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+Paul Davis (Philadelphia, PA) was and is the primary author of Ardour.
+
+Taybin Rutkin (New York, NY) has contributed lots of code, and was
+particularly responsible for the use of XML in the state persistence
+aspect of the program. He also (re)wrote the soundfile library code to
+use LRDF. In addition he was responsible for the integration of the
+gettext system and the compose() templates that make Ardour's
+internationalization possible. He has consistently made suggestions
+that resulted in significantly more elegant code and design. Taybin
+also set up and oversees the Mantis bug reporting system used by all
+of us, and tends to take on "infrastructure" issues such as the switch
+to SCons as the build system.
+
+Jesse Chappell (Washington, DC) keeps on making major contributions to
+Ardour. It almost seems pointless to list the things he has worked on
+because there is so much of it. They include being able to handle
+multichannel tracks, a major change in the program's design and
+capabilities, and many additions/improvements to the GTK GUI,
+including mouse zoom mode and the route params editor. Jesse was the
+first person to just "walk in" and understand the Ardour codebase.
+
+Marcus Andersson (Karlstad, Sweden) contributed a number of useful
+patches and worked on the dB-related issues in the gain stages and
+metering, other numeric computations, and much useful debugging, bug
+reporting and analysis.
+
+Jeremy Hall (Sterling, VA) contributed several patches and worked
+intensively on ksi_ardour, the keystroke-based-interface to libardour
+designed for sight-impaired and GUI-averse users.
+
+Steve Harris (Southampton, UK) contributed code to handle speed-based
+interpolation, an area I did not want to get my head around, as well
+as dithering, panning, metering and other DSP-centric issues.  He also
+wrote the LRDF library used by Ardour's soundfile library code, not to
+mention dozens of LADSPA plugins that make Ardour a genuinely useful
+tool.
+
+Tim Mayberry (Brisbane, Australia) did lots and lots and lots of work
+on mouse-driven editing.
+
+Nick Mainsbridge <beatroot@optushome.com.au> is responsible for many
+improvements to the rulers, and several other tweaks. 
+
+Colin Law wrote the code that supports Ardour's integration with
+the CMT Animatics engine. He was also very involved in refactoring the
+GUI code design to support different kinds of tracks, thus laying the
+groundwork for extending ardour's domain to include MIDI and video.
+
+Gerard van Dongen (Rotterdam, Netherlands) has done a set of scattered
+but critical work with a vague focus on the mouse. He has made some
+particularly important fixes to the incredibly hairy code that draws
+automation curves. Gerard also helped out with a workshop on Ardour
+held at the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, Rotterdam, in November
+2004.
+
+Smaller (but not necessarily minor) patches were received from the
+following people:
+
+  Mark Stewart
+  Sam Chessman (Reston, VA)
+  Jack O'Quin (Austin, TX)
+  Matt Krai
+  Ben Bell
+  Thomas Charbonnel (Lyon, France)
+  Robert Jordens
+  Christopher George
+  Rob Holland
+  Joshua Leachman
+  Sampo Savolainen
+  Per Sigmond
+  
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