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<document>
<header>
<title>Batik contributors</title>
</header>
<body>
<p>
This page contains information about the current Batik developers and
the features they are working on at the moment.
</p>
<section id="committers">
<title>Committers</title>
<p>
This section lists all developers with commit access to the Batik
subversion repository.
</p>
<p>
The following people are active Batik developers:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>Thomas DeWeese (TD)</dt>
<dd>
<p><a href="mailto:Thomas.DeWeese@Kodak.com">Thomas.DeWeese@Kodak.com</a></p>
<p>
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.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>Cameron McCormack (CM)</dt>
<dd>
<p><a href="mailto:cam@mcc.id.au">cam@mcc.id.au</a></p>
<p>
Cameron McCormack is a postgraduate student at Monash University in
Melbourne, Australia, where he is undertaking his PhD. His thesis
relates to adaptive layout of diagrams, and he has worked on an
extension to SVG to allow expressions as attribute values. He also
is an invited expert on the SVG Working Group. Cameron
has been a committer since 2004, and has contributed code mostly
related to SMIL animation and upcoming SVG 1.2 support.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>Dieter von Holten (DH)</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Dieter is a freelance programmer living in Hamburg, Germany. He
spends his time on projects in refineries and tankfarms, chasing
bits from ERP to PLC and back. Although not specifically an expert
with graphics, he tries to help out “maintaining and enhancing this
interesting, non-trivial piece of code”.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>Helder Magalhães (HM)</dt>
<dd>
<p><a href="mailto:helder.magalhaes@gmail.com">helder.magalhaes@gmail.com</a></p>
<p>Helder is a software engineer at the Power Systems Automation unit of
Efacec, in Maia, Portugal. He is an SVG enthusiast and has been
involved with the technology since 2005. In his spare time, he tries
to help out in several open-source projects, mostly SVG-related, with
an emphasis in Batik. He is also an invited expert on the SVG Interest
Group.</p>
</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>
<p><a href="mailto:bill.haneman@ireland.sun.com">bill.haneman@ireland.sun.com</a></p>
<p>
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
<a href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap">GNOME
Accessibility Project</a>, 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.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>Vincent Hardy</dt>
<dd>
<p><a href="mailto:vincent.hardy@eng.sun.com">vincent.hardy@eng.sun.com</a></p>
<p>
Vincent is one of the founders of the SVG Batik project at Apache.
He is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems Inc., where he is
part of the XML technology center. Vincent represented 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.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>Stephane Hillion</dt>
<dd>
<p><a href="mailto:shillion@ilog.fr">shillion@ilog.fr</a></p>
<p>
Stephane is a software engineer at the Koala project, part of
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.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>Dean Jackson</dt>
<dd>
<p><a href="mailto:dean.jackson@cmis.csiro.au">dean.jackson@cmis.csiro.au</a></p>
<p>
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.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>Christophe Jolif</dt>
<dd>
<p><a href="mailto:cjolif@ilog.fr">cjolif@ilog.fr</a></p>
<p>
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 in the
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) W3C Working Group since 1999. He has
implemented SVG import and export features in ILOG JViews and is now
also working on the SVG Batik project at Apache.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>Thierry Kormann</dt>
<dd>
<p><a href="mailto:tkormann@ilog.fr">tkormann@ilog.fr</a></p>
<p>
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 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.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>Nicolas Socheleau</dt>
<dd>
<p><a href="mailto:nicolas.socheleau@bitflash.com">nicolas.socheleau@bitflash.com</a></p>
<p>
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 functionality and SVG DOM interface implementations.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>Emmanuel Tissandier</dt>
<dd>
<p><a href="mailto:tissandi@ilog.fr">tissandi@ilog.fr</a></p>
<p>
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.
</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
Bella Robinson implemented the SVG font support in Batik:
</p>
<dl>
<dt>Bella Robinson</dt>
<dd>
<p><a href="mailto:bella.robinson@cmis.csiro.au">bella.robinson@cmis.csiro.au</a></p>
<p>
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.
</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
In addition, <a href="mailto:James.Davidson@eng.sun.com">James
Davidson</a> and <a href="mailto:stefano@apache.org">Stefano
Mazzochi</a>, two Apache veterans who helped the Batik team start the
project at Apache, also have commit access to the Subversion repository.
</p>
</section>
<section id="contributors">
<title>Batik contributors</title>
<p>
The following people have contributed to Batik:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="mailto:andjelkovic.ivan@gmail.com">Ivan
Andjelkovic</a>—Google Summer of Code student who worked
on enhancements to the DOM Viewer window.
</li>
<li>
<a href="mailto:carnold@houston.rr.com">Curt
Arnold</a>—Contributed many bug reports and fixes.
</li>
<li>
<a href="mailto:r_diblasi@hotmail.com">Robert A.
