git-annex/doc/thanks.mdwn

Financially, the development of git-annex was made possible by the generous
donations of many people. I want to say "Thank You!" to each of
you individually, but until I meet all 1500+ of you, this page will have to
do. You have my most sincere thanks. --[[Joey]]

You can support my git-annex development
[on Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/joeyh) or
[on Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/joeyh/) or
[other ways](https://joeyh.name/thanks/)

(If I got your name wrong, or you don't want it publically posted here,
email <id@joeyh.name>.)

## code and other bits

git-annex is mostly developed by Joey Hess, with code contributions
from Sören Brunk, Robie Basak, Klaus Ethgen, Sebastian Reuße, Oliver
Matthews, guilhem, fftehnik, Ben Gamari, Eric Siegerman, Sean T Parsons,
Félix Sipma, aristidb, Daniel Brooks, Alper Nebi Yasak,
James MacMahon, Farhan Kathawala, divergentdave, Gabor Greif, wzhd, Pieter
Kitslaar, Øyvind A. Holm, Michael Alan Dorman, Ben Boeckel, Robert Schütz,
Magnus Therning, Yaroslav Halchenko, silvio, Magnus Therning,
Justin Geibel, Trent, Jon Ander Peñalba, divB, Fraser Tweedale,
jlebar, Johan Kiviniemi, Alberto Berti, ion, Anarcat, Adam Spiers,
Peter Simmons, Nicolas Pouillard, Eskild Hustvedt, Nathan Collins,
Sergei Trofimovich, Mark Wright, Jimmy Tang, Josh Triplett,
and Joachim Breitner.

Many folks have [[contributed|contribute]] documentation fixes, 
tips, user support, etc. Two names that come to mind are Anarcat and
CandyAngel. John Lawrence made the logo. And many others have
contributed good bug reports and great ideas.

## financial support, 2019-2023

<img alt="McGill logo" src="https://mcgill.ca/hbhl/sites/all/themes/moriarty/images/logo-red.svg" width=100>
<img alt="Neurohub" src="https://joeyh.name/blog/pics/neurohub.png" width=100>
<img alt="Powderhouse logo" src="https://d33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net/e9285c9a8db37874efdadd61f2231774ce1d86cb/5de87/assets/phs-leftaligned-logo.svg" width=100>

git-annex development was supported in large part by:

* [NeuroHub](https://www.mcgill.ca/hbhl/research/platforms), funded
  by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund, awarded to McGill
  University for the Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives initiative.
* [Datalad](http://datalad.org/), funded by
  [a NSF grant](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1912266),
  awarded to Dartmouth College in cooperation with
  University Magdeburg and Research Center Jülich.
* [DANDI](https://www.dandiarchive.org/), funded by
  [a NIH grant](https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=9981835)
  awarded to MIT, Dartmouth College, and Kitware.
* [ReproNim](https://repronim.org/), funded by
  [a NIH grant](https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_details.cfm?aid=8999833)
  awarded to UMass Medical School Worcester, Dartmouth College, MIT, et al.
* [Powderhouse Studios](https://powderhouse.org/)
* Gioele Barabucci ENK

Thanks also to these folks for their support: 
[[!inline raw=yes pages="thanks/list"]] and anonymous supporters.

## financial support, 2014-2018

git-annex development was partially supported by the
[Datalad project](http://datalad.org/), funded by a
[NSF grant](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1429999),
and niceman (repronim tr&d3).

Thanks also to these folks for their support: 
[[!inline raw=yes pages="thanks/list.2018"]] and anonymous supporters.

## financial support, 2013-2014

Continued git-annex development was [crowd funded](https://campaign.joeyh.name/)
by these excellent people. *Hug*

