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-;Daniel Baker ([[User:Bull|bull]])+== Community ==
-:I'm a Brit (sorry) located in the Midlands not far from Dominic, I moderate on the forums, keep an eye on the hotspots section at WWC, develop add-ons (when I'm bored), contribute to the source in tiny ways, and hang out on irc (annoying the real devs with bugs and suggestions) and try to keep Chad from scaring away the geekettes.+;Tisham Dhar ([[User:Whatnick|what_nick]])
- +:Working for ( [http://www.apogee.com.au Apogee Imaging International] ) with commit access to WW SVN and quite a bit of code commits in non-rendering related features.Got 1 line of credit in [[Dstile howto|DStile Howto]]. Trying very hard to bring watermarked Imagery and Terrain to WW. The sections that have seen contributions include Shapefile Support, KML Support, MeasureToool, WMS Importer, WFS Placenames, Placefinder, Virtual Earth Plugin and 3D Textured Models among others.
-;Mike Ellery ([[User:Engmike|engmike]])+
-:I'm a [http://www.vt.edu/ hokie], majoring in electrical engineering. I mostly make hiking related add-ons, and try to help out where ever I can.+
;Jason Ellison ([[User:Nosilleg|nosilleg]]) ;Jason Ellison ([[User:Nosilleg|nosilleg]])
-: Wiki editor and [[chat]] participant. I'm spending most of my time trying to organise things so that new people can come along to the wiki and get the information they need without too much mental strain. Comments and suggestions are always welcome.+:Lead Knowledge Base (wiki) editor.
-;Jessica Gan (NASA LT) ([[User:Jessi|Jessi]])+;Jessica Gan ([[User:Jessi|Jessi]])
-:I maintain Learning Technologies' server infrastructure: NLT web servers, NLT satellite imagery and elevation data servers, World Wind Forums, and World Wind Issues. I also perform release engineering & coordination; act as a liaison with the open source community; work on the World Wind installer; write documentation; work on NLT web content; and help with licensing, World Wind Wiki, and SourceForge/CVS issues.+: Former NLT Employee, stops by every once and a while.
- +
-;Tom Gaskins (NASA LT, Technical Manager)+
;Tim van den Hamer ([[User:ShockFire|ShockFire]]) ;Tim van den Hamer ([[User:ShockFire|ShockFire]])
- +: Spare-time C# coder from The Netherlands. Tim has made great contributions to the World Wind Core (see http://ohloh.net/projects/3931/contributors/2498 ) and also made many useful plug-ins.
-;Adam Hill (Community Developer/Thregecy Inc.) ([[User:Adamhill|adamhill]])+
-: .NET programmer, developer of computer based training content and systems for 15 years (from the Amiga onward). Currently working on real-time data acquisition and dissemination for various oil and gas companies. Am reworking the Input system and getting Audio/Video all spiffied up for the scripting system. Also wrote a chapter in [http://www.mappinghacks.com/ Mapping Hacks] about NWW.+
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-;Patrick Hogan (NASA Learning Technologies, Project Manager) ([[User:Patrick|Patrick]])+
;David Humpohl ("fool") ;David Humpohl ("fool")
: Tweaking, twiddeling and trying to understand the source... : Tweaking, twiddeling and trying to understand the source...
- 
-;Randy Kim (NASA LT, Designer) 
;Gilles Kohl ;Gilles Kohl
: Community developer (fast search, place finder improvements, proxy support), Microsoft mapping [http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ MVP], ISV development lead in real life. : Community developer (fast search, place finder improvements, proxy support), Microsoft mapping [http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ MVP], ISV development lead in real life.
