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<title>Contributors</title>
<subtitle>Batik People</subtitle>
<authors>
<person name="Stephane Hillion" email="stephane@hillion.org"/>
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<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>
<s1 title="Batik Commiters">
<p>
The following people are active Batik developers and are the project's committers:
</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>Bill Haneman (BH)</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>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 he represents Sun
in the W3C's SVG Working Group (his daytime job is to be a member of Sun's XML Technology Center).
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 research engineer at ILOG. His main interests are in
programming languages and web standards. He wrote DynamicJava, a Java
source interpreter, and the Apache Batik's DOM and CSS modules.
</em>
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt>Dean Jackson (DJ)</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>Christophe Jolif (CJ)</dt><dd><br />
<link href="mailto:cjolif@ilog.fr">cjolif@ilog.fr</link><br />
<em>
Christophe Jolif is an R&amp;D Software Engineer mainly working on the ILOG
JViews Component Suite, the ILOG Java vizualisation framework. He has
been working for ILOG since 1997, and is representing the company at the
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) W3C Working Group. He has implemented the
SVG import and export features in ILOG JViews and is now working on the
SVG Batik project at Apache.
</em>
<br /><br />
</dd>
<dt>Thierry Kormann (TK)</dt><dd><br />
<link href="mailto:tkormann@apache.org">tkormann@apache.org</link> <br />
<em>Thierry is a software engineer, at the Koala project of
ILOG located at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France. 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>Bella Robinson (BR)</dt><dd><br />
<link href="mailto:bella.robinson@cmis.csiro.au">bella.robinson@cmis.csiro.au</link> <br />
<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 CVS repository.
</p>
</s1>
<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 DiBlasi</link> - Contributed a lot of feedback on the
Batik documentation and suggestions on how to improve the it</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:keiron@aftexsw.com">Keiron Liddle</link> - A <link href="http://xml.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: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: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>
<li><link href="mailto:tissandi@ilog.fr">Emmanuel Tissandier</link> was one of the Batik project
founders and helped define and implement the initial Batik architecture</li>
</ul>
</s1>
<s1 title="Areas of Expertise">
<p>
The following table summarizes the areas of expertise of each committer. It allows better
coordination of both internal and external development efforts.
</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th/><th>TD</th><th>BH</th><th>VH</th><th>SH</th>
<th>DJ</th><th>CJ</th><th>TK</th><th>ET</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Team Contact</td><td/><td/><td>X</td><td/>
<td/><td/><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Animation</td><td/><td/><td/><td/>
<td/><td/><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bridge</td><td/><td/><td>X</td><td/>
<td/><td>X</td><td>X</td><td>X</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>CSS</td><td/><td/><td/><td>X</td>
<td/><td/><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Documentation</td><td/><td/><td>X</td><td/>
<td/><td/><td>X</td><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>SVG DOM</td><td/><td/><td/><td>X</td>
<td/><td/><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>GVT Core</td><td/><td/><td>X</td><td/>
<td/><td/><td>X</td><td>X</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>GVT Filters</td><td>X</td><td/><td>X</td><td/>
<td></td><td/><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>GVT Renderer</td><td>X</td><td/><td>X</td><td/>
<td/><td/><td>X</td><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>GVT Text</td><td/><td>X</td><td/><td/>
<td>X</td><td/><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>SVGGraphics2D</td><td/><td/><td>X</td><td/>
<td/><td/><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Micro Parsers</td><td/><td/><td/><td>X</td>
<td/><td/><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Scripting</td><td/><td/><td/><td/>
<td/><td>X</td><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Swing Components</td><td/><td/><td/><td>X</td>
<td/><td/><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Rasterizer</td><td/><td/><td/><td/>
<td/><td/><td>X</td><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Browser</td><td/><td/><td/><td>X</td>
<td/><td/><td/><td/>
</tr>
</table>
</s1>
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