Eric Hanchrow, Michael Barabanov, Douglas Butts, Cody Woodard, Anna Hess,
Maggie Hess, Francois Marier, Michael Linksvayer, Alexander Brem, Yaroslav
Halchenko, Otavio Real Salvador, Giovanni Moretti, Mark Hepburn, Jim
Cheetham, Ali Gündüz, Chia Shee Liang, Vincent Arel-Bundock, Mark R Jones,
Willard Korfhage, Faidon Liambotis, Daniel Callahan, Sheila Miguez,
Christopher Webber, Daniel Patterson, Charity Hanif, Blair Mckenzie, Romain
Lenglet, Joseph Liu, Robert Beaty, Remy van Elst, Juho Snellman, Jason
Davidson, Dane Larsen, Kuno Woudt, Navishkar Rao, Ryan Sorensen, Jonathan
Castello, Nimrod Mesika, Amitai Schlair, Zellyn Hunter, Jan Pieper, Boyd
Smith, Brett Eisenberg, Péter Károly Juhász, Allan Franta, Aaron De Vries,
Donald Plummer, Joona Lehtomäki, Evan Anderson, Pedro Côrte-Real, Bradley
Unterrheiner, Wietse van Buitenen, James Shubin, Daniel de Kok, Michael
Zehrer, Peter deHaan, David Schmitt, Ian Downes, Gioele Barabucci, Gergely
Nagy, Diego Ongaro, Jonas Wiklund, Strakhov Artem, £ukasz Szczęsny, Peter
Olson, Thomas Berker, Greg Young, narf, Michael Jakl, Andrea Rota, Tobias
Nix, Andreas Olsson, Tobias Ussing, Pere Quintana Segui, Pierre Gambarotto,
Yuriy Zaytsev, Thomas Djärv, Thomas Hochstein, Simon Lundmark, Damien
Diederen, Arthur Lutz, Gert Van Gool, Jed Brown, Sören Brunk, Thorsten
Bormer, Vincent Sanders, Thomas Lundstrøm, Robert Connolly, Marc Seeger,
Per Andreas Buer, Thomas Andersen, Hendrik Müller Hofstede, Dominik
Wagenknecht, Robert Walker, Nicholas Weigand, Maximilian Weigand, Thomas
Jost, John, Angel Ramboi, Thomas Bartels, Fernando Jimenez, Tobias
Mersmann, András Veres-Szentkirályi, Richard Hartmann, John Hedges,
Nedialko Andreev, Roderik Koenders, Sławomir Gwizdowski, Aapo Laitinen,
Jonathan Harrington, Dirk Kraft, Fabian Bartschke, Philip Frank, Patrick
Steegstra, Roberto Zedda, Leon Major, Torbjørn Thorsen, Lukas Anzinger,
Pollan Ruben, Daniel Hofer, Johannes Krampf, Jörn Gersdorf, Kristoffer Egil
Bonarjee, David Iwanowitsch, Daniel Egger, Titus Stahl, Robin Sheat, Thomas
Nicolaisen, Karsten Heymann, Askings & Medina Business Services, Pieter
Mulder, Geoffrey Huntley, Wouter Mooij, Kari Oikarinen, sven dowideit,
Ethan Aubin, Nathan Rickerby, Tobias Brunner, Stian Haukaas Eikeland, Jan
Dittberner, Jeffrey Goeke-Smith, Joseph Cullen, James Orr, Markus Plangg,
Glendon Solsberry, Georg Bauer, Andreas Leha, Ian Kozhurin, Boris Hupkens
van der Elst, Daniel Brockman, Scott Robinson, Olaf Lorenzen, Øyvind
Andersen Holm, Logan Owen, Christopher Douglass, Nicolas Pouillard, Florian
Schlegel, Hans-Christian Jehg, Thomas Mechtler, Joshua McKinney, Tom
Atkins, Paul Scott-Wilson, Rafal Czlonka, Benjamin Williams, Ulises Vitulli, Mesar
Hameed, Vishakh Vishakh, Daniel Washburn, Maximilian Haack, Jan Gondol,
Carlo Matteo Capocasa, Jevgenijs Zolotarskis, John Cooper, Matthew Gregg,
Peter Jarosak, Edward Heil, Kyle Kurtenbach, David Kaminski, Joonathan
Mägi, Piotr Ożarowski, Ernest Braganza, Adam Sjøgren, Simon Michael,
Protonet, Valentin Churavy, Trenton Cronholm, Ellis Whitehead, Maarten
Everts, Paul Tötterman, Julien Lefrique, Robert F Donnelly,
LeastAuthority.com, Floris Bruynooghe, Kevin Krouse, Bernhard Schmidt,
Jason Woofenden, Jacek Nykis, Benjamin Carrillo, Teemu Hukkanen, William
Heinbockel, Kristofer Bergstrom, Richard Gibson, Julian Andres Klode,
Jeffrey Guenthner, Jochen Kupperschmidt, Andrew Eskridge, Eric Wallmander,
Aaron Haviland, Evan Deaubl, Felix Crux, Matthew Marshall, Hamish Coleman,
xymostech, Matthew Mercer, Ben Challenor, András Csáki, Stelian Iancu,
Dmitri Popov, Anthony DiSanti, Perttu Luukko, Daniel Glassey, Aurélien
Pinceaux, Svenne Krap, Sven Hartge, Frank Blendinger, Lisa Feilen, Kyle
Kujala-Korpela, Walter Somerville, Filippo Giunchedi, Tyler Willingham,
Gernot Schulz, Daniel Gervais, Denver Gingerich, Nicolas Joseph, tommy,
bak, Grejdi G, Gabriel de Perthuis, Mayank Jain, Radu Raduta, Gregory
Grossmeier, Errol Hess, Janin Kolenc, Sean Whitton, Philippe Gauthier,
Ananda Widyadharma, Jochen Bartl, Fredrik Hammar, THM Schoemaker, Marek
Jawurek, Johan Herland, Gian-Maria Daffre, Justine Lam, Ori Livneh, Arnaud
