Chamilo Credits

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Core developers

BeezNest Latino (ex Dokeos Latinoamérica) (2008-2011)
- Yannick Warnier (ywarnier@beeznest.org) - Lead developer
- Julio Allen Montoya Armas (gugli100@gmail.com) - Lead Latino developer
- Christian Fasanando (christian534@hotmail.com)
Independent (2008-2011)
- Juan Carlos Raña Trabado - considerable work on the wiki integration and improvements, and the FCKEditor/Mimetex extension as well as *many* FCKEditor's file manager and other modules improvements, as well as a continuous stream of recommendations that helped shape 1.8.5 and 1.8.6.*
- Ivan Tcholakov - various bugfixes in 1.8.6.*, very accurate bug reporting contributions and a considerable work in the integration of a new version of FCKEditor, along with a bunch of useful plugins and an exceptional work on internationalization
Dokeos (2004-2009)
- Thomas De Praetere (thomas.depraetere@dokeos.com) - Creator of Claroline (2000) and later Dokeos (2004)
- Arnaud Ligot (arnaud@cblue.be) - also independently, through CBlue (2010-2011)
- Noel Dieschburg (noel@cblue.be)
- Frédéric Burlet (fburlet@cblue.be)
- Toon Keppens (toon@develop-it.be)
- Luk Van Landuyt (luk@develop-it.be)
- Sebastian Wagner (seba.wagner@gmail.com)
- Julian Prud'homme (j.prudhomme@elixir-interactive.com)
- Eric Marguin (eric.marguin@elixir-interactive.com)
- Alexandre Pelissard (a.pellissard@elixir-interactive.com)
- Ravin Minocha (ravin@comprointertech.com)
- Priya Siani (priya@ballisticlearning.com)
- Denes Nagy (denes.nagy@dokeos.com)
- Olivier Brouckaert (oli.brouckaert@dokeos.com)
Ghent University (2004-2007)
- Patrick Cool (patrick.cool@ugent.be)
- Bert Vanderkimpen (bert.vanderkimpen@ugent.be)
- Toon Van Hoecke (toon.vanhoecke@UGent.be)
- René Haentjens (rene.haentjens@intec.ugent.be)
Hogeschool Gent (2004-2007)
- Bart Mollet (bart.mollet@hogent.be)

Quality Assurance

Yannick Warnier as QA coordinator
Noa Orizales, through numerous implementations in Spain
Hector Lacherre and colleagues from USIL, Lima
Carlos Vargas
Arthur Portugal
Ricardo Rodriguez

System performance

Arnaud Ligot
Jérôme Warnier
Ludwig Chauvin
Ludovic Gasc
Yannick Warnier - implementation of memcached and documentation + optimization guide

Developments

Announcement tool

First versions by

Pablo Rey (prey@cesga.es)
Roan Embrechts (roan.embrechts@vub.ac.be)

rewritten by

Patrick Cool (patrick.cool@ugent.be)
Frederik Vermeire

Agenda

Patrick Cool (patrick.cool@UGent.be)
Carlos Vargas (global agenda)
Yannick Warnier (web services)

Blog

Toon Keppens (toon@vi-host.net)
Kevin Van Den Haute (kevin@develop-it.be)

Course navigation menu

Sandra Mathijs
Roan Embrechts (roan.embrechts@vub.ac.be)
Wolfgang Schneider

Course copy

Bart Mollet (bart.mollet@hogent.be)
Yannick Warnier (yannick.warnier@beeznest.com)

Course Quota

Roan Embrechts (roan.embrechts@vub.ac.be)

Course validation optional feature

José Manuel Abuin Mosquera , 2010, Centro de Supercomputacion de Galicia (CESGA)
Bruno Rubio Gayo , 2010, CESGA
Ivan Tcholakov (technical adaptation for Chamilo 1.8.8), 2011

Chat

First version:
Olivier Brouckaert
Improvements:
Isaac Flores
Juan Carlos Raña (open in new window, smileys, ...)
Yannick Warnier

Database refactoring

Yannick Warnier (yannick.warnier@beeznest.com) (with thanks to many other contributors)

Document tool

First version:
Bert Vanderkimpen (bert.vanderkimpen@ugent.be)
Improvements:
*Many* contributors (too many to list, but they are all mentionned in this file)

Dropbox

Jan Bols (jan.bols@UGent.be)
Rene Haentjens (rene.haentjens@intec.UGent.be)
Patrick Cool (patrick.cool@UGent.be)

Extensions and plugins

Yannick Warnier (yannick.warnier@beeznest.com),
Patrick Cool (patrick.cool@UGent.be)
Many other contributors

