Contributors

KStars is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), Version 2.

Original Authors:

Jason Harris <kstars AT 30doradus DOT org>, Original Author
Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja AT ikarustech DOT com>, Maintainer, Major code contributions, INDI/Ekos

Contributors:

Akarsh Simha <akarsh DOT simha AT kdemail DOT net>, Major Code contributions
Hy Murveit <hy AT murveit DOT com>, Major Code contributions
Eric Dejouhanet <eric DOT dejouhanet AT gmail DOT com>, Major Code contributions
Wolfgang Reissenberger <sterne-jaeger AT t-online DOT de>, Major Code contributions
Robert Lancaster, Major Code contributions
James Bowlin <bowlin AT mindspring DOT com>, Major code contributions, reorganization of code, HTM
Heiko Evermann <heiko AT evermann DOT de>, Major code contributions
Thomas Kabelmann <tk78 AT gmx DOT de>, Major code contributions
Pablo de Vicente <pvicentea AT wanadoo DOT es>, Major code contributions
Mark Hollomon <mhh AT mindspring DOT com>, Major code contributions
Carsten Niehaus <cniehaus AT kde DOT org>, Major code contributions
Luciano Montanaro, Additional Data / Catalogs, Patches
Glenn Becker, Additional Data / Catalogs
Carl Knight <sleepless DOT knight AT paradise DOT net DOT nz>, Abell Planetary Catalog
Médéric Boquien <mboquien AT free DOT fr>, Code contributions
Jérôme Sonrier <jsid AT emor3j DOT fr DOT eu DOT org>, Code contributions
Alexey Khudyakov <alexey DOT skladnoy AT gmail DOT com>, Code contributions
Prakash Mohan <prakash DOT mohan AT kdemail DOT net>, The Observation Planner and Execute feature
Henry de Valence <hdevalence AT gmail DOT com>, OpenGL painting
Victor Carbune <victor DOT carbune AT kdemail DOT net>, SQLite backend for object data storage and retrieval, major contributions
Samikshan Bairagya <samikshan AT gmail DOT com>, Supernovae in KStars
Rafał Kułaga <rl DOT kulaga AT gmail DOT com>, Maintainer, Better printing support for finder charts
Łukasz Jaskiewicz, Refactoring of OAL support

GSoC, SoCiS, SoK students

A listing of our Google Summer of Code, ESA SoCiS, and Season of KDE students:

Artem Fedoskin (GSoC 2016): KStars Lite
Cojocaru Raphael (GSoC 2016): KStars on Windows
Akarsh Simha (GSoC 2008): 100 million stars
Prakash Mohan (GSoC 2009): Observation planner
Victor Cărbune (GSoC 2010): SQLite Database for Objects
Henry de Valence (GSoC 2010): OpenGL rendering backend
Rafał Kułaga (GSoC 2011): Professional finder chart printing
Samikshan Bairagya (SoK 2011): Making KStars more suitable for a scientifically inclined user
Łukasz Jaśkiewicz (ESA SoCiS 2011): Making KStars more useful for beginners

A round of applause for our successful Google Code-in students!

These pre-university students contributed to KStars as a part of Google Code-in 2010.

Cezar Mocan
Ana-Maria Constantin
Carl Gao
Valery Kharitonov
Diego Luca Candido
Kristian Ivanov

Thanks for the patches and testing!

Laurent Montel
Eckhart Wörner
Burkhard Lück
Nico Dietrich
James Cameron
Ralf Habacker
Daniel Holler
Patrick Spendrin
Nuno Pinheiro
Andrew Buck
Patrice Levesque
Douglas Phillipson
Andrey Cherepanov
Vipul Kumar Singh
Jain Basil Aliyas
Jeamy Lee
Sivaramakrishnan S
Adhiraj Alai
Lukas Middendorf
Sruthi Devi
Keith Rusler
Frederik Gladhorn
Keerthi Kiran
Jure Repinc
Aditya Bhatt
Alessio Sangalli

And everyone else who helped us by filing those bug reports, popularizing our software...