;; People in this list have their individual links from the main page,
;; or from the `Legion' page. If they have an image, it should be
-;; named after the CAR of the list element (baw -> baw.xpm).
+;; named after the CAR of the list element (baw -> baw.png).
;;
;; If you add to this list, you'll want to update
;; `about-maintainer-info' (and maybe `about-hackers'.
'((ajc "Andrew Cosgriff" "ajc@bing.wattle.id.au")
(baw "Barry Warsaw" "bwarsaw@python.org")
(bw "Bob Weiner" "weiner@altrasoft.com")
+ (chr "Christian Nybø" "chr@mediascience.no")
(cthomp "Chuck Thompson" "cthomp@xemacs.org")
(dmoore "David Moore" "dmoore@ucsd.edu")
(dkindred "Darrell Kindred" "dkindred@cmu.edu")
(dv "Didier Verna" "verna@inf.enst.fr")
(hniksic "Hrvoje Niksic" "hniksic@srce.hr")
(jareth "Jareth Hein" "jareth@camelot.co.jp")
- (jason "Jason Mastaler" "jason@mastaler.com")
+ (jason "Jason Mastaler" "jason@xemacs.org")
(jens "Jens Lautenbacher" "jens@lemcbed.lem.uni-karlsruhe.de")
(jmiller "Jeff Miller" "jmiller@smart.net")
(juhp "Jens-Ulrik Holger Petersen" "petersen@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp")
(slb "SL Baur" "steve@xemacs.org")
(stig "Jonathan Stigelman" "stig@hackvan.com")
(stigb "Stig Bjorlykke" "stigb@tihlde.hist.no")
- (thiessel "Marcus Thiessel" "thiessel@rhrk.uni-kl.de")
+ (thiessel "Marcus Thiessel" "marcus_thiessel@hp.com")
(vladimir "Vladimir Ivanovic" "vladimir@mri.com")
(wing "Ben Wing" "ben@xemacs.org")
(wmperry "William Perry" "wmperry@aventail.com"))
(defvar about-url-alist
'((ajc . "http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~ajc/")
(altrasoft . "http://www.altrasoft.com/")
+ (ben . "http://www.666.com/ben/")
+ (ben-xemacs . "http://www.666.com/xemacs/")
(baw . "http://www.python.org/~bwarsaw/")
(cc-mode . "http://www.python.org/ftp/emacs/")
+ (chr . "http://www.xemacs.org/faq/")
(dkindred . "http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/dkindred/me.html")
(dmoore . "http://oj.egbt.org/dmoore/")
(jason . "http://www.mastaler.com/")
(let* ((emacs-short-version (format "%d.%d"
emacs-major-version
emacs-minor-version))
- (emacs-about-version (format "version %s; Apr 1998"
+ (emacs-about-version (format "version %s; Aug 1998"
emacs-short-version)))
(widget-insert (about-center emacs-about-version))
(widget-create 'link :help-echo "The latest NEWS of XEmacs"
(if (memq (device-class)
'(color grayscale))
"" "m")
- ".xpm")
+ ".png")
(locate-data-directory "photos")))
(data nil))
- (unless (file-exists-p file)
- ;; Maybe the file is compressed?
- (setq file (concat file ".Z"))
- (if (file-exists-p file)
- ;; Decompress it.
- (condition-case nil
- (let ((buffer (get-buffer-create " *image*")))
- (unwind-protect
- (save-excursion
- (message "Uncompressing image...")
- (set-buffer buffer)
- (erase-buffer)
- (let ((coding-system-for-read 'binary)
- (coding-system-for-write 'binary))
- (insert-file-contents-literally file)
- (call-process-region (point-min) (point-max)
- "zcat" t t nil)
- (setq data
- (buffer-substring (point-min) (point-max))))
- (message "Uncompressing image... done"))
- (kill-buffer buffer)))
- (error (setq data 'error)))
- (setq file nil)))
(setq glyph
(cond ((stringp data)
(make-glyph
- (if (featurep 'xpm)
- `([xpm :data ,data]
+ (if (featurep 'png)
+ `([png :data ,data]
[string :data "[Image]"])
`([string :data "[Image]"]))))
((eq data 'error)
(make-glyph [string :data "[Error]"]))
(file
(make-glyph
- (if (featurep 'xpm)
- `([xpm :file ,file]
+ (if (featurep 'png)
+ `([png :file ,file]
[string :data "[Image]"])
`([string :data "[Image]"]))))
(t
Volunteer.\n"))
(hniksic
(widget-insert "\
-Hrvoje is currently a student at the Faculty of Electrical
-Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, Croatia. He works part-time
-at SRCE, where he helps run the network machines. In his free time he
-is helping develop free software (especially XEmacs, as well as GNU
-software) and is writing his own -- he has written a small network
-mirroring utility Wget, see ")
- (about-url-link 'wget "Download Wget")
- (widget-insert ".\n"))
+Hrvoje is a student at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and
+Computing in Zagreb, Croatia, working part-time at system administration
+at SRCE. His hobby is hacking free software, particularly XEmacs and
+GNU Wget, the latter being his very own creation.