Forum tool

First version:
Adapted from PHPBB 1.4 (http://www.phpbb.com)
Modifications: Patrick Cool (patrick.cool@ugent.be)
Julio Montoya Armas (gugli100@gmail.com)
Management of scoring of threads:
Christian Fasanando
Isaac Flores
Carlos Vargas

Full-text search

Initial version (based on MnoGoSearch):
Yannick Warnier
Second version (based on Xapian):
Diego Escalante Urrelo (+ occasional bugfixes)
Marco Villegas Vega (+ occasional bugfixes)

Groups

Bart Mollet (bart.mollet@hogent.be

HTML_QuickForm

Bart Mollet (bart.mollet@hogent.be)

Icons

Icons for the messages: confirmation, error, normal and warning
Icons used from the Crystal icon theme by Everaldo
http://linuxcult.com
Other icons: Nuvola

Interface and CSS

Julio Montoya Armas (gugli100@gmail.com)
Noa Orizales Iglesias (noa@contidosdixitais.com)
Sandra Matthys
Wolfgang Schneider (webmaster@bibelcenter.de)
Patrick Cool (patrick.cool@UGent.be)
Rudy Hanson (rudy@cblue.be)
Noel Dieschburg (noel@cblue.be)

Installation procedure

Olivier Brouckaert
Refactoring:
Evie Embrechts
Yannick Warnier (yannick.warnier@beeznest.com), including database upgrade mechanism

Learning Path & SCORM

Alpha version by:
Patrick Cool (patrick.cool@UGent.be)
First version by:
Denes Nagy (darkden@evk.bke.hu)
Dokeos 1.8 version by
Yannick Warnier (yannick.warnier@beeznest.com)
Eric Marguin
Julian Prud'homme

LDAP

Main code: University Jean Monnet of Saint Etienne
Updates and improvements:
Evie Embrechts
Yannick Warnier
Mustapha Alouani - Université Paris 1 (Sorbonne)

Link tool

Patrick Cool (patrick.cool@ugent.be)

Messages

Original code written by:
Facultad de Matematicas, UADY (México):
Díaz Braga Alan Israel (bafles2@hotmail.com)
Menéndez Domínguez Victor Hugo (mdoming@uady.mx)
Torre Díaz Manuel
Tuk Sulú Walter Lorenzo (walt_30_ 1@hotmail.com)
Vargas Palma Rubén (thiefdp@hotmail.com)
Dokeos 1.8 integration and refactoring:
Evie Embrechts
Julio Montoya Armas (gugli100@gmail.com)
Isaac Flores

Metadata

René Haentjens (rene.haentjens@intec.ugent.be)

My Agenda

Eric Remy
Toon Van Hoecke (toon.vanhoecke@ugent.be)
Patrick Cool (patrick.cool@ugent.be

PDF-files generation

Based on mPDF code library (http://mpdf.bpm1.com/). Main author: Ian N Back
Adaptation for Chamilo 1.8.x: Ivan Tcholakov

Platform administration

User management: Bart Mollet (bart.mollet@hogent.be)
Class management: Bart Mollet (bart.mollet@hogent.be)
Course management:
Platform announcements: Bart Mollet (bart.mollet@hogent.be)
Languages and platform settings (AWACS): Patrick Cool (patrick.cool@UGent.be)

Resource Linker

Patrick Cool (patrick.cool@ugent.be

Statistics tool and tracking (event-based)

Based on ezBoo (http://www.ezboo.com)
Sebastien Piraux (piraux_seb@hotmail.com)

Reporting (user-based)

Elixir Interactive http://www.elixir-interactive.com
Improvements:
Eric Marguin
Yannick Warnier
Julio Montoya through *many* revision cycles in Chamilo

Single DB customisation

Roger Hedlund (rhedlund@passagen.se)

Survey

Patrick Cool
Julio Montoya Armas (gugli100@gmail.com)
Yannick Warnier

Test / Quizz Tool

Olivier Brouckaert (oli.brouckaert@dokeos.com)
Denes Nagy (hotpotatoes integration)
Eric Marguin
Julian Prud'homme
Julio Montoya Armas (gugli100@gmail.com)

Wiki

First implementation as an extension (Cool Wiki): Patrick Cool
First integration into Dokeos/Chamilo and many improvements (including Google Maps integration): Juan Carlos Raña

Social Network

Thanks to Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima for the sponsoring of this development
Julio Montoya Armas (gugli100@gmail.com)
Isaac Flores
Christian Fasanando

Platform group tool

Thanks to Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima for the sponsoring of this development
Julio Montoya Armas (gugli100@gmail.com)
Christian Fasanando

