Contributors
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Development Team
The development team maintains the core aspect of jQuery (the core library, test suite, documentation, and bug tracking).
John Resig (Massachusetts, United States)
John is in charge of managing the direction of the jQuery library. This involves taking a critical look at existing (and expected) features and making informed decisions about them. He's also in charge of managing development resources and time spent on the different aspects of the project.
Brandon Aaron (Texas, United States)
Brandon has contributed numerous bug fixes for the 1.0.x, and 1.1.x releases. He's also responsible for the .offset() method (having been imported from his excellent Dimensions library).
Jörn Zaefferer (Cologne, Germany)
Joern has been a driving force of the jQuery development process, contributing numerous bug fixes and pushing out many of the 1.0.x releases. He's also responsible for completely re-building the jQuery test suite and writing a large number of the test cases.
David Serduke (California, United States)
David is a web developer who started working on jQuery in an effort to learn more about JavaScript. Since then he has worked on the 1.2.2 and 1.2.3 releases, providing many important bug fixes as well as demos for the documentation.
Evangelism Team
This group is responsible for communicating the desires of the jQuery users back to the dev/web/design teams, while at the same time, going out of their way to bring jQuery to users who haven't found it yet.
Rey Bango (Florida, United States)
Rey Bango is a consultant living in South Florida, specializing in the development of Rich Internet Applications. He's been working with jQuery for a while now, and evangelizing its benefits to a large number of people. He's already helped to convert a number of prominent Cold Fusion developers. He was also responsible for starting and helping to run the jQuery Button Contest.
Karl Swedberg (Michigan, United States)
Karl is a developer living in Michigan who maintains the web site Learning jQuery. He writes numerous tutorials and helps people to better understand how jQuery works. He is a frequent of the jQuery mailing list, helping new users get adjusted to using the library. As a member of the evangelist team he will be continuing his work, finding people who need help understanding the finer points of the library and giving them the resources that they need to get up to speed.
jQuery UI Team
Paul Bakaus (Mainz, Germany)
Paul is a programmer living in Germany, and a partly sponsored contributor to jQuery. His corporate work with jQuery has been focused on transforming jQuery into a high-speed library capable of handling difficult large-scale rich interface operations. He was largely responsible for creating the recent dimensions plugin and worked together with Stefan Petre on the rich effects and components library Interface. He is currently working on jQuery UI, jQuery's user interface.
Plugins Team
The plugins team is responsible for maintaining official jQuery plugins.
Yehuda Katz (California, United States)
Yehuda is a developer living in Santa Barbara, CA who maintains the web site Visual jQuery, and publishes the Visual jQuery Magazine. Additionally, he's a frequent contributor to the jQuery Blog and promoter of good practices within the jQuery core. As a member of the evangelism team he's working to help people discover jQuery; actively trying to find and promote jQuery to new users.
Klaus Hartl (Berlin, Germany)
Klaus has been one of the most vocal supporters of jQuery and unobtrusive design on the jQuery mailing list. His ability to expertly explain quality, unobtrusive, solutions to problems is a tremendous boon to the jQuery project. Klaus is working with both the Evangelism & Dev teams to help promote jQuery and expand its reach, as well as maintaining the Thickbox and Tabs plugins. He will also be spearheading the effort to make Tabs an official plugin.
Mike Alsup (New York, United States)
Mike is a developer living in New York and is responsible for maintaining the official form plugin for jQuery. He has worked quite extensively to unify and test the Ajax-form-submission process into a single plugin. Additionally, much of his work has trickled back into improving the quality, and consistency, of the core jQuery Ajax code. Mike has also written several other popular plugins including BlockUI, Cycle, Taconite and the Media Plugin.
Web and Design Team
The web team is fully responsible for designing and maintaining the jQuery web site.
Scott Jehl (Boston, United States)
Scott is responsible for the revised jQuery logo and redesign of the main jQuery site.
Mike Hostetler (Colorado, United States)
Mike is responsible for setting up, and maintaining, the jQuery Plugin repository.
Past Members
- Stefan Petre (Romania)
Creator of the Interface Plugin. - Nate Cavanaugh (California, United States)
Creator of the jQuery 1.1 site redesign. - Tane Piper (Edinburgh, UK)
Member of the Evangelism team. - Bradley Sepos (Ohio, United States)
Member of the jQuery design team. - Skye Giordano (Missouri, United States)
Member of the jQuery design team.