+
+His contribution to XEmacs consists of a multitude of hours spent
+adding new features and bugs, and fixing old ones. He dreams of
+writing a home page.\n"))
(wing
(widget-insert
"\
-I'm not a thug -- I just play one on video.
-My roommate says I'm a San Francisco \"Mission Critter\".\n\n"
- (about-with-face "Gory stuff follows:" 'italic)
- "\n
-In 1992 I left a stuffy East-Coast university, set out into the real
-world, and ended up a co-founder of Pearl Software. As part of this
-company, I became the principal architect of Win-Emacs, a port of
-Lucid Emacs to Microsoft Windows and Windows NT (for more info, e-mail
-to info@pearlsoft.com).
+I began my Emacs life in 1992 as the co-founder of the now defunct
+Pearl Software. As part of this company, I became the principal
+architect of Win-Emacs, an early port of Lucid Emacs to Microsoft
+Windows and Windows NT.
Since April 1993, I've worked on XEmacs as a contractor for various
companies, changing hats faster than Ronald Reagan's hair color (oops,
manual), and being a general nuisance ... er, brainstormer for many of
the new features of XEmacs.
-Recently I took a job at Dimension X, where I'm working on a
-Java-based toolkit for developing VRML applications.\n"))
+Alas, life has not been good to me recently. This former San Francisco
+\"Mission Critter\" was exiled to \"Stroller Valley\" and, after a brief
+stint developing a Java-based VRML toolkit for the now also defunct
+Dimension X, I developed insidious hand and neck problems, and I was
+forced to quit working. Since then, I have been learning how to interact
+with the computer by using foot pedals and by dictating text to other
+people. Recently I completed Architecting XEmacs, a web site about the
+future of XEmacs.\n\n")
+ (widget-insert "Architecting XEmacs: ")
+ (about-url-link 'ben-xemacs "Find the miracles in store for XEmacs")
+ (widget-insert "\nBen's home page: ")
+ (about-url-link 'ben "Visit Ben's page")
+ (widget-insert "\n"))
(cthomp
(widget-insert "\
Chuck, through being in the wrong place at the right time, has gotten
system written in Modula3:\n")
(about-url-link 'marcpa "Visit POWER 911")
(widget-insert "\
-Previously, I worked at Softimage Inc., now a Microsoft company
+\n\nPreviously, I worked at Softimage Inc., now a Microsoft company
\(eeekkk!), as a UNIX system administrator. This is where I've been
converted to NT.
(widget-insert ".\n"))
(thiessel
(widget-insert "\
-On May 1, 1996 he started working at University of Kaiserslautern in
-the field of computer aided analog circuit design. His
-responsibilities include the development and design of a CAD-Tool for
-analog integrated circuits with special emphasis on distributed
-software concepts.
+Worked at University of Kaiserslautern where he took part in the
+development and design of a CAD framework for analog integrated
+circuits with special emphasis on distributed software concepts. He
+has now joined HP as technical consultant.
-When all the daily hacking is done he tries to take care of XEmacs
+For XEmacs he does beta testing and tries to take care of XEmacs
website at ")
(about-url-link 'xemacs "Visit XEmacs web site")
(widget-insert ".\n"))
Roman history and enjoys making trips to Italy, where he was born, and
seeing the sights")
(widget-insert ".\n"))
+ (chr
+ (widget-insert "\
+Maintainer of the XEmacs FAQ and proud author of `zap-up-to-char'.
+
+Christian is a student at the Norwegian School of Economics and
+Business Administration in Bergen, Norway. He used to work for an
+internet startup called New Media Science, doing scripting and
+violation of HTML DTD's. After graduation, spring 1999, he'll be
+looking for a job involving lisp programming, French and Russian.")
+ (widget-insert ".\n"))
))
;; Setup the buffer for a maintainer.
