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| <document> |
| <header> |
| <title>Contributors</title> |
| <subtitle>Batik People</subtitle> |
| <authors> |
| <person name="Stephane Hillion" email="stephane@hillion.org"/> |
| </authors> |
| </header> |
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| <body> |
| <s1 title="Introduction"> |
| <p> |
| This page contains informations about the current Batik developers and |
| the features they are working on at the moment. |
| </p> |
| </s1> |
| |
| <anchor id="BatikCommitters" /> |
| <s1 title="Batik Committers"> |
| <p> |
| This section lists all the Batik committers. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| The following people are active Batik developers: |
| </p> |
| <dl> |
| <dt>Thomas DeWeese (TD)</dt><dd><br /> |
| <link href="mailto:Thomas.DeWeese@Kodak.com">Thomas.DeWeese@Kodak.com</link> <br /> |
| <em> |
| Thomas DeWeese is a Senior Software Engineer at Eastman Kodak Company, |
| in Rochester New York where he has worked for the Image Science |
| Division's, image application development group since 1994. Thomas |
| has made contributions to the imaging portions of the Java2D API, |
| and was a major contributor to the Java Advanced Image API (version |
| 1.0). Since then he has participated in the Jini Printing Working |
| group and has recently become a member of Kodak's SVG Working Group |
| team. |
| </em> |
| <br /><br /> |
| </dd> |
| |
| <dt>Vincent Hardy (VH)</dt><dd><br /> |
| <link href="mailto:vincent.hardy@eng.sun.com">vincent.hardy@eng.sun.com</link><br /> |
| <em>Vincent is one of the founders of the SVG Batik project at Apache and the Batik |
| team contact. He is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems Inc., where he |
| is part of the XML technology center. |
| Vincent represents Sun in the W3C's SVG Working Group and is currently a W3C fellow in |
| the W3C office in Sophia Antipolis, France. |
| Vincent is the author of papers and a book on the Java 2D API.</em> |
| <br /><br /> |
| </dd> |
| |
| <dt>Stephane Hillion (SH)</dt><dd><br /> |
| <link href="mailto:shillion@ilog.fr">shillion@ilog.fr</link><br /> |
| <em> |
| Stephane is a software engineer at the Koala project, part of |
| the ILOG's visualization R&D team, located in Sophia-Antipolis, |
| France. His main interests are in programming languages and web |
| standards. He wrote the Apache Batik's DOM, CSS and Swing modules. |
| </em> |
| <br /><br /> |
| </dd> |
| |
| <dt>Christophe Jolif (CJ)</dt><dd><br /> |
| <link href="mailto:cjolif@ilog.fr">cjolif@ilog.fr</link><br /> |
| <em> |
| Christophe Jolif is a Software Architect mainly working on the ILOG |
| JViews Component Suite, the ILOG Java visualization framework. He has |
| been working for ILOG since 1997, and is representing the company at the |
| Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) W3C Working Group since 1999. He has |
| implemented the SVG import and export features in ILOG JViews and is now |
| also working on the SVG Batik project at Apache. |
| </em> |
| <br /><br /> |
| </dd> |
| |
| <dt>Thierry Kormann (TK)</dt><dd><br /> |
| <link href="mailto:tkormann@ilog.fr">tkormann@ilog.fr</link> <br /> |
| <em> |
| |
| Thierry is a software engineer, at the Koala project of ILOG located at |
| Sophia-Antipolis, France and a member of the SVG working group. Thierry has |
| contributed to most of the Koala's projects involving Java and XML. Since |
| then, he co-founded the Apache Batik project. His daytime job is focused on |
| Graphics and XML related technologies. Prior to joining ILOG, Thierry worked |
| as a software engineer for Bull.</em> |
| <br /><br /> |
| </dd> |
| |
| <dt>Nicolas Socheleau</dt><dd><br /> |
| <link href="mailto:nicolas.socheleau@bitflash.com">nicolas.socheleau@bitflash.com</link> <br /> |
| <em> |
| Nicolas Socheleau is a software engineer at BitFlash Inc, Ottawa, Canada |