User Image

Miguel (miguel@cesga.es)
Patrick Cool(patrick.cool@ugent.be)
Fixes and improvements:
Yannick Warnier
Christian Fasanando
Juan Carlos Raña

User tool, subscribe existing users

Elie Harfouche (elie at harfdesign dot com)
Roan Embrechts (roan.embrechts@vub.ac.be)
Bart Mollet (bart.mollet@hogent.be)
Julio Montoya Armas (gugli100@gmail.com)

(un)zip

PclZip library - Vincent Blavet (http://www.phpconcept.net)
Integration of adapted new versions:
Yannick Warnier
Ivan Tcholakov

Virtual course support / Combined courses

Roan Embrechts (roan.embrechts@vub.ac.be)
Bart Mollet (bart.mollet@hogent.be)
(with thanks to Toon Van Hoecke and Olivier Cauberghe from Ghent University)

Web adjustable (admin) settings

brainstorming by:
Jan Bols
Patrick Cool (patrick.cool@ugent.be)
Roan Embrechts (roan.embrechts@vub.ac.be)
Toon Van Hoecke (toon.vanhoecke@ugent.be)
Implementation by:
Patrick Cool (patrick.cool@ugent.be)

Who is online in portal/course/session

Patrick Cool (patrick.cool@UGent.be)
Eric Marguin
Yannick Warnier
Social network improvements: Julio Montoya Armas (gugli100@gmail.com)

Web services

Yannick Warnier
Christian Fasanando

Conectivity with CMS (Drupal, Joomla)

Fernando P. García
Marco Villegas Vega
Yannick Warnier
Furio Petrossi (for the hint on JFusion)
Carlos Vargas (for extending the JFusion plugin to Dokeos 1.8.6)

Online Authoring

HTML Editor

First integration: HTMLArea
Second integration: FCKEditor
Update to FCKEditor 2.6.2: Julio Montoya Armas(gugli100@gmail.com)
Update to FCKEditor 2.6.6 and addition of other plugins: Ivan Tcholakov
ASCIIMathML-based formula rendering and ASCIIsvg-based mathematical graphics:
- Peter Jipsen
- David Lippman
- Mauno Korpelainen for extending the symbol tables within the script ASCIIMathML.js
- Ivan Tcholakov for porting code in Chamilo LMS
- Furio Petrossi for advocacy, research and recommendations

Drawing tool

SVG-edit integration: Juan Carlos Raña Trabado

Voice generator

Integration audio services from Google, Pediaphon and vozMe: Juan Carlos Raña Trabado

Bitmap image editor

Integration of Pixlr image editing services and photo retouching: Juan Carlos Raña Trabado

Voice record

Nanogong integration: Juan Carlos Raña Trabado

Translations

There are too much translators to list them all.
Please see http://www.chamilo.com/DLTT/ to see a list of the translators.

Documentation

Arnaud Ligot
Jerome Warnier
Andrew Lynn (alynn@strathclyde.ac.be)
Emmanuel Pecquet (emmanuel.pecquet@wanadoo.fr)
Nikolai Stiehl (nikolai.stiehl@web.de)
Isabel Deprez
Philippe Danckaert
Slawomir Gurdala
Dalton Piegas Simoni
Maria Jose Rodriges Malmierca
Roan Embrechts (roan.embrechts@vub.ac.be)
Hugues Peeters
René Haentjens
Yannick Warnier
Arthur Portugal
Sergio Infante Montero, for technical documentation translation to Spanish

