# Authors

## Nicotine+ Team

### Mat (mathiascode)
 - Maintainer (2020–present)
 - Developer

### Adam Cécile (eLvErDe)
 - Maintainer (2013–2016)
 - Domain name administrator
 - Source code migration from SVN to GitHub
 - Developer

### Han Boetes
 - Tester
 - Documentation
 - Bug hunting
 - Translation management

### alekksander
 - Tester
 - Redesign of some graphics

### slook
 - Tester
 - Accessibility improvements

### ketacat
 - Tester

## Nicotine+ Team (Emeritus)

### daelstorm
 - Maintainer (2004–2009)
 - Developer

### quinox
 - Maintainer (2009–2012)
 - Developer

### Michael Labouebe (gfarmerfr)
 - Maintainer (2016–2017)
 - Developer

### Kip Warner
 - Maintainer (2018–2020)
 - Developer
 - Debianization

### gallows (aka 'burp O')
 - Developer
 - Packager
 - Submitted Slack.Build file

### hedonist (formerly known as alexbk)
 - OS X Nicotine.app maintainer / developer
 - Author of PySoulSeek, used for Nicotine core

### lee8oi
 - Bash commander
 - New and updated /alias

### INMCM
 - Nicotine+ topic maintainer on [