(format "<%s>\n%s\n" address shortinfo))))
(defun about-hackers (&rest ignore)
- (unless (about-get-buffer "*About Hackers*")
+ (unless (about-get-buffer "*About Contributors*")
(let ((title "Other Contributors to XEmacs"))
(widget-insert
(about-center title)
Originator and maintainer of the gnus.org domain.\n")
(about-show-linked-info 'jmiller "\
Beta tester and last hacker of calendar.\n")
+ (about-show-linked-info 'chr "\
+Maintainer of the XEmacs FAQ and proud author of `zap-up-to-char'.\n")
(flet ((print-short (name addr &optional shortinfo)
(concat (about-with-face name 'italic)
(about-tabs name)
(print-short "Michael Guenther" "michaelg@igor.stuttgart.netsurf.de")
(print-short "Dipankar Gupta" "dg@hplb.hpl.hp.com")
(print-short "Markus Gutschke" "gutschk@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE")
- (print-short "Kai Haberzettl" "khaberz@privat.circular.de")
+ (print-short "Kai Haberzettl" "khaberz@synnet.de")
(print-short "Adam Hammer" "hammer@cs.purdue.edu")
(print-short "Magnus Hammerin" "magnush@epact.se")
(print-short "ChangGil Han" "cghan@phys401.phys.pusan.ac.kr")
(print-short "Gregor Kennedy" "gregork@dadd.ti.com")
(print-short "Michael Kifer" "kifer@cs.sunysb.edu")
(print-short "Yasuhiko Kiuchi" "kiuchi@dsp.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp")
- (print-short "Greg Klanderman" "greg@alphatech.com")
+ (print-short "Greg Klanderman" "greg.klanderman@alum.mit.edu")
(print-short "Valdis Kletnieks" "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu")
(print-short "Rob Kooper" "kooper@cc.gatech.edu")
(print-short "Peter Skov Knudsen" "knu@dde.dk")
(print-short "Maximilien Lincourt" "max@toonboom.com")
(print-short "Mats Larsson" "Mats.Larsson@uab.ericsson.se")
(print-short "Simon Leinen" "simon@instrumatic.ch")
- (print-short "Carsten Leonhardt" "leo@arioch.tng.oche.de")
+ (print-short "Carsten Leonhardt" "leo@arioch.oche.de")
(print-short "James LewisMoss" "moss@cs.sc.edu")
(print-short "Mats Lidell" "mats.lidell@contactor.se")
(print-short "Matt Liggett" "mliggett@seven.ucs.indiana.edu")
(print-short "Andy Norman" "ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com")
(print-short "Joe Nuspl" "nuspl@sequent.com")
(print-short "Kim Nyberg" "kny@tekla.fi")
- (print-short "Christian Nybø" "chr@mediascience.no")
(print-short "Kevin Oberman" "oberman@es.net")
(print-short "David Ofelt" "ofelt@getalife.Stanford.EDU")
(print-short "Alexandre Oliva" "oliva@dcc.unicamp.br")
(print-short "Frederic Poncin" "fp@info.ucl.ac.be")
(print-short "E. Rehmi Post" "rehmi@asylum.sf.ca.us")
(print-short "Martin Pottendorfer" "Martin.Pottendorfer@aut.alcatel.at")
- (print-short "Colin Rafferty" "craffert@ml.com")
+ (print-short "Colin Rafferty" "colin@xemacs.org")
(print-short "Rick Rankin" "Rick_Rankin-P15254@email.mot.com")
(print-short "Paul M Reilly" "pmr@pajato.com")
(print-short "Jack Repenning" "jackr@sgi.com")
(print-short "Cotton Seed" "cottons@cybercom.net")
(print-short "Axel Seibert" "seiberta@informatik.tu-muenchen.de")
(print-short "Odd-Magne Sekkingstad" "oddms@ii.uib.no")
+ (print-short "Gregory Neil Shapiro" "gshapiro@sendmail.org")
(print-short "Justin Sheehy" "justin@linus.mitre.org")
(print-short "John Shen" "zfs60@cas.org")
(print-short "Murata Shuuichirou" "mrt@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp")
(print-short "Peter B. West" "p.west@uq.net.au")
(print-short "Rod Whitby" "rwhitby@asc.corp.mot.com")
(print-short "Rich Williams" "rdw@hplb.hpl.hp.com")
+ (print-short "Raymond Wiker" "raymond@orion.no")
(print-short "Peter Windle" "peterw@SDL.UG.EDS.COM")
(print-short "David C Worenklein" "dcw@gcm.com")
(print-short "Takeshi Yamada" "yamada@sylvie.kecl.ntt.jp")