CREDITS for Mason

The original idea for Mason was inspired by the component system used
by NetGuide Live at CMP Media in 1996.  HTML++ lives on!

Gady Costeff (costeff@yahoo.com) formulated the need for a better
component-based web engine and blessed us with a creative, open-minded
environment.

Tom Smith (tsmith@cmp.com) protected our core development team from
hostile forces, kept calm during the storms, and was (and continues to
be) a great ally of the Mason open source initiative.

Thanks to Debra Robinson and CMP management for generously supporting
the Mason and Content Management open source releases.

Chris Dobosz (chris@mojam.com) helped design the predecessor to Mason
(Scribe) and implemented the predecessor to Content Management system.
He had the first non-CMP production web site to use Mason, Mojam.com.

Dennis Watson (dwatson@cmp.com) also helped design Scribe and was a
never-ending source of Perl and Oracle wisdom.

Kurt Hurtado (kurt@kind.com) helped convert Scribe to Mason and
created the CD-ME example.

Mark Schmick (mark@webz.com) wrote all of the original Mason
documentation and helped greatly in getting the first release out the
door.  He also created the Mason Content Management system.  Mark is a
fellow Perl-worshipper and my programming alter ego if there ever was
one.

Patrick Kane (modus@pr.es.to) was an early Mason adopter providing
useful feedback from the beginning.  He has suggested and implemented
numerous features.

Kirrily 'Skud' Robert (skud@netizen.com.au) started the Mason mailing
list despite my foot-dragging, and I'm eternally grateful.

Matt Jalbert (mjalbert@exuberance.com) lent his artistic flair to
the MasonHQ web site design.

The Internet technology team at CMP was supportive and patient with me
as I brought down the systems with my periodic Mason "improvements".

The following people have contributed suggestions or patches, as
listed in the Changes file:

John Arnold (John_Arnold@dtc.org)
Oleg Bartunov (oleg@sai.msu.su)
Sean Cazzell (cazzell@eng.usf.edu)
Michael Abraham Shulman (mas@kurukshetra.cjb.net)
Michael Alan Dorman (mdorman-perl.mason@debian.org)
Joe Edmonds (jedmonds@stamps.com)
Ewan Edwards (eskwayrd@csp.net)
Pascal Eeftinck (arcade@xs4all.nl)
Jon Frisby (jfrisby@everyone.net)
Philip Gwyn (liste@artware.qc.ca)
Eric Hammond (ehammond@stamps.com)
Brian Holmes (bholmes@cmpnet.cmp.com)
Matt Hoskins (matt@nipltd.com)
Tom Hughes (thh@cyberscience.com)
Tom Hukins (tom@eborcom.com)
Pelle Johnsen (pelle.johnsen@mail.dk)
Dirk Koopman (djk@tobit.co.uk)
Fen Lebalme (fen@lumeria.com)
Jim Mortko (jskills@goofball.com)
Chuck O'Donnell (cao@milf18.bus.net)
Dave Rolsky (autarch@urth.org)
Aaron Ross (ross@forum.swarthmore.edu)
Paul Schilling (pfschill@bigfoot.com)
Randal Schwartz (merlyn@stonehenge.com)
Jeremy Taylor (jtaylor@brite.net)
Renzo Toma (renzo.toma@veronica.nl)
Lee Semel (lsemel@igicom.com)
Michael Shulman (viritrilbia@kurukshetra.cjb.net)
Scott Straley (scott@straley.net)
Jeremy Taylor (jtaylor@brite.net)
Rafael Weinstein (rafael@avantgo.com)
Ken Williams (ken@forum.swarthmore.edu)
Mikhail Zabaluev (mookid@sigent.ru)


Thanks y'all!
Jonathan Swartz
swartz@transbay.net
Last updated September 14, 1999

