The people behind KMess
KMess is brought to you by this team of volunteers:
Mike K. Bennett (mkb137)-
Original author and maintainer up till KMess 1.3.
Nowadays active to support the project.
Location: Canada 
Diederik van der Boor (vdboor)-
Developer, project management.
Joined KMess after the 1.3 release.
Expertise: protocol code, MSNP2P support, architecture and website.
Location: The Netherlands 
Sjors Gielen (dazjorz)-
Developer.
Joined KMess just before the 2.0 beta 1 release.
Expertise: New features, bug hunting, testing, occasionally breaking the build.
Location: The Netherlands 
Adam Goossens (fontknocker)-
Developer.
Joined KMess just before the 2.0 beta 1 release.
Expertise: New features, bug hunting, testing, fixing build after dazjorz breaks it, occasionally breaking the build himself.
Location: Australia 
Antonio Nastasi (sifcenter)-
Developer.
Joined KMess at the start of the 2.0 cycle.
Expertise: Making improvements everywhere.
Location: Italy 
Valerio Pilo (amroth)-
Developer.
Joined KMess during the 1.5-pre1 cycle.
Expertise: user interface, polishing features, new features.
Location: Italy 
Jan Tönjes (pregopresto)-
Support and project management up till KMess 1.3.
Nowadays active to support the project. Donated the new kmess.org server.
Expertise: communication, testing, documentation, web master, etc
Location: Germany 
Ruben Vandamme (ruben)-
Developer.
Joined KMess after the 2.0 alpha 2 release.
Expertise: IPC (DBus), desktop integration, user interface.
Location: Belgium
If you would like to contact us, ask your questions at the the forums!
Also take a look at the development site and blogs.
Contributors
The following people also made contributions; without them, KMess wouldn't be where it is:
- Laurence Anderson
- Original file receive code.
- Michael Anderton
- KMess icon in Oxygen style.
- Mohamed Aser
- Internationalization of file saving fix.
- Pieterjan Camerlynck
- Roaming support.
- Richard Conway (seraph)
- MSNP12 support, various patches.
- Andrea Decorte
- Group selection in 'contact added user' dialog
- Alexandre Peixoto Ferreira
- Various internationalization fixes.
- Pedro Ferreira
- File transfer thumbnails.
- Dario Freddi
- Chat history dialog
- Vincent Fretin
- MSN6 emoticon definitions.
- Sjors Gielen (now a developer)
- IRC-like commands in the chat window
- Adam Goossens (now a developer)
- Notifications blocking option, winks disabling option, last message date feature
- Lin Haoxiang
- File send bug fix, proxy connect code.
- Dane Harnett
- Web design.
- Choe Hwanjin
- Various internationalization fixes.
- Julien Joubin
- Cartoon emoticons.
- Scott Morgan
- Xinerama fixes.
- Matteo Nardi
- KWallet support
- Damien Sandras
- GnomeMeeting developer.
- Liu Sizhuang
- P4-Context field support.
- Guido Solinas
- Pictures in contact list code, contact client info, chat font zoom.
- Tobias Tönjes
- Guy with a bag over his head.
- David Vignoni
- The old main and yellow/blue/violet emoticon sets of KMess 1.
Translators
- Panagiotis Papadopoulos
- Translations Maintainer.
- Mohamed Aser
- Arabic translation.
- Youssef Chahibi
- More Arabic translation.
- Ma'moun Diraneyya
- More Arabic translation.
- Mauricio Rother
- Brazilian Portuguese translation.
- Leonel Freire
- More Brazilian Portuguese translation.
- Sergio Rafael Lemke
- More Brazilian Portuguese translation.
- Maurício Arozi Moraes
- More Brazilian Portuguese translation.
- Jaume Cornadó
- Catalan translation.
- Adrià Arrufat
- More Catalan translation.
- Lin Haoxiang
- Simplified Chinese translation.
- Liu Sizhuang
- More Simplified Chinese translation.
- Cheng Yang
- More Simplified Chinese translation.
- Yen-chou Chen
- Traditional Chinese translation.
- Tryneeds-Chinese Translation Platform
- More Simplified Chinese translation.
- Lars Sommer
- Danish translation.
- Pascal d'Hermilly
- More Danish translation.
- Arend van Beelen Jr.
- Dutch translation.
- Diederik van der Boor
- More Dutch translation.
- Jaap Woldringh
- More Dutch translation.
- Elve
- More Dutch translation.
- Sander Pientka
- More Dutch translation.
- Heimen Stoffels
- More Dutch translation.
- Jyri Toomessoo
- Estonian translation.
- Markus Vuori
- Finnish translation.
- Joonas Niilola
- More Finnish translation.
- Jussi Timperi
- More Finnish translation.
- Antony Hussi
- More Finnish translation.
- Choplair
- French translation.
- Vincent Fretin
- More French translation.
- Andrea Blankenstijn
- More French translation.
- Barthe Guillaume
- More French translation.
- Scias
- More French translation.
- Jan Tönjes
- German translation.
- Panagiotis Papadopoulos
- More German translation, Greek translation.
- Dimitrios Glentadakis
- More Greek translation.
- Páder Rezsõ
- Hungarian translation.
- Pauli Henrik
- More Hungarian translation.
- David Vignoni
- Italian translation.
- Daniel E. Moctezuma
- Japanese translation.
- Valerio Pilo
- More Italian translation.
- Vincenzo Reale
- More Italian translation.
- Andrea Decorte
- More Italian translation.
- Park Dong Cheon
- Korean translation.
- Øyvind Sæther
- Norsk Bokmål translation.
- Zoran Milovanović
- Serbian translation.
- Rastislav Krupanský
- Slovak translation.
- Matjaž Kaše
- Slovenian translation.
- Johanna Gersch
- Spanish translation.
- J.C.A. Javi
- More Spanish translation.
- Alejandro Araiza Alvarado
- More Spanish translation.
- Jaume Corbí
- More Spanish translation.
- Christian Kaiser
- More Spanish translation.
- Juan Pablo González Tognarelli
- More Spanish translation.
- Alexis Daniel Medina Medina
- More Spanish translation.
- Manuel Ramírez
- More Spanish translation.
- Christian Lundgren
- Swedish translation.
- Mattias Newzella
- More Swedish translation.
- Rachan Hongpairote
- Thai translation.
- Gorkem Cetin
- Turkish translation.
- Barbaros Ulutas
- More Turkish translation.
- Uğur Çetin
- More Turkish translation.
Applications
- KMerlin
- Inspiration and assorted code.
- Kopete
- Old popup balloons code, initial p2p code, msn challenge handler.
- KScreensaver
- Idle timer code.
- BasKet
- Close-to-tray icon screenshot code.
- Amarok
- Custom crash handler implementation example.
Also thanks to...
All of our beta testers! Thanks for using, testing and helping us improve KMess every day!