Thanks go also (in no particular order) to

Hubert Borderiou for various bugfixes
Philippe Béranger
Thomas Corthals (forum: Turboke)
Dietrich Van Damme (images)
Koen Heirbaut (xhtml)
Domingos de Freitas (forum: domifreitas)
Emmanuel Pecquet (forum: Emmanuel)
Furio Petrossi (forum: petrossi)
Mark (forum: Mark111)
Pablo Rey (prey@cesga.es)
Wolfgang Schneider (webmaster@bibelcenter.de) for bug reports from 1.6 to 1.8.8 and help with early CSS
Christophe Gesché (gesche@ipm.ucl.ac.be) aka Moosh
Hugues Peeters (peeters@ipm.ucl.ac.be)
Paolo Mioni
Diederik De Deckere
Eric Remy
Roel Visseren
Michel Moreau-Belliard for his supervision on dynamic LDAP import tool
Mustapha Alouani for his work on dynamic LDAP import tool
Simon Zalar for a patch to FCKeditor 2.2 allowing linking in FF3
Juan Valenzuela, for patch suggestions for random tests in D.1.8.6
Daniel Enrique Perales Gomez, for various bugfixes in various tools
Arthur Jonathan Portugal Guerrero, for his patient work on the technical documentation and his thorough testing of 1.8.6 features and implementing the first browser-based tests set
Michela Karina Mosquera Guardamino, for helping improve the visibility of Chamilo (and Dokeos before that) in the Latin American area, patiently answering crazy amounts of information requests and organizing great community events (Chamilo P@rty, Chamilo Users Day Perú, ...)
Jhon Rhoos Hinojosa Portuguez, for various bugfixes in 1.8.6
Carlos Vargas (litox84@hotmail.com), for a huge amount of bugfixes in 1.8.6
Jan Derriks- various bugfixes in 1.8.7 and very accurate bug reporting contributions from 1.8.7 to 1.8.8
Ronny Velasquez, for a series of bugfixes and improvements in 1.8.6
Ricardo Rodriguez, for implementing the first set of unit tests in 1.8.6, and manual testing and reporting
Franco Cedillo, for minor bugfixes in 1.8.6
Ruben Pereira, Ana Elena Olivera and all the kids from the Joaquin Sant'Anna school for being an inspiration to all of us.
Wolfgang Schneider for various bugfixes in various tools
Carlos Brolo for reporting bugs for 1.8.7
Hubert Borderiou - various bugfixes in 1.8.7 and very accurate bug reporting contributions
David Auzeine- various bugfixes in 1.8.7
Anna Frovola for reporting bugs for 1.8.7
Omar Arino (omar.arino _at__ linuxdojo.com.ar) - various bugfixes in 1.8.7.1
Claire Thibault (claire.thibault _at__ ac-orleans-tours.fr) - bugfix in 1.8.7.1
Jean Robert Opgenort (jeanrobert __a_t_ opgenort dot nl) - very accurate score tracking bug reports in 1.8.7.1
Anaël Boulier (intern at http://www.2i2l.fr), for his excelent work of writing user documentation in French for 1.8.7
Alberto Torreblanca for help fixing bugs during code sprint 2011-01-16 and learning path mini-panel implementation
Joel Porras for help fixing bugs during code sprint 2011-01-16
Simon Legner for improvements suggestions (first one being #1538)
Jean Karim Bockstael, for patch to avoid hardcoded db_glue (commit 13878)
Marco Sousa, for additional reports elements (and translation to Brazilian) for 1.8.8
Olivier Corre, Lily Ni and Thorsten Giertz for translation to Simplified Chinese and several bug reports to 1.8.8 and 1.8.8.2
Alain Deschênes, for numerous bug reports to 1.8.8
Peter Van den Broek, for bug reports to 1.8.8
Dominique Colombani, for bug report to 1.8.8
Hubert Borderiou, for bug reports to 1.8.8 and social marketing
Jose Ramos Garces, for bug reports to 1.8.8
André Boivin, for considerable number of bug reports and patches to HotPotatoes system
Stéphane Lofreda, for bug reports to 1.8.8
Marko Kastelic, for bug reports to 1.8.8
Jorge Frisancho, USIL, for several small improvements to usability in 1.8.8
Jonas Fangstrom, for bug reports to 1.8.8
Jeroen Brussich, for bug reports to 1.8.8
Antonio Salinas, for bug reports to 1.8.8
Jose Abuin Mosquera, for bug reports to 1.8.8
Tony Taylor, for bug reports to 1.8.8
Omar Arino, for bug reports to 1.8.8
Cécile Deruy, for bug reports to 1.8.8
Simon Legner, for bug reports to 1.8.8
Patrick Roth, for both reporting bugs and bringing vision to the project
Nick Van Loocke, for bug reports to 1.8.8
Erik Das (FKS), for bug reports to 1.8.8
All the supporting parents, partners, children, friends, colleagues and sometimes students, of the very special geeks that we are, for their continous support and inspiration

Contributing institutions (only registered since 2010)

These institutions have either contributed to the Chamilo project directly or through hiring services to contribute to Chamilo from an official provider:

Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima, Peru
Universidad Tecnológica del Perú, Lima, Peru
Universidad de Tocantins, Tocantins, Brazil
Gobierno Regional del Callao, Callao, Peru
EPSU, Genève, Suisse
Formascience, Strasbourg, France
IPYS, Lima, Peru

Removed developments

Rich Text Editor (WYSIWYG html editor), Kevin Roth
now removed and replaced by HTMLarea
HTMLarea (WYSIWYG html editor)
now removed and replaced by FCKeditor
Table of contents
now removed, replaced by learning path