DiBlasi</a>—Contributed a lot of feedback on the Batik
documentation and suggestions on how to improve it.
</li>
<li>
<a href="mailto:archie@dellroad.org">Archie
Cobbs</a>—Contributed a thread deadlocking fix.
</li>
<li>
<a href="mailto:Paul_Evenblij@nl.compuware.com">Paul
Evenblij</a>—Contributed an improvement to the way images are
handled by the SVGGraphics2D component. Also contributed bug fixes on
the SVGGraphics2D component.
</li>
<li>
<a href="mailto:pier.fumagalli@eng.sun.com">Pier
Fumagalli</a>—Helped with the Batik web site and mailing
lists.
</li>
<li>
<a href="mailto:herve.girod@club-internet.fr">Hervé
Girod</a>—Contributed many improvements to the WMF
transcoder.
</li>
<li>
<a href="mailto:Christophe.Held@sophia.inria.fr">Christophe
Held</a>—Contributed a math formula in SVG generated from
MathML.
</li>
<li>
<a href="mailto:tonny@kiyut.com">Tonny Kohar</a>—Contributed
a syntax highlight XML editor component for use in Squiggle.
</li>
<li>
<a href="mailto:webmaestro@mac.com">Clay Leeds</a>—Helped
getting Batik’s new site set up.
</li>
<li>
<a href="mailto:keiron@aftexsw.com">Keiron Liddle</a>—A
<a href="http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/">FOP</a> member who worked
on an SVG to PDF transcoder that is a part of FOP but works in the
Batik infrastructure.
</li>
<li>
<a href="mailto:jeremias@apache.org">Jeremias
Märki</a>—Another FOP member who contributed code to improve
compatibility with GNU Classpath.
</li>
<li>
<a href="mailto:john.morrison@uk.experian.com">John
Morrison</a>—Contributed a set of XSL stylesheets to generate
SVG charts, such as line graphs, bar charts or pie charts.
</li>
<li>
<a href="mailto:neumann@karto.baug.ethz.ch">Andreas
Neumann</a>—Contributed two SVG maps which
<a href="mailto:bert@w3.org">Bert Bos</a> has internationalized
(adding an English version to the original German text).
</li>
<li>
<a href="mailto:luano@asd.ie">Luan O’Carroll</a>—Contributed
the original WMF transcoder.
</li>
<li>
<a href="mailto:spei@cs.uiowa.edu">Sheng Pei</a>—Contributed
to filter support and the regard tool.
</li>
<li>
<a href="mailto:neeme.praks@one.ee">Neeme
Praks</a>—Contributed patches, feedback and scripts for
building charts from John Morrisson’s XSL stylesheets.
</li>
<li>
<a href="mailto:ruini@iki.fi">Henri Ruini</a>—Contributed to
a rewrite of the rasterizer application.
</li>
<li>
<a href="mailto:david@steadystate.co.uk">David
Schweinsberg</a>—Contributed the True Type Font to SVG Font
converter.
</li>
<li>
<a href="mailto:eric_suen_cn@hotmail.com">Eric Suen</a>—Tracked
down some memory leaks.
</li>
<li>
<a href="mailto:natalian@cs.brown.edu">Nicholas
Talian</a>—Contributed on gradients.
</li>
<li>
<a href="mailto:andres@onemileup.com">Andres
Toussaint</a>—Contributed SVGAnimatedPathData functionality.
</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="expertise">
<title>Areas of expertise</title>
<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>
<div class="expertise">
<table>
<tr>
<th/><th class="tick"><abbr title="Thomas DeWeese">TD</abbr></th><th class="tick"><abbr title="Cameron McCormack">CM</abbr></th><th class="tick"><abbr title="Dieter von Holten">DH</abbr></th><th class="tick"><abbr title="Helder Magalhães">HM</abbr></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="area">Team Contact</td>
<td>X</td><td/><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="area">Bridge</td>
<td/><td>X</td><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="area">Browser</td>
<td>X</td><td/><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="area">CSS</td>
<td>X</td><td>X</td><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="area">Documentation</td>
<td>X</td><td>X</td><td/><td>X</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="area">SVG DOM</td>
<td/><td>X</td><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="area">GVT Core</td>
<td>X</td><td/><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="area">GVT Filters</td>
<td>X</td><td/><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="area">GVT Renderer</td>
<td>X</td><td/><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="area">GVT Text</td>
<td>X</td><td/><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="area">SVGGraphics2D</td>
<td>X</td><td/><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="area">SMIL Animation</td>
<td/><td>X</td><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="area">Micro Parsers</td>
<td>X</td><td/><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="area">Rasterizer</td>
<td>X</td><td/><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="area">Scripting</td>
<td/><td>X</td><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="area">Swing Components</td>
<td>X</td><td/><td/><td/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="area">Test</td>
<td>X</td><td/><td>X</td><td>X</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</section>
</body>
</document>
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