| where he worked on different SVG related projects. He joined the Batik |
| team in June 2002. His interests include XML technologies and Graphics. He |
| contributed some text functionnalities and SVG DOM interface implementations. |
| </em> |
| <br /><br /> |
| </dd> |
| |
| </dl> |
| |
| <p> |
| The following people are some of the Batik project founders and |
| helped define and implement the initial Batik architecture: |
| </p> |
| |
| <dl> |
| <dt>Bill Haneman</dt><dd><br /> |
| <link href="mailto:bill.haneman@ireland.sun.com">bill.haneman@ireland.sun.com</link><br /> |
| <em> |
| Bill Haneman works for Sun Microsystems' Desktop Enabling Middleware |
| group in Dublin, Ireland, and implemented much of the Batik's text |
| support (though not SVG Fonts, thanks Bella, Dean, and David!). He is |
| also technical lead for the Gnome Accessibility Project |
| (http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap), an open project to provide |
| an accessibility framework for linux and Solaris(TM) desktops. A |
| twenty-year veteran of scientific programming and application |
| development, he is a US expatriate who plays traditional Irish music |
| on the uilleann pipes. |
| </em> |
| <br /><br /> |
| </dd> |
| |
| <dt>Dean Jackson</dt><dd><br /> |
| <link href="mailto:dean.jackson@cmis.csiro.au">dean.jackson@cmis.csiro.au</link><br /> |
| <em> |
| Dean is employed by CSIRO Australia and is currently working at |
| the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) full time on SVG. He is a member |
| of the W3C's SVG working group, and was a developer |
| of the CSIRO SVG Toolkit, one of the first and most complete open source |
| SVG libraries. |
| </em> |
| <br /><br /> |
| </dd> |
| |
| <dt>Emmanuel Tissandier</dt><dd><br /> |
| <link href="mailto:tissandi@ilog.fr">tissandi@ilog.fr</link><br /> |
| <em> |
| Emmanuel Tissandier has been working for 10 years as a software engineer |
| in object oriented environments. He started with the development of CASE |
| tools at Rank Xerox and joined the visualization R&D team of ILOG in |
| 1995. Since 1997, he has been the R&D Project Manager for the ILOG |
| JViews Component Suite, a product for delivering two-dimensional |
| structured graphics, cartography, diagrams, and Gantt charts in Java. |
| </em> |
| <br /><br /> |
| </dd> |
| </dl> |
| |
| <p> |
| Bella Robinson implemented the SVG fonts support in Batik: |
| </p> |
| <dl> |
| <dt>Bella Robinson</dt><dd><br /> |
| <link href="mailto:bella.robinson@cmis.csiro.au">Bella Robinson</link> |
| <em> |
| Bella is a Software Engineer working for CSIRO Australia. She was one |
| of the main developers of the CSIRO SVG Toolkit and has also been working |
| on a Pocket SVG Viewer for handheld devices. Her interests include |
| graphics and XML programming. |
| </em> |
| <br /><br /> |
| </dd> |
| </dl> |
| |
| <p> |
| In addition, <link href="mailto:James.Davidson@eng.sun.com">James Davidson</link> |
| and <link href="mailto:stefano@apache.org">Stefano Mazzochi</link> , two Apache veterans who helped the |
| Batik team start the project at Apache, also have commit access to the SVN repository. |
| </p> |
| </s1> |
| |
| <anchor id="BatikContributors" /> |
| <s1 title="Batik Contributors"> |
| <p> |
| The following people have contributed to Batik: |
| </p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><link href="mailto:carnold@houston.rr.com">Curt Arnold</link> - Contributed many bug reports and fixes</li> |
| <li><link href="mailto:r_diblasi@hotmail.com">Robert A. DiBlasi</link> - Contributed a lot of feedback on the |
| Batik documentation and suggestions on how to improve it</li> |
| <li><link href="mailto:Paul_Evenblij@nl.compuware.com">Paul Evenblij</link> - Contributed an improvement to |
| the way images are handled by the SVGGraphics2D component. Also contributed bug fixes on the SVGGraphics2D |
| component. </li> |
| <li><link href="mailto:pier.fumagalli@eng.sun.com">Pier Fumagalli</link>- is helping us with the Batik web site and |
