David Chisnall, theraven
David Chisnall is a research assitant at Swansea University and author of The Definitive Guide to the Xen Hypervisor. He is currently working on several projects related to efficient dynamic language designs and the history of computing. In his copious free time, he writes a column for InformIT. His contributions to Étoilé include:
- StepChat, the Étoilé Jabber client.
- EtoileSerialise, the persisnent object framework used by CoreObject.
- EtoileThread and EtoileXML, the concurrency and XML parsing frameworks used by Etoile.
- The Étoilé Objective-C runtime.
A slightly out-of-date version of his CV is online for anyone considering offering him a job and not put off by the fact he writes about himself in the third person.
Quentin Mathé, qmathe
Quentin Mathé is a multimedia designer slowly moving toward more low-level experiments. Few years ago, he discovered the GNUstep project and a year later Nicolas Roard and he started the Étoilé project. His interests cover a wide range of topics, from programming language design to user interface. He recently wrote EtoileUI, a high level and reflective UI toolkit to support the user experience ideas behind Étoilé. Some of his contributions to Étoilé include:
- EtoileUI
- CoreObject
- IconKit, the icon theme and compositing framework
- LiveCD, the Ubuntu-based LiveCD infrastructure
- SystemConfig, the system related preferences framework
- System, the Étoilé daemonizer
Nicolas Roard, nico, nicolasroard
Nicolas Roard is a software engineer at Google, working on mobile devices. A long time GNUstep enthusiast, he originally contributed the Étoilé theme engine, Camaelon, and while his contributions last year mostly consisted of cheering on the rest of the developers (writing a thesis *eats* any free time!), his plans for the coming year are to improve theme support in GNUstep and Étoilé, work on integrated help support, improve the services mechanisms, commit various frameworks and palettes lingering on his hard drive and complete his structured document editor.
Jesse Ross, jross
Jesse Ross is a web designer and developer for Sevnthsin, a small interactive agency in Minnesota. In what little free time he has, he works as the lead artist for the Étoilé project. He designed the current and previous UI themes (Narcissus and Nesedah) for Étoilé, has designed many of the app icons used in the system, and is responsible for the project's web site. When he's not doing graphic work, he has aspirations of building small programs using the Étoilé toolkit.
