Contributors

http://www.kineo.co.nz http://www.catalyst.net.nz/ http://www.catalyst.net.nz/ http://www.kineo.co.nz/ http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=105 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=85 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=6 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=1688 http://www.catalyst.net.nz/ http://ewiesion.com/mahara http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=305 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=4899 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=3959 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=14 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=362 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=232 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=6 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=36 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=2 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=3 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=2872 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=85 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=4872 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=9100 http://www.ohloh.net/p/mahara/contributors?query=&sort=commits http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=1405 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=361 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=36 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=11 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=70 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=354 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=1146 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=96 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=28 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=111 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=24 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=206 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=1325 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=679 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=638 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=106 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=124 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=51 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=1688 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=952 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=775 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=2037 http://mahara.org/user/view.php?id=286 http://www.gla.ac.uk/ http://www.galeaders.org/ http://ralphmerrill.com/ http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/ http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/PIOP_Mahara http://www.ed.state.nh.us/ http://sau16.org/ http://windhamsd.org/ http://www.orcsd.org/ http://sau61.org/ http://www.newmarket.k12.nh.us/ http://www.timberlane.net http://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/ http://wiki.mahara.org/index.php?title=Plugins/Artefact/Problems_%26_Conditions http://bsce.uni.lu/ http://bcu.ac.uk/ http://www.luns.net.uk/ http://www.cleo.net.uk/

Mahara Governance Group

The Mahara Governance group combines the strengths of the core partners; specialist e-learning service providers Kineo Pacific and the leading open source company Catalyst IT. Don Christie and Mike O'Connor, are Directors from Catalyst IT, while Richard Wyles and Nolen Smith are Directors from Kineo Pacific. The main function of this group is to provide overall project direction and policy and ensure the project has the appropriate resources from each respective company. As an open source community project, Mahara is guided by broad consultation with the Mahara community.

Project Leader

Richard Wyles has helped guide the direction of Mahara since its inception as a Massey University led project starting in 2006.

Release Managers and Project Maintainers

• Richard Mansfield
• Francois Marier
• Kristina Hoeppner

Contributors

Mahara is developed by a world-wide team of programmers, designers and enthusiastic amateurs. Development is lead by a team of dedicated programmers mainly employed by Catalyst IT.

Many individuals and groups have contributed to Mahara so far. Most of the major ones are listed here. If you think you're missing from the list, don't hesitate to contact us! The community for Mahara is steadily growing and many users dedicate their time to improving Mahara by contributing code, time, documentation etc.

We make special mention of Heinz Krettek, our first ever fan. He has been lurking in IRC on and off since late 2006, maintains the German language pack and his own Mahara support site over at http://ewiesion.com/mahara. Thanks, Heinz!

We grouped the contributors into developers and translators and included those who work on Mahara continuously. Thus, they are listed twice. The order of the contributors is alphabetical according to their first name.

Community Manager

• Julian Ridden

Developers

• Andrew Nicols 
• Dan Marsden 
• Dan Poltawski 
• David Drummond 
• David Mudrák 
• Francois Marier 
• Gregor Anželj 
• Nigel McNie (lead developer from 2006 till the end of 2009)
• Penny Leach (original developer and designer)
• Piers Harding (SAML plugin maintainer)
• Richard Mansfield 
• Ruslan Kabalin 
• Stacey Walker 

and many others

Translators

• Antonio Piedras 
• Fiorentino Sarro 
• Gregor Anželj
• Heinz Krettek 
• Iñaki Arenaza 
• José María Pérez 
• Koen Roggemans 
• Magari León 
• Mari Cruz García 
• Mitsuhiro Yoshida 
• Muhammad Aljaber
• Nicolas Martignoni 
• Dominique-Alain Jan 
• Patrick Zuidhof
• Peter Wuyts 
• Salvatore De Paolis 

Others

Not every active community member codes, commits changes or provides translations. Many also contribute in other ways, are active in the forums etc. Among those are the following.

• Charlie Parker
• Craig Eves
• Derrin Kent 
• Evonne Cheung
• Howard Miller 
• James Ballard 
• Kathy Lowry
• Kristina Hoeppner
• Lisa Wood
• Mark Brown (Director of Distance Education at Massey University; first inaugural chair of the International Academic Advisory Group for Mahara)
• Matt Oquist 
• Phillip Butler 
• Rick Findlater
• Simon Grant 
• Szilvia Toth

Organisations

A large part of the development on Mahara would not be possible without the funding from institutions and organisations.

The University of Glasgow have funded several pieces of work for us, including View Templates, part of Import/Export (the HTML export is thanks to them), and various bug fixes.

GLISI/Ray Merrill funded enhancements to Mahara's groups, and Ray has provided much invaluable guidance around Mahara's usability.

With JISC funding we were able to add import/export functionality to the Mahara e-portfolio system, as part of the 1.2 release. This work was sponsored by the University of London Computer Centre, University of Glasgow and JISC Cetis.

A collaborative group in the State of New Hampshire funded the ability to submit Mahara Views for assessment in Moodle, through a grant from the New Hampshire Department of Education. This collaborative group consisted of the following school districts:

• Exeter Region Cooperative
• Windham
• Oyster River
• Farmington
• Newmarket  
• Timberlane School District 

Cambridge University School of Clinical Medicine sponsored the development of the plugin Problems & Conditions.

 The BScE at the University of Luxembourg funded the development of the tag cloud, improvements to the feedback function in the 1.2 and 1.3 releases, and bug fixes for Mac servers.

Birmingham City University funded the initial development work for Collections and Plans (new features in Mahara 1.3). They also supported the development of locking down blog posts and files that are used in submitted views.

Lancaster University Network Services (LUNS Ltd.) was funded by Cumbria and Lancashire Education Online (CLEO) to design several features.