| mailing lists.</li> |
| <li><link href="mailto:Christophe.Held@sophia.inria.fr">Christophe Held</link> - Contributed a math formula in SVG |
| generated from MathML. </li> |
| <li><link href="mailto:keiron@aftexsw.com">Keiron Liddle</link> - A <link href="http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/">FOP</link> |
| member who is working on an SVG to PDF transcoder that will be part of FOP but that will work in |
| the Batik infrastructure</li> |
| <li><link href="mailto:john.morrison@uk.experian.com">John Morrison</link> - Contributed a set of XSL stylesheets |
| to generate SVG charts, such as line graphs, bar charts or pie charts</li> |
| <li><link href="mailto:neumann@karto.baug.ethz.ch">Andreas Neumann</link> - Contributed two SVG maps which |
| <link href="bert@w3.org">Bert Bos</link> has internationalized (adding an English version to the original |
| German text).</li> |
| <li><link href="mailto:luano@asd.ie">Luan O'Carroll</link> - Contributed the WMF transcoder.</li> |
| <li><link href="mailto:spei@cs.uiowa.edu">Sheng Pei</link> - Contributed on filters and the Regard tool.</li> |
| <li><link href="mailto:neeme.praks@one.ee">Neeme Praks</link> - Contributed patches, feedback and scripts for |
| building charts from John Morrisson's XSL stylesheets</li> |
| <li><link href="mailto:ruini@iki.fi">Henri Ruini</link> - Contributed to a rewrite of the rasterizer application. </li> |
| <li><link href="mailto:david@steadystate.co.uk">David Schweinsberg</link> - Contributed the True Type Font to |
| SVG Font converter</li> |
| <li><link href="mailto:natalian@cs.brown.edu">Nicholas Talian</link> - Contributed on gradients.</li> |
| </ul> |
| </s1> |
| |
| <s1 title="Areas of Expertise"> |
| <p> |
| The following table summarizes the areas of expertise of each active |
| committer. It allows better coordination of both internal and |
| external development efforts. |
| </p> |
| |
| <table> |
| <tr> |
| <th/><th>TD</th><th>VH</th><th>SH</th><th>CJ</th><th>TK</th> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Team Contact</td> |
| <td/><td>X</td><td/><td/><td/> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>SMIL Animation</td> |
| <td/><td/><td/><td/><td/> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Bridge</td> |
| <td/><td>X</td><td>X</td><td>X</td><td>X</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>CSS</td> |
| <td/><td/><td>X</td><td/><td/> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Documentation</td> |
| <td>X</td><td>X</td><td>X</td><td>X</td><td>X</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>SVG DOM</td> |
| <td/><td/><td>X</td><td/><td/> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>GVT Core</td> |
| <td>X</td><td>X</td><td/><td/><td>X</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>GVT Filters</td> |
| <td>X</td><td>X</td><td/><td/><td/> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>GVT Renderer</td> |
| <td>X</td><td>X</td><td/><td/><td/> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>GVT Text</td> |
| <td>X</td><td/><td/><td/><td/> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>SVGGraphics2D</td> |
| <td/><td>X</td><td/><td>X</td><td/> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Micro Parsers</td> |
| <td/><td/><td>X</td><td/><td/> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Scripting</td> |
| <td/><td/><td>X</td><td>X</td><td/> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Swing Components</td> |
| <td/><td/><td>X</td><td/><td>X</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Rasterizer</td> |
| <td/><td/><td/><td/><td>X</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Browser</td> |
| <td/><td/><td>X</td><td/><td>X</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Test</td> |
| <td/><td>X</td><td/><td/><td/> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
| </s1> |
| </body> |
| </document> |