Berthomier, Chad Horohoe, Lois DeFiore, Lieven Baes, Patrick Wheeler, James
Kim, Carlos Trijueque Albarran, Ritesh Nadhani, chesty, Andre Pereira,
Eskild Hustvedt, David Wagner, Maximiliano Curia, András Széll, Allan
Holman, Thomas Langewouters, Anonymous, Peter Daengeli, Josh Taylor, Abhishek Dasgupta, Maarten Aertsen, Mark Sheppard,
Daengeli, Josh Taylor, Abhishek Dasgupta, Maarten Aertsen, Mark Sheppard,
Markus Engström, Samuel Tardieu, Geog Wechslberger, Abdó Roig, Dmitry
Markushevich, Sergio Rubio, Jim Paris, Vivek Gani, Brock Spratlen, Nathan
Howell, Alan Chan, Alexandre Dupas, Daniel Atlas, Patrick Hallen, Matthew
Forrester, Binyamin Cherniavsky, Florent Fourcot, Nathan Yergler, Hannibal
Skorepa, Cedric Staub, Melissa Binde, Marc Bobillier, Zoran Zaric, Ralph
Mayer, Jay Pozo, Walter Somerville, Remy Honig, Bernhard Urban, Nurullah
Akkaya, Ari Pollak, Kalle Svensson, Stephan Schulz, Joshua Honeycutt,
Justin Keyes, Filias Heidt, Manish Sharma, Benoît Zugmeyer, Andrew Kraut,
Markus Breitenberger, Dominik Deobald, Ayla Ounce, Tobias Ammann, Peter
Lloyd, Pierre Chambart, Michael Alan Dorman, Kyle Meyer, Kristoffer
Gronlund, Jay Dugger, Jeff McNeill, Oskari Timperi, Mathias Linden,
Ole-Morten Duesund, Tom Lowenthal, Anders Lannerback, Tony Cantor,
Stephanie Eikenberry, Vanja Cvelbar, Fabrice Rossi, Franz Pletz, Karl
Wiberg, Sam Kleinman, Vincent Demeester, Tristan Helmich, Zero Art Radio,
Bruno Bigras, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Stanley Yamane, Christopher Browne,
David Whittington, Fredrik Gustafsson, Peter Hogg, Tom Francart, Wouter
Verhelst, Christian Savard, wundersolutions, Andreas Fuchs, Eric Kidd,
Georg Lehner, Berin Martini, Stewart Wright, Bence parhuzamos, Stefan
Schmitt, Antoine Boegli, jscit, Christopher Kernahan, A Marshall, Jürgen
Peters, Aaron Whitehouse, Jouni K Seppanen, Michael Albertson, Andreas
Laas, Thomas Herok, Aurelien Gazagne, Bryan W Stitt, anonymous, Chris
Kastorff, Henning Hasemann, Leonardo Taglialegne, Frank Thomas, Frédéric
Schütz, Riad Wahby, Maxwell Swadling, Bram Senders, Péter Párkányi, Tom
Dimiduk, Christian Kellermann, Kilian Evang, Christian Studer, Tim
Humphrey, Jürgen, Richard Collins, Renaud Casenave-Péré, Patrick Lynn,
Gregor Gramlich, Hugo Mougard, Arun Srinivasan, Paul Tagliamonte, Don
Armstrong, Adam DeWitt, Timothy Hobbs, Jacob Briggs, Mark Eichin, Matthew
Raso-Barnett, Damien Raude-Morvan, Mark Lopez, Mattias Olsson, Marco A L
Barbosa, Thomas de Ruiter, Anders Claesson, Philipp Meier, Henrik Ahlgren,
Michael Hofmann, Audric SCHILTKNECHT, Wojtek Burakiewicz, Christian
Dietrich, Jacob Kirkwood, Fabian Jansen, gregor herrmann, Martin Werner,
Adam Baxter, Sören Köpping, Pierce Lopez, David Lehn, Michal Politowski,
John Lawrence, Nicholas Golder, Adam Spiers, Pär Mattsson, Matt Lee,
Timo Heister, Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen, James Valleroy, Felix Gruber, Björn
Pettersson, Nicola Chiapolini, Christer Stenbrenden, Hannes Maier-Flaig,
Paul Walker, Cary Kempston, Andrew Cant, Albert Drengg,
Martin Pollow, Karl-Georg Sommer, Francois Cocquemas, Daniel Bross, Martin
Florian, Grigorios Prasinos, Olivier Berger, Andreas Herten, Kyle MacLea,
Sozykin Mikhail, André Klärner, Pascal VITOUX, Gunilla Johansson, Dara
Adib, Nicolas Bonifas, Glen Ogilvie, TasLUG, Shaun Westmacott, Georgi
Valkov, Nicolas Dietrich, Auroch, Rasmus Pank Roulund, Michael Niewiera,
Benjamin Koch, Joe Bogner, Christoph Varga, Florian Eitel, Tobias Braun,
Jochen Schulz, Diggory Hardy, Stephane Barland, Sebastian Bober, Arash
Rouhani-Kalleh, Geoffrey Irving, Hans Tzou, Mark Booth, Christoph Neckel,
Aleksandar Iliev, Baldur Kristinsson, Adam Colton, KAWACHI TAKASHI, Michal
Sojka, Alexander Brandstedt, Jarno Elonen, Rob Sharp, John Pybus, Antonino
Mazzurco, Damon Haley, Jason Locklin, ULRICH KORTENKAMP, Karthik
Poobalasubramanian, Alexandre Garel, David Clark, Jeff Johnson,
Mica Semrick, Paul Staab, Rémi Vanicat, Martin Holtschneider, Jan Ivar
Beddari, Peter Simons, Thomas Koch, Justin Geibel, Guillaume DELVIT, Shanti
Bouchez, Oliver Brandt, François Deppierraz, Chad Walstrom, Tim Mattison,
Jakub Antoni Tyszko, Casa do Boneco, Florian Tham,
and 30 anonymous bitcoin users