-;Chris Maxwell (NASA LT, Lead Developer) ([[User:Dumdumhead|cmaxwell]])+;Michał Kursa ([[User:Mkpl|m_k]])
 +:Another bored student from Poland (just the lazier one). Trying to help wherever I can. I waste my time on #worldwind channel, moderate the forums and wiki, created some add-ons... I also designed the [[Media:Fef3.jpg|FEF logo]]
;David "dgm" Mays ;David "dgm" Mays
-;Matt Mills ([[User:f0urtyfive|f0urtyfive]])+;Chris Maxwell (former Lead Developer and creator of NASA World Wind) ([[User:Dumdumhead|cmaxwell]])
-: Handles some Cache pack related things as well as trying day and night to get full copies of all the datafeeds despite the fact that no one responds to his emails *sob*. Also enjoys clustered server architecture and long walks on the beach. Operates [http://www.worldwinddata.com WorldWindData.com] with Steven Van Heuven and Owns [http://www.ceteranet.com Ceteranet.com].+
-;Adam Nowacki ([[User:NowakPL|Nowak]])+;Patrick Murris ([[User:Patmurris|Patmurris]])
 +: Community developer from Montreal, Canada. Mainly visual enhancements plugins ([[Add-on:Sky_and_Fog_Plug-ins_%28plugin%29|sky dome, fog]], [[Add-on:Stars|stars]]...) and some core terrain tesselation code now part of 1.3.3 (Ctrl-W to have a look).
 + 
 +;Russ Nelson ([[User:RussNelson|nelson]])
 +: Contributing to Shapefile support.
 + 
 +;Erik Newman (withak)
;Dave Patton ([[User:dpatton|dpatton]]) ;Dave Patton ([[User:dpatton|dpatton]])
-: Looking into technical and administrative aspects of acquiring/using more Canadian data in World Wind. Also participate in the WW IRC channels and WW meetings on IRC. Live in [http://vancouver.ca/ Vancouver, B.C.], host city for the [http://www.vancouver2010.com/ 2010 Olympics]. Self-employed 'computer guy'. Also Canadian Coordinator and Technical Coordinator for the [http://www.confluence.org Degree Confluence Project].+: Live in [http://vancouver.ca/ Vancouver, B.C.], host city for the [http://www.vancouver2010.com/ 2010 Olympics].
 + 
 +;Geoff Peters ([[User:Urobots|urobots]])
-;Bjorn Reppen ([[User:Mashiharu|mashiharu]])+;Bjorn Reppen ([[User:Mashiharu|mashiharu]] / [[User:Mashiharu|mashi]])
-: .NET programmer from icy Norway. Favorite hobbies: Hanging out with the World Wind community and modifying (some will translate this to "breaking") the code. ;)+: C# code monkey (World Wind application) from Norway. Home: [http://www.mashiharu.com http://www.mashiharu.com]
;Thomas Risan ;Thomas Risan
 +
 +;Seth Steben ([[User:Barnacle9|barnacle9]])
 +: Pretends to actually do something, usually just pesters more astute folks on IRC with dumb questions and crazy rants. Sometimes prone to telling tall tales of adventure on the high seas. Seriously, though, I have been addicted to maps my whole life, and WW is the coolest thing ever
;Anthony Taylor ([[User:Llynix|Llynix]]) ;Anthony Taylor ([[User:Llynix|Llynix]])
: Are we putting personal bios here or what we do for world wind? Well I am currently the principal maintainer of the installer and webmaster for worldwindcentral. I am also a forum moderator, IRC chatroom founder, and lead complainer. Outside of ww I tutor math for a measily part time living at [http://www.vernoncollege.edu Vernon College] and take care of a loving woman and her wonderful daughter. I am no relation to Dom below. : Are we putting personal bios here or what we do for world wind? Well I am currently the principal maintainer of the installer and webmaster for worldwindcentral. I am also a forum moderator, IRC chatroom founder, and lead complainer. Outside of ww I tutor math for a measily part time living at [http://www.vernoncollege.edu Vernon College] and take care of a loving woman and her wonderful daughter. I am no relation to Dom below.
 +
 +;James Whitaker ([[User:Pangloss|Pangloss]])
 +: Content developer; planets, geophysical and enthnographic data.
