Gallery:Gallery:Team

Gallery is primarily developed, maintained, supported, documented, and promoted by a core team. These team members make significant contributions to the project and are responsible in no small part for its continued success. If you're really interested, you can see some more pictures of the team! Also see who works on which parts of the code.

Current Team Member Profiles

The Gallery team consists of a diverse bunch of people that for some reason work together to bring you, the user, the best possible photo sharing web application available. The team is composed of several teams that all work together: Gallery 2.x, Gallery 1.x, Gallery Support, Gallery Remote, Affiliates, and Gallery Website. (There are also the embedding and integration developers which you can find here.) The people behind Gallery are, in no particular order:

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Bharat Mediratta

IRC Nick: bharat

Location: Menlo Park, California

Day Job: Staff Software Engineer, Google

Teams: Gallery 2.x, Website

Gallery Responsibilities: Principal Developer, Project co-founder, Website team lead

Personal Site: mediratta.net

Description:

Random "facts":

not a traditional Indian

a pirate

the straw that stirs the drink

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Alan Harder

IRC Nick: mindless
Location: Sunnyvale, California
Day Job: Software Engineer at Sun Microsystems
Teams: Gallery 2.x, Website
Gallery Responsibilities: Principal Developer, Website Developer

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Andy Staudacher

IRC Nick: valiant/andy_st (sf.net)
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Day Job: Graduate Student in Electrical Engineering at the ETH Zurich
Teams: Gallery 2.x, Documentation, Support
Gallery Responsibilities: Principal Developer, Integrations, G2 Forum moderator

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Chris Kelly

IRC Nick: ckdake
On Codex: ckdake
Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Day Job: Graduate Student at Georgia Tech doing research for RNOC.
Teams: Gallery 2.x, Gallery 1.x
Gallery Responsibilities: Project Manager (1 and 2), Gallery 1 Releases, Pestering people, etc
Personal Site: ckdake.com
Description:
Random "facts":

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Felix Rabinovich

IRC Nick: virshu
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Day Job: Development manager at a biotech company
Teams: Gallery 2.x
Gallery Responsibilities: Developer, nightly snapshot maintainer, Russian forum support

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József R.Nagy

IRC Nick: joe7
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Day Job: Working for Pro-G Media Ltd. Graduated from Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
Teams: Gallery 2.x, Support
Gallery Responsibilities: Developer, Support
Description:
Random "facts":
a complex piece of engineering
virtually living in North American pacific time
the welcomebot today

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Jens Tkotz

IRC Nick: Tim_j
Location: Germany
Teams: Gallery 1.x
Gallery Responsibilities: Developer, Gallery 1.x Team Lead

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Jay Rossiter

IRC Nick: Signe

Location: Portland, Oregon, USA

Day Job: Tech Lead/Software Engineer Pheedo

Teams: Gallery 2.x

Gallery Responsibilities: Development (on the odd chance I have a few minutes to do it)

Personal Site: cothlamadh.net and Chimeric Visions Photography

Description:

Random "facts"

I'm frequently "here", but absent.

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Christian Mohn

IRC Nick: h0bbel
Location: Bergen, Norway
Day Job: IT-Manager Seatrans AS
Teams: Support
Gallery Responsibilities: Support Team lead, Documentation lead, Quality Assurance/Testing lead (Paid) Support, and misc. other tasks.
Personal Site: h0bbel.p0ggel.org and opticalpork.com
Description:
Random "facts":
glad he didn't get russian underwear for christmas
glad MichelleC didn't grab his blocks
a bit out of the loop
an edge case

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Dave Moore

IRC Nick: floridave
Location: Edmonton, Canada
Day Job: Engineering technologist, The amazing Persona
Teams: Support
Gallery Responsibilities: (Paid) Support, testing, forum moderation & other tasks.
Personal Site: Langleycom.com & Gallery2.ca
Description:
Random "facts":
Use to own a midget but now drives a Sienna
Likes Guinness but will settle for most other beer,
Has two kids, but both were born in two different countries,
Has lived in four countries and eight cities, but still lives where he grew up.

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Donald Webster

IRC Nick: fryfrog
Teams: Support
Gallery Responsibilities: Forum Moderator, Support

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Michael Schultheiss

IRC Nick: schultmc
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Day Job: Unix Systems Specialist University Information Technology Services, Indiana University
Teams: Support
Gallery Responsibilities: Debian packages, NPO assistance, Documentation, Forum Moderator, Support, and misc. other tasks.
Personal Site: www.michaelandkrissy.com
Description:
Random "facts":
normally the winner.
hella hot.

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Dariush (Dari) Molavi

IRC Nick: dmolavi
Location: Washington Township, New Jersey, USA
Day Job: Senior Engineer L-3 Communications Systems - Communications Systems East
Teams: Support
Gallery Responsibilities: Integration work for phpnuke, phpBB2, phpBB3.
Personal Site: http://www.themolavis.com
Description:
Random "facts":
confused
gonna cap yo ass
hardcore
happy for team Corvette

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Tim Almdal

IRC Nick: talmdal
Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Day Job: Enterprise Architect
Teams: Gallery 2.x
Gallery Responsibilities: Developer
Personal Site: www.timalmdal.com
Random "facts":
confused as well
still looking
becoming more impressed with safari

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Jozef Selesi

IRC Nick: jozefs
Location: Novi Sad, Serbia
Day Job: CompSci student at the University of Novi Sad
Teams: Gallery 2.x
Gallery Responsibilities: Developer

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Katrin Goetzer

IRC Nick: katrinska
Teams: Gallery 2.x
Gallery Responsibilities: Usability Analyst

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Chad Kieffer

IRC Nick: thumb/thumb70
Location: Santa Fe, NM, US
Day Job: Developer/DBA
Teams: Gallery 2.x, Website
Site: 2tbsp.com
Gallery Responsibilities: User Interface Developer, Website UI/Theme Developer, Documentation

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Pierre-Luc Paour

IRC Nick: paour
Teams: Gallery Remote
Gallery Responsibilities: Developer, Remote Team Lead

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Michael Kleinert

IRC Nick: lbeachmike
Teams: Affiliates
Gallery Responsibilities: Affiliate Team Lead

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Jesse Mullan

IRC Nick: jmullan
Teams: Gallery 2.x
Gallery Responsibilities: Developer, Snapshot Page Maintainer

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Robert Balousek

IRC Nick: volksport
Teams: Gallery 2.x
Gallery Responsibilities: Project Manager, Developer

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Douglas Cau

IRC Nick: pelle
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Day job: Student at the Royal Institute of Technology
Teams: Gallery 2.x
Gallery Responsibilities: Developer

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Kevin Nehls

IRC Nick: nivekiam
Teams: Support
Gallery Responsibilities: Forum moderator, Support

Contributors (both current and historical)

There are many other folks who have made contributions to this project. It's hard to list them all here, but we're going to try to list everybody who has made what we consider a major contribution to Gallery on this page. If you have been left out or misrepresented, please let us know!

Also see the special page for Gallery 1 Credits.

Adam Lazur - G1 code contributor, former Debian patch maintainer

Adrian Chung - Geeklog integration

Amedeo Paglione - Developer, Mac Guy

Andrew Lindeman (alindeman) - Forum moderator / helper

Anthony Moulen - G1 code contributor

Ariel Shkedi - G1 code contributor

Beckett Madden-Woods (beckettmw) - Developer

Benjamin Sadaba - G1 code contributor

Chad Kieffer - G2 User Interface Designer

Chetan Sarva - G2 snapshot page maintainer

Chris Ricker - G1 code contributor

Chris Schwerdt - Developer, Remote protocol

Chris Smith - Project co-founder, principle G1 UI designer and developer

Dana Powers - G1 code contributor

David Weaver - G2 project manager

Demian Johnston - G1 code contributor

Dolan Halbrook - Gallery Remote developer

Don Seiler - G2 developer

Dr. Tilman Bubeck - G1 code contributor

Ed Wilts - Significant user and developer support (forums and mailing list)

Eelco Brolman - G1 code contributor

Ernesto Baschny - G2 developer

Gaile Elliott - Documentation Team Lead

Ioana Ciocanescu - G2 code contributor

Jacob Redding - G1 code contributor

Javier Mezquita - G1 Multilanguage version

Jerome Rannikko - G2 code contributor

Joan McGalliard - Developer

JoEllen Drazan (JadeDragon/JadeaDragon) - Skins developer

Johannes Schmittat - G2 code contributor

John Kirkland - Developer

Jon Huang - User Interface Designer

Jonas Forsberg - G2 code contributor

Robert Heel - Assistance sorting through the RFE Database

John L. Hughes - Geeklog integration

John W. Holmes - G1 code contributor

Joseph D. Scheve - G1 code contributor

Ken Frank - G1 code contributor

Larry Menard - G2: added DB2 support and contributed several DB2 UDFs

Markus Illenseer - G1 code contributor, German forum moderator, significant user support, User guide contributor

Matthew McEachen - G1 contributor

Matthew Miller - G2 code contributor

Matt Reynolds - User guide contributor

Nelson Pereira - G1 French translation

Rob Lingle - G1 contributor

Ross Reyman - G2 User Interface Designer

Sammy Spets - G1 code contributor

Santiago Amposta - G1 Multilanguage version

Scott Gartner - Developer, User Interface Designer, Localization

Sebastian Bergmann - Significant user and developer support (forums and mailing list)

Sebastian Eichner - G2 code contributor

Stefan Ioachim - G2 code contributor

Stephen Jones - Significant user support

Steve Lacy - G1 code contributor

Tony Mayer - G1 and G2 Graphic design

Troy Edwards - G1 code contributor, significant user support

Wade Lloyd - Customization forum moderator, Owner of Customization section of User guide, G1 code contributor

Would you like to join the team?

We welcome new members to the Gallery team. In the past, we have been slow to include others, mainly due to our lack of organization. We have a new initiative however, to add a little structure to our development process. The main goal here is to make it possible to grow the team without fragmenting the project.

Because the project is not strictly managed we really like to get to know someone before actually adding them to the development team. And by this I mean getting a sense of their motivations with regards to Gallery and their sensibilities. We are by no means snobs. Being an excellent programmer is one thing, but getting along with our development style is very important.

The best way to become a core team member is to start by contributing in the forums, joining #gallery on irc.freenode.net and the gallery-devel mailing list to join the discussion. We promote from within so as we recognize your talent and dedication to the project we'll ask you to step up and do more. If you continue to be interested, motivated, and a good fit with the team socially then we'll be happy to have you as a core team member. Be aware that we have very high standards for core team members and we expect them to contribute at least 5-10 hours a week to working on the project.

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