With an especial thanks to the WikiMedia foundation,
and Rede Mocambos.

## financial support, 2012-2013

<a name="kickstarter">
The git-annex assistant was [crowd funded on Kickstarter](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joeyh/git-annex-assistant-like-dropbox-but-with-your-own/).

### Major Backers

These people are just inspiring in their enthusiasm and generosity to this
project.

* Jason Scott
* strager

### Beta Testers

Whole weeks of my time were made possible thanks to each of these
people, and their testing is invaluable to the development of
the git-annex assistant.

* Jimmy Tang
* David Pollak
* Pater
* Francois Marier
* Paul Sherwood
* Fred Epma
* Robert Ristroph
* Josh Triplett
* David Haslem
* AJ Ashton
* Svenne Krap
* Drew Hess
* Peter van Westen

### Prioritizers

These forward-thinking people contributed generously just to help
set my priorities in which parts of the git-annex assistant were most
important to develop.

Paul C. Bryan, Paul Tötterman, Don Marti, Dean Thompson, Djoume, David Johnston
Asokan Pichai, Anders Østhus, Dominik Wagenknecht, Charlie Fox, Yazz D. Atlas,
fenchel, Erik Penninga, Richard Hartmann, Graham, Stan Yamane, Ben Skelton,
Ian McEwen, asc, Paul Tagliamonte, Sherif Abouseda, Igor Támara, Anne Wind,
Mesar Hameed, Brandur K. Holm Petersen, Takahiro Inoue, Kai Hendry,
Stephen Youndt, Lee Roberson, Ben Strawbridge, Andrew Greenberg, Alfred Adams
Andrew, Aaron De Vries, Monti Knazze, Jorge Canseco, Hamish, Mark Eichin,
Sherif Abouseda, Ben Strawbridge, chee rabbits, Pedro Côrte-Real

And special thanks to Kevin McKenzie, who also gave me a login to a Mac OSX
machine, which has proven invaluable, Jimmy Tang who has helped
with Mac OSX autobuilding and packaging, and Yury V. Zaytsev who
provides the Windows autobuilder.