 +
 +;Martin Zoepfl ([[User:Mazop|mazop]])
 +:likes all kind of 'mapping craziness'. plays around and also works with Desktop GIS, WebGIS and 3D Globe Viewers. Martin's AddOns Collection for WorldWind: [http://www.dynagis.net/wwdownload/free_addons.html Free Add-on Collection]
 +
 +;Barney Holmes ([[User:DJ Barney|DJ Barney]]) (Forum - MouseOnMars, IRC - grobda24)
 +: Add on developer. Marker generation using SQL and CGI, PHP. After a hiatus I'm trying to move into the Space Industry. My interests lie at Mars and the other space missions, but my XML generating projects can also improve development for Earth. My main interest is Space Exploration using correlated data and images from the various satellites. Here is my [http://www.worldwindcentral.com/wiki/Add-on:MGS_Layer_Maker my last add on], and here a [http://djbarney.silentflame.com/csv2ww/ current in development project].
 +
 +== Free Earth Foundation Board of Directors==
 +;Daniel Baker ([[User:Bull|bull]])
 +:I'm a Brit (sorry) located in the Midlands not far from Dominic, I admin on the forums, keep an eye on the hotspots section and maintain many sections of WWC, develop add-ons (when I'm bored), contribute to the source in tiny ways (see http://ohloh.net/projects/3931/contributors/2497 ), and hang out on irc (annoying the real devs with bugs and suggestions) and try to keep Chad from scaring away the geekettes.
 +
 +;Jeffery Candiloro ("SpaceChicken")
 +: Australian developer and Entrepreneur.
 +
 +;Adam Hill (Community Developer/Thregecy Inc.) ([[User:Adamhill|adamhill]])
 +: .NET programmer. Wrote a chapter in [http://www.mappinghacks.com/ Mapping Hacks] about NWW. Worked with Shell Exploration in visualizing their data in NWW. Currently working on a real Windows Installer based install and a Xbox 360 port.
 +
 +;Matt Mills ([[User:f0urtyfive|f0urtyfive]])
 +: Runs WorldWindData.com. Has been successful in creating World Wind Datasets. Founding Incorporator of [http://www.freeearthfoundation.com The Free Earth Foundation] the parent company of World Wind Central, also a director on the Board of Directors. Owns [http://www.ceteranet.com Ceteranet Network Systems] a webhosting and colocation firm.
 +
 +;Adam Nowacki ([[User:NowakPL|Nowak]])
 +: Bored Polish student. C/C++ programmer and Linux/BSD server administrator. Doing all the hard tech work behind FEF and WWC. Wrote DSTile, TileService, FEF Cluster software and many other small bits. Is keeping all the servers alive and updated. Looking all the time for more geodata to process.
;Dominic Taylor ([[User:TheBeansprout|TheBean]]) ;Dominic Taylor ([[User:TheBeansprout|TheBean]])
-: Forming the Brit contingent along with Daniel, I'm a student about to take a gap year and then study Computer Science & Networks at [http://www.plymouth.ac.uk Plymouth university]. Also director of a Bath, UK based IT company. I also run a WW downloads mirror at [http://www.twobeds.com/nasa twobeds.com/nasa], and moderate the forums with Chad and Anthony. In my spare time, when I find it, I scare the neighbours with my piano 'skills' and spy on them via the trampoline.+: Forming the Brit contingent along with Daniel, I'm a student on a gap year and then I'm off to study Computer Science & Networks at [http://www.plymouth.ac.uk Plymouth university]. I moderate the forums with Chad and Anthony.
;Chad Zimmerman ([[User:TomServo|Tom Servo]]) ;Chad Zimmerman ([[User:TomServo|Tom Servo]])
-: A yank that keeps the brits under control ;) Mainly do forum moderation and support and support on the IRC channel. I also give the devs ideas for their code because they try NOT to think like a user at most times. I also work on the User Doc and I am also working on developing a World Wind game. On my non-WW time I contract work at General Motors where I do data analysis and reporting for most GM plants world wide (aka help them get numbers to improve throughput). In the real world, I watch turkeys, deer and foxes roam across the back yard and wonder what "vacation" means.+: Member of the Open Source community of World Wind uses since October 2004, one of the [http://www.earthissquare.com/ main World Wind bloggers] and a founding board member of the Free Earth Foundation founded in 2006. He is active in development of the Earthquake Plug-In for World Wind and has created several scientific add-ons. He works closely with the NASA World Wind team to help bring data into World Wind from governmental sources in the US and Europe. He is currently working on projects to help bring World Wind into the classroom and is working with and giving presentations for the Rendezvous Center in San Diego, California. He also develops documentation and user tours for World Wind and also provides support for user groups wanting to use World Wind.
