Mason was created by Jonathan Swartz (swartz@pobox.com) over several
years at CMP Media.

The main development team shifts over time, as with most open source
projects. However, at time of writing, most development is done by
Jonathan Swartz and Dave Rolsky (autarch@urth.org).

Other contributors, most recent first:

(July '01)

Matthew Lewinski (mlewinski@avantgo.com) created the design for the
second overhaul of Mason HQ.

(November '00)

Dave Rolsky (autarch@urth.org) was the first new member to the
development team since Mason's inception. Before joining Dave revamped
the parser module, answered numerous queries on the user's list and
initiated discussions on Mason's future.

Ken Williams (ken@forum.swarthmore.edu) has submitted a variety of
code cleanups/speedups and hosted the first mailing list archive at
the math forum.

Michael Dorman (mdorman-perl.mason@debian.org), Ken Miller
(millerk@mail.husky-oil.com) and Ken Williams currently administer the
mailing lists.

Thanks to Hank Leininger (hlein@progressive-comp.com) and the folks
at MARC for their excellent mail archive interface, on which all of
Mason's lists are archived.

(July '99)

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

(February '99)

Patrick Kane (modus@pr.es.to) was an early Mason adopter providing
useful feedback from the beginning.  He acted briefly as FAQ
maintainer and contributed the first session-related examples. Patrick
currently hosts the Mason site and core development server.

Kirrily 'Skud' Robert (skud@netizen.com.au) started the first Mason
mailing list and hosted it at netizen for over a year.

(October '98)

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.

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

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Besides those mentioned above, 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)
John Beppu (beppu@lineo.com)
Paolo Campanella (npaolo@mighty.co.za)
Sean Cazzell (cazzell@eng.usf.edu)
Caleb Crome (ccrome@yahoo.com)
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)
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)
Denis Shaposhnikov (dsh@neva.vlink.ru)
Lee Semel (lsemel@igicom.com)
Michael Shulman (viritrilbia@kurukshetra.cjb.net)
Scott Straley (scott@straley.net)
Adam Stubbs (mason@advantagecommunication.com)
Jeremy Taylor (jtaylor@brite.net)
John Tobey (john.tobey@isay.com)
Benjamin John Turner (bjturner@whowhere.com)
Rafael Weinstein (rafael@avantgo.com)
Mikhail Zabaluev (mookid@sigent.ru)

Thanks y'all!