### Other Backers

Most of the success of the Kickstarter is thanks to these folks. Some of
them spent significant amounts of money in the guise of getting some
swag. For others, being listed here, and being crucial to making the 
git-annex assistant happen was reward enough. Large or small, these
contributions were, literally, my bread and butter this year.

Amitai Schlair, mvime, Romain Lenglet, James Petts, Jouni Uuksulainen,
Wichert Akkerman, Robert Bellus, Kasper Souren, rob, Michiel Buddingh',
Kevin, Rob Avina, Alon Levy, Vikash, Michael Alan Dorman, Harley Pig,
Andreas Olsson, Pietpiet, Christine Spang, Liz Young, Oleg Kosorukov,
Allard Hoeve, Valentin Haenel, Joost Baaij, Nathan Yergler, Nathan Howell,
Frédéric Schütz, Matti Eskelinen, Neil McGovern, Lane Lillquist, db48x,
Stuart Prescott, Mark Matienzo, KarlTheGood, leonm, Drew Slininger, 
Andreas Fuchs, Conrad Parker, Johannes Engelke, Battlegarden, Justin Kelly,
Robin Wagner, Thad Ward, crenquis, Trudy Goold, Mike Cochrane, Adam Venturella,
Russell Foo, furankupan, Giorgio Occhioni, andy, mind, Mike Linksvayer,
Stefan Strahl, Jelmer Vernooij, Markus Fix, David Hicks, Justin Azoff,
Iain Nicol, Bob Ippolito, Thomas Lundstrøm, Jason Mandel, federico2,
Edd Cochran, Jose Ortega, Emmett Agnew, Rudy Garcia, Kodi, Nick Rusnov,
Michael Rubin, Tom de Grunt, Richard Murray, Peter, Suzanne Pierce, Jared
Marcotte, folk, Eamon, Jeff Richards, Leo Sutedja, dann frazier, Mikkel
kristiansen, Matt Thomas, Kilian Evang, Gergely Risko, Kristian Rumberg,
Peter Kropf, Mark Hepburn, greymont, D. Joe Anderson, Jeremy Zunker, ctebo,
Manuel Roumain, Jason Walsh, np, Shawn, Johan Tibell, Branden Tyree, Dinyar
Rabady, Andrew Mason, damond armstead, Ethan Aubin, TomTom Tommie, Jimmy
Kaplowitz, Steven Zakulec, mike smith, Jacob Kirkwood, Mark Hymers, Nathan
Collins, Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen, Misty De Meo, James Shubin,
Jim Paris, Adam Sjøgren, miniBill, Taneli, Kumar Appaiah, Greg Grossmeier,
Sten Turpin, Otavio Salvador, Teemu Hukkanen, Brian Stengaard, bob walker,
bibeneus, andrelo, Yaroslav Halchenko, hesfalling, Tommy L, jlargentaye,
Serafeim Zanikolas, Don Armstrong, Chris Cormack, shayne.oneill, Radu
Raduta, Josh S, Robin Sheat, Henrik Mygind, kodx, Christian, Geoff
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## also thanks to

* The Kickstarter team, who have unleashed much good on the world.
* The Haskell developers, who toiled for 20 years in obscurity
  before most of us noticed them, and on whose giant shoulders I now stand,
  in awe of the view.
* The Git developers, for obvious reasons.
* All of git-annex's early adopters, who turned it from a personal
  toy project into something much more, and showed me the interest was there.
* Rsync.net, for providing me a free account so I can make sure git-annex
  works well with it.
* LeastAuthority.com, for providing me a free Tahoe-LAFS grid account,
  so I can test git-annex with that.
* Yury V. Zaytsev for running the Windows autobuilder.
* Kevin McKenzie for providing a OSX account for testing.
* Anna and Mark, for the loan of the video camera; as well as the rest of
  my family, for your support. Even when I couldn't explain what I was
  working on.
* And Mom, for stamping and stuffing so many thank you envelopes, and all the
  rhubarb pies.