 + 
 +== NASA World Wind ==
 +;Tom Gaskins (Technical Manager)
 +: NASA employee working on the JAVA / JOGL version of NASA World Wind
 + 
 +;Patrick Hogan (Project Manager) ([[User:Patrick|Patrick]])
 +: Former pilot (licensed), deep sea diver (certified), high school science teacher (credentialed), and Registered Geologist in the State of California. Managed NASA Learning Technologies for three years, after a dozen years with the NASA environmental and safety office at Ames Research Center doing groundwater management and other insundry duties. Now having the experience of a lifetime, working with this world-class World Wind team and its extended family of ever-do-wells making up the richly talented open source community.
 + 
 +;Randy Kim (Designer) ("Vigilant")
 + 
-;Martin Zoepfl ([[User:Mazop|mazop]]) 
-:AddOn designing - mostly GIS related themes which i fuse as good as possible with World Wind.... 
== See Also == == See Also ==
 +*[[WWWiki:Admins|Community Administrators]]
 +*[http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/contactus.html NASA World Wind staff contact page]
 +*[http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/credits.html NASA World Wind credits page]
-* [http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/contactus.html NASA World Wind staff contact page] 
[[Category:Credits]] [[Category:Credits]]

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Tisham Dhar (what_nick)
Working for ( Apogee Imaging International ) with commit access to WW SVN and quite a bit of code commits in non-rendering related features.Got 1 line of credit in DStile Howto. Trying very hard to bring watermarked Imagery and Terrain to WW. The sections that have seen contributions include Shapefile Support, KML Support, MeasureToool, WMS Importer, WFS Placenames, Placefinder, Virtual Earth Plugin and 3D Textured Models among others.
Jason Ellison (nosilleg)
Lead Knowledge Base (wiki) editor.
Jessica Gan (Jessi)
Former NLT Employee, stops by every once and a while.
Tim van den Hamer (ShockFire)
Spare-time C# coder from The Netherlands. Tim has made great contributions to the World Wind Core (see http://ohloh.net/projects/3931/contributors/2498 ) and also made many useful plug-ins.
David Humpohl ("fool")
Tweaking, twiddeling and trying to understand the source...
Gilles Kohl
Community developer (fast search, place finder improvements, proxy support), Microsoft mapping MVP, ISV development lead in real life.
Michał Kursa (m_k)
Another bored student from Poland (just the lazier one). Trying to help wherever I can. I waste my time on #worldwind channel, moderate the forums and wiki, created some add-ons... I also designed the FEF logo
David "dgm" Mays
Chris Maxwell (former Lead Developer and creator of NASA World Wind) (cmaxwell)
Patrick Murris (Patmurris)
Community developer from Montreal, Canada. Mainly visual enhancements plugins (sky dome, fog, stars...) and some core terrain tesselation code now part of 1.3.3 (Ctrl-W to have a look).
Russ Nelson (nelson)
Contributing to Shapefile support.
Erik Newman (withak)
Dave Patton (dpatton)
Live in Vancouver, B.C., host city for the 2010 Olympics.
