, curling, and volunteering for his
church and the Lions.
Marcus has been working on Wine since 1995 and contributed a lot
of patches and bugfixes. He is personally to blame for the first
revisions of reading and saving the Registry, starting the DirectX
implementation, doing the second OLE out of process COM support
implementation, and more. In these times he is taking care that
the SUSE Wine RPMs get build and some small bug fixes.
Marcus studied computer science at the University of Erlangen and
graduated in 1997. After doing civil duty, he started
working as Senior Developer for Caldera Systems in 1999, working on
distribution development. After Caldera closed its development office
in 2002 he started and is now working for the SUSE Linux Products GmbH as a
Teamlead of the Security Team.
Andreas was born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1977 and grew up in Renningen,
near Stuttgart. He did the usual military service after high school
and in 1997 began studying electrical engineering at Stuttgart
University. Now he's attending the University of Applied Sciences in
Esslingen studying computer science. Besides the normal CS classes
Andreas is focusing on embedded systems, automation, and networking.
Most recently Andreas worked on the wineboot utility responsible for
performing startup tasks required by applications. In the past he's
been responsible for work in many different areas including documentation,
installer support, and memory management.
Chris Morgan
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
IRC Nick: cmorgan
Email: cmorgan -at- alum dot wpi dot edu
Chris first got started with Wine back in 1999 when he first
started using Linux. In 2001 he worked for CodeWeavers after
which he continued to work on Wine. Chris wrote both the aRts
and jack audio drivers. Now he's moved on to working on
some configuration issues by improving winecfg and wineinstall.
When he's not performing tech support on #winehq, Chris enjoys
motorcycling and weightlifting.
Jeremy Newman
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
IRC Nick: laxdragon
Email: jnewman -at- codeweavers dot com
A geek who specializes in PHP and Perl web based development, Jeremy
co-wrote and designed the Wine Application database, redesigned the
WineHQ website, and wrote the XML parser for Wine Weekly News. Jeremy
has a knack for transforming a vague idea on a wishlist into reality.
Alex Pasadyn
Location: Austin, Texas
IRC Nick: ajptx
Email: ajp -at- mail dot utexas dot edu
Alex has been using with Wine since the dark ages - 1994. Although,
as he explained, back then it was a bit more like experimenting than
actually using. Alex began submitting patches a few years ago,
primarily related to low-level graphics. Alex is a custom programmer
and engineering consultant but in his spare time enjoys music and
running.
Born in Bucharest, Romania in 1974, Dimi started hacking on a
Sinclair Spectrum clone called HC85 in grade 9. In 1992 he moved
to Toronto, Canada. He earned a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Comp. Sci.
at the University of Toronto Now he's working as an independent
contractor for financial institutions and other large multinational
companies.
Dimi has been involved with Wine since 1995 and contributed to
many different areas, including common controls. Dimi's focus
lately has been on project management and acting as a catalyst to
drive Wine toward a beta release. He also has a fairly new obsession
trying to improve the porting interface to enable applications to be
easily compiled with Winelib.
Originally Eric's involvement specialized in multimedia. He also
contributed substantially to the development of the Wine debugger
and window handling. Lately his focus has been on the DLL separation
kernel32 and ntdll - some of the core parts of Wine. His latest
work includes a complete rewrite of Wine's filesystem handling.
Robert Shearman
Location: Reading, UK.
IRC Nick: playa
Email: rob -at- codeweavers dot com
Rob has worked on Wine since 2002 and has been at CodeWeavers since
2004. He started because he was looking for a challenge and got one when
Jeremy asked him to improve COM in Wine so that DCOM95 would no longer
be needed. When he is not hacking on Wine, Rob enjoys partying and
cycling, although not at the same time.
Michael Stefaniuc
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
IRC Nick: puk
Email: mstefani -at- redhat dot de
Michael first became involved with Wine about four years ago.
He's worked on common controls, winedos, and tackled some of
the janitorial items (compiling with -DSTRICT). Michael's
real job is sys admin. In his spare time he likes to go
climbing.
Aric Stewart
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
IRC Nick: aricstewart
Email: aric -at- codeweavers dot com
Aric Stewart lives in a small, very yellow 1 1/2 story house in snowy
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jeremy White likes to parade him around as the
only Wine hacker that CodeWeavers has been able to grow from scratch,
which is true. Working for CodeWeavers since his graduation from college
he started working on Wine because of his employment at CodeWeavers. He
has done a lot of random bug fixes and work on windows tablets for
CodeWeavers, but really found his own area when he tried to use some of
his Japanese programs on Wine and worked hard to get XIM and IMM32 to
play nice together. When he is not hacking on Wine or answering customer
support tickets, Aric studies martial arts, tries to keep his Japanese
language skills from fading, watches Japanese animation, runs role
playing games and LARPs, makes jewelry, hangs with friends or is out
wandering around one of the lakes in town.
Dmitry Timoshkov
Location: Irkutsk, Russia
IRC Nick: dmitry
Email: dmitry -at- baikal dot ru
Dmitry first got involved with Wine in 1999 when he
tried to get PageMaker 6.5 running. Nowadays,
he specializes in internationalization.
Dmitry helped introduce unicode support in Wine
and converted all the USER controls to unicode. He
also rewrote all the file APIs to use unicode internally.
Dmitry did a lot of work on the X11 driver so it could
support keyboard input from various locales as well as
making dead keys work.
Lionel works as a software engineer on the protocol parts
of GSM/3G phones. He has been responsible for implementing
much of the DirectDraw and lower level OpenGL support in Wine.
He has worked extensively on most of the DirectX APIs,
including DirectSound and DirectInput. In his spare time
he enjoys climbing, hiking, snowboarding, and reading.
Brian Vincent
Location: Breckenridge, Colorado
IRC Nick: vinn
Email: vinn -at- theshell dot com
Brian's regular job is supporting a large telecommunications
infrastructure for a major ski resort. He graduated from the
University of Michigan in 1997 with an electrical engineering
degree. After college he worked for a small software development
firm where he got his first exposure to Wine.
Brian's first real involvement with Wine began in 2001 by taking
over the Wine Weekly News from Eric Pouech. After proving
repeatedly he has no talent for writing code he's decided it's
best to stick with documentation.
Paul Vriens
Location: The Netherlands
IRC Nick: ?
Email: paul dot vriens -at- xs4all dot nl
Paul is a consultant at one of the larger ISV's. He started
working on Wine in 2004 to get some programs running for his
kids as he was reluctant to give them administrator rights
just for running games. In his spare time he's working on
miscellaneous stuff to get Wine to a higher level.
In 1996 Jeremy founded CodeWeavers , the creators of the popular
CrossOver Office and CrossOver Plugin products. He lives in St.
Paul, Minnesota with his wife and two children. Before starting
CodeWeavers, Jeremy founded Holten, White and Associates, a
computer consulting firm. He's the first to point out that
Alexandre won't accept any of his patches. Jeremy has been
a driving force behind developing and promoting Wine.
Tom Wickline
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
IRC Nick: Tom_W
Email: twickline -at- gmail dot com
If you've ever looked at Wine's status pages you've seen Tom's
work. He's responsible for keeping those updated and also
makes general improvements to the web site. Tom has a knack
for getting applications to run and can often be found helping
others in various Wine forums.
