Development Team
Development
zenphoto was started in May of 2005 with a published specification on a weblog (trisweb.com), and each version saw dozens of comments leading to revision of the spec and more ideas for subsequent versions. It was a fruitful and enjoyable development process that is not even close to being finished. If you’d like to participate, please visit the message boards and introduce yourself, or just start submitting patches on the bug tracker.
In September 2007, members of the Zenphoto community began improving Zenphoto and making a ‘community build’ that included many new features and fixes, since the development had stalled for over six months. The community build was then merged into the Zenphoto codebase and development continued with a core team of developers and contributors. Finally, on November 2nd 2007 Zenphoto 1.1 was released, including many new features and improvements.
We now have an excellent team of developers working on the project and development is much more active than in the past. Thank you to all those responsible for the 1.1 and 1.2 releases and continued development of Zenphoto.
Main Contributors
The following people regularly contribute to Zenphoto or its community. We differentiate them because of the time and energy they dedicate to the project, and because they are the people that you will most likely deal with when submitting a bug, asking questions in the support forums, or communicating with the Zenphoto team in general. The Zenphoto Project is dependent on these people for its continued development and growth. We can’t thank them enough.
sbillard (Stephen) - Chief Developer
Retired. Graduate from Yale in 1966. 35 years in software development in all sorts of roles, including Director of Operating Systems development at the Unisys (nee Burroughs) facility in Mission Viejo, CA. and former primary implementer of the Burroughs Master Control Program for the Burroughs mainframe computers.
Author and publisher of a number of Shareware, Freeware, and commercial software packages including: Printographer for the Apple II and the GUI front end for QuadToneRIP, a B&W printing RIP
Website/Zenphoto: albums.sbillard.org (test site: testalbum.sbillard.org)
acrylian (Malte) – Developer
Freelance Illustrator, Graphic Designer and Webdesigner. Co-designer of the zenphoto site and responsible for the German translation. Originally developed Zenpage – A CMS plugin for Zenphoto.
Website: www.maltem.de
trisweb (Tristan) – Project Leader
BA/CompSci from UC Berkeley, Lead programmer, Silvertip Labs Inc. Founder and lead developer of Zenphoto for 3 years. Designed the core software, the “Testing” theme, the “Tricasa” theme with Javascript preloading, and more.
Website: www.trisweb.com
Main translators
These people are the most active who work hard to translate and maintain over 2000 text strings for each release so Zenphoto is really international. We really appreciate their work.
C32 (Carlos Varela) – Spanish
Media designer from Santiago, Chile
Website: www.carlosvarela.net
Fatman (Simon Lee) – Chinese
Software developer, Hong Kong
Website: www.tinha.org
Zenphoto: fatmangallery.com
Fetard (Samy Rabih) – French
Website: lahaut.info
fretzl (Fred) – Dutch
iacchi (Iacopo Benesperi) – Italiano
Website: www.iacchi.org
mikeque (Michael Kay) – Spanish
User experience/user interface, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Website: www.peep.org
Former Contributors
These people have contributed to Zenphoto significantly in the past. We thank these people immensely for all their support and contribution!
krainbolt (Kevin) – Developer
Graduate from University of Missouri. Coldfusion Developer, Web-designer (www.career.umkc.edu). Mark helps with various things like producing the videos for the site, co-designing the ZP website, moderating on the forums, testing, and general advice. Also Mark was responsible of keeping Zenphoto alive with maintaining the so called “community build” (which became the base of Zenphoto 1.1 later) in 2007 while it’s developement and future was on hold for some time.
Ozh
Website: http://planetozh.com
mannkind (Dustin)
Programmer, System Administrator, Web Developer, Usability Advisor, University of Washington.
Geospatial Patch for ZenPhoto (Trac#78).
Website/Zenphoto: www.thenullpointer.net
Vistronic
Broadcast Engineer
Website/Zenphoto: www.wtjr.org
GameDudeX (Darrell)
Systems Administrator/IT Support/Network Administrator/Web Developer, Radiologic Technologist Student
Developer of the Akismet Hack.
Website: www.gamedudex.com
Chilifrei64 (Daniel)
Systems Administrator
Website: www.chilifrei.net
thinkdreams (Craig)
Network Administrator, Exactech, Inc. (http://www.exac.com)
Website/Zenphoto: www.bushwoodworking.com
La0c00n (Bastien)
Student in Computer Science at the ENIB (www.enib.fr), Founder of Lookiad, a “junior company” working on web development and design.
Original developer of ZenVideo, the first Zenphoto video tool support
Skwid (Benjamin)
B.Sc. in Biology; Co-developer of the “thinkdreams” theme with Craig. Implemented slideshow, fotobuzz
Msturm10 (Martin) (Martin10 on Trac)
Software developer (Java, PHP, Ruby)
Website: www.wolkje.net
Jb
Student, ENSIIE, a French postgraduate school in computer science.
Website/Zenphoto: jbaviat.free.fr/photos
Luckyspin (Todd)
Website: www.luckyspin.org
Rakaz (Niels)
Website: rakaz.nl
Raphaël HUCK
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