Geoff Peters (urobots)
Bjorn Reppen (mashiharu / mashi)
C# code monkey (World Wind application) from Norway. Home: http://www.mashiharu.com
Thomas Risan
Seth Steben (barnacle9)
Pretends to actually do something, usually just pesters more astute folks on IRC with dumb questions and crazy rants. Sometimes prone to telling tall tales of adventure on the high seas. Seriously, though, I have been addicted to maps my whole life, and WW is the coolest thing ever
Anthony Taylor (Llynix)
Are we putting personal bios here or what we do for world wind? Well I am currently the principal maintainer of the installer and webmaster for worldwindcentral. I am also a forum moderator, IRC chatroom founder, and lead complainer. Outside of ww I tutor math for a measily part time living at Vernon College and take care of a loving woman and her wonderful daughter. I am no relation to Dom below.
James Whitaker (Pangloss)
Content developer; planets, geophysical and enthnographic data.
Martin Zoepfl (mazop)
likes all kind of 'mapping craziness'. plays around and also works with Desktop GIS, WebGIS and 3D Globe Viewers. Martin's AddOns Collection for WorldWind: Free Add-on Collection
Barney Holmes (DJ Barney) (Forum - MouseOnMars, IRC - grobda24)
Add on developer. Marker generation using SQL and CGI, PHP. After a hiatus I'm trying to move into the Space Industry. My interests lie at Mars and the other space missions, but my XML generating projects can also improve development for Earth. My main interest is Space Exploration using correlated data and images from the various satellites. Here is my my last add on, and here a current in development project.

Free Earth Foundation Board of Directors

Daniel Baker (bull)
I'm a Brit (sorry) located in the Midlands not far from Dominic, I admin on the forums, keep an eye on the hotspots section and maintain many sections of WWC, develop add-ons (when I'm bored), contribute to the source in tiny ways (see http://ohloh.net/projects/3931/contributors/2497 ), and hang out on irc (annoying the real devs with bugs and suggestions) and try to keep Chad from scaring away the geekettes.
Jeffery Candiloro ("SpaceChicken")
Australian developer and Entrepreneur.
Adam Hill (Community Developer/Thregecy Inc.) (adamhill)
.NET programmer. Wrote a chapter in Mapping Hacks about NWW. Worked with Shell Exploration in visualizing their data in NWW. Currently working on a real Windows Installer based install and a Xbox 360 port.
Matt Mills (f0urtyfive)
Runs WorldWindData.com. Has been successful in creating World Wind Datasets. Founding Incorporator of The Free Earth Foundation the parent company of World Wind Central, also a director on the Board of Directors. Owns Ceteranet Network Systems a webhosting and colocation firm.
Adam Nowacki (Nowak)
Bored Polish student. C/C++ programmer and Linux/BSD server administrator. Doing all the hard tech work behind FEF and WWC. Wrote DSTile, TileService, FEF Cluster software and many other small bits. Is keeping all the servers alive and updated. Looking all the time for more geodata to process.
Dominic Taylor (TheBean)
Forming the Brit contingent along with Daniel, I'm a student on a gap year and then I'm off to study Computer Science & Networks at Plymouth university. I moderate the forums with Chad and Anthony.
Chad Zimmerman (Tom Servo)
Member of the Open Source community of World Wind uses since October 2004, one of the main World Wind bloggers and a founding board member of the Free Earth Foundation founded in 2006. He is active in development of the Earthquake Plug-In for World Wind and has created several scientific add-ons. He works closely with the NASA World Wind team to help bring data into World Wind from governmental sources in the US and Europe. He is currently working on projects to help bring World Wind into the classroom and is working with and giving presentations for the Rendezvous Center in San Diego, California. He also develops documentation and user tours for World Wind and also provides support for user groups wanting to use World Wind.

NASA World Wind

Tom Gaskins (Technical Manager)
NASA employee working on the JAVA / JOGL version of NASA World Wind
Patrick Hogan (Project Manager) (Patrick)
Former pilot (licensed), deep sea diver (certified), high school science teacher (credentialed), and Registered Geologist in the State of California. Managed NASA Learning Technologies for three years, after a dozen years with the NASA environmental and safety office at Ames Research Center doing groundwater management and other insundry duties. Now having the experience of a lifetime, working with this world-class World Wind team and its extended family of ever-do-wells making up the richly talented open source community.
Randy Kim (Designer) ("Vigilant")


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