The Aperture Team

Did you ever wonder who drives aperture? Is this list too textual for you?
First of all, Aperture is supported by Aduna Software, DFKI GmbH, and the NEPOMUK EU project, for which we are very thankful.

In alphabetical order:

Christiaan Fluit

is a: Developer
works for: Aduna
Skills: works on Aduna AutoFocus and AutoFocus Server, parts of which where used to bootstrap the Aperture project. Worked on general architecture, FileSystem-, Web- and ImapCrawler, MIME type identifier, security facilities and most of the Extractor implementations.
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Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes

is a: Researcher
works for: DFKI
http://gromgull.net
Skills: Good question, I do a bit of everything. I did the few broken MacOSX bits.

Antoni Myłka

is a: Student
is a: freelance contributor
studies at: AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow, Poland
skills: (tries to) squash bugs and add new features to Aperture
history: did an 11-month internship at DFKI between October 2006 and August 2007, worked on Aperture (ICAL crawler, port to RDF2Go, OSGI setup), coordinated the development of NIE and incorporating it in Aperture
note: my name is Myłka, that's not L but Ł, an L with a slanted dash in the middle, it is pronounced the same as english 'w' in 'week'

Leo Sauermann

is a: Scientist
works for: gnowsis.com - the latest and greatest Semantic Desktop startup, before: DFKI
blogs at: leobard.twoday.net
skills: did implement the gnowsis project, a predecessor of aperture, contributed to the architecture and MS-Outlook crawler.
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