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About The wxWidgets Team

This is a list of the main wxWidgets developers and their current projects. Please let me know if there are people or projects I have forgotten, or if an existing entry needs modification. See also: Internationalization volunteers and Credits.

Core Team | Major Contributors | Past Contributors

Core Team

Dr Robert Roebling
Robert Roebling has written the initial GTK+ port and has overseen its development since then.

Dr Vadim Zeitlin
Vadim is a lynch-pin of the wxWidgets project, working on most of the ports and responsible for some monumental reengineering work and many important new classes. He also wrote most of the wxUniversal widget set and maintains the Mahogany mail client. Vadim contributes prolifically to the mailing lists, both helping 'newbies' and discussing complex C++ and design issues. Vadim is based in France and runs his own consultancy company, TT-Solutions.

Dr Stefan Csomor
Another medical doctor, Stefan Csomor wrote and maintains the wxMac, the port to OS X. He runs Advanced Concepts AG, a Swiss software consultancy specialising in medical software.

Dr Julian Smart
Julian Smart started the wxWidgets project at the University of Edinburgh in 1992. He works on various aspects of the project, including wxX11, wxWinCE, release engineering, and web site maintenance. Julian's company Anthemion Software Ltd. produces consumer and developer products, including the story development software StoryLines, and the wxWidgets dialog editor DialogBlocks.

Vaclav Slavik
Vaclav Slavik works on wxHTML, the XRC system, the new build system, wxMGL, and other areas. He also works on a variety of other open source projects.

Robin Dunn
Robin works on general wxWidgets maintenance as well as the widely used wxPython system. He is also working for a major wxPython user, the Open Source Applications Foundation, headed up by industry leader Mitch Kapor.

Major Contributors

This list is mainly based on SVN write access but there are of course many more people who make important contributions to wxWidgets.

Bryan Petty
Bryan contributed the refactoring of the wxVScrolledWindow for the additions of the wxHScrolledWindow and wxHVScrolledWindow, as well as several patches to the wxAUI library. He also worked with Francesco Montorsi on the conversion of the reference manual from LaTeX to Doxygen, designed the wxWidgets logo, and hosts this website, the wxWiki, and the online reference manuals.

Mattia Barbon
Mattia wrote wxPerl, and works on container classes, wxMotif, and other aspects of wxWidgets.

Chris Elliott
Chris wrote wxHatch, and works on Borland C++ and OpenWatcom compatibility among other things.

Włodzimierz 'ABX' Skiba
ABX does extraordinary amounts of painstaking testing and provides fixes for bugs and warnings in widely used ports. He also explores new wxWidgets ports focusing mainly on mobile devices; and he helps in improving the bakefile build system.

Francesco Montorsi
Francesco contributed the wxCollapsiblePane, wxSimpleHtmlListBox, wxHyperlinkCtrl, wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrl widgets. He also contributed in other areas like wxPlatformInfo, wxDir, wxFileName, wxHtmlWindow events, indeterminate-mode for wxGauge, positional parameter support for wxVsnprintf, wxPresets for bakefile, wxAnimationCtrl, stock item support for wxGTK. Francesco was a Google Summer of Code student (2006) working on the wxWidgets Project Manager.

Kevin Hock
Kevin the secondary author of the wxWidgets book, and has made significant contributions to the wxSocket code, especially making it functional on OS X. He has also done extensive testing and tweaking on the OS X port, and enhancements and bug fixes to the main three ports (e.g. wxPasswordEntryDialog), with some emphasis in consistency among ports' behavior.

Kevin Ollivier
Kevin works on the release scripts, wxWebKit for Mac OS X, the web site, and many other aspects of wxWidgets.

Michael Wetherell
Contributed the wxArchive classes and has worked on many other aspects of wxWidgets.

Paul Cornett
Paul works on various aspects of code maintainance, improving consistency between ports, and improving the wxGTK port in particular.

Stefan Neis
Stefan works on wxOS2 and wxMotif.

Mart Raudsepp
Mart is working mainly on enhancements to the GTK+ port of wxWidgets and is the Gentoo Linux wxWidgets maintainer.

Jamie Gadd
Jamie works on improving the look and feel and conformity to native behaviour of the Windows port.

OSAF (Open Source Applications Foundation)
Members of OSAF including David Surovell, John Anderson and Jed Burgess are active contributors to wxWidgets, especially to the Mac port. Their work on wxPython for OSAF's Chandler application can be found here.

Past Contributors

David Elliott
David has worked on wxCocoa, a port of wxWidgets to the Mac OS X Cocoa API.

David Webster
David worked on the wxOS2 port.

Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
Guillermo wrote wxGIFDecoder, much of wxSocket, and the "Life!" demo.

George Tasker
George contributed the ODBC classes.

Otto Wyss
Otto has contributed a variety of enhancements and bug fixes.

SciTech Software Inc.
SciTech sponsored the wxUniversal widget set and wxMGL port. SciTech is a leading developer of multi-OS device driver development tools.

Karsten Ballueder
Karsten worked on wxWidgets in the early days of wxWidgets 2.

Gilles Depeyrot
Gilles has mainly helped out on the wxMac port.
 
 

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