People
Note: This is an incomplete list, a large number of people have contributed to the project.
Ian Clarke
Freenet is based on Ian's paper "A Distributed Decentralised Information
Storage and Retrieval System". Ian started the Freenet Project around July of
1999, and continues to coordinate the project. In his day job, Ian is the
founder and CEO of Thoof.
Matthew Toseland
Matthew has been working on Freenet since before the 0.5 release. His work
and that of others has resulted in dramatic improvements to the performance
and stability of the network.
Oskar Sandberg
Oskar was also one of the earliest contributors to the Freenet project, and
continues to play a core role in ongoing development.
Florent Daignière
Florent has been our system administrator since around the time 0.7 was started,
and has helped on other matters like the current installer.
Scott Miller
Scott is responsible for the implementation of much of the cryptography
elements within Freenet.
Steven Starr
Steven helps with administration of Freenet Project Inc, and is an advisor
to the project on business and publicity matters.
Michael Rogers
Michael has mostly contributed detailed simulations as part of the Google
Summer of Code. He has been helpful in designing the
new transport layer.
Dave Baker
Dave's main contribution has been Freemail,
his Summer of Code project to build a working email-over-freenet system, as well as some
debugging and core work in various places.
Julien Cornuwel
Julien (batosai) is responsible for the French translation of Freenet's user
interface, who has also worked on a French
help site for Freenet.
Robert Hailey
Robert has helped improve the speed and security of Freenet by finding two
major bugs, and has recently contributed some code.
David Sowder
David (Zothar) has helped the Freenet project as time permits and interest
directs, including configuration, statistics and peer management via FCP,
the FProxy stats page and Node 2 Node Messages (N2NM/N2NTMs).
And hundreds of others, who either haven't asked to be added here, who prefer to remain nameless, or who we just haven't got around to thanking. Not to mention thousands of users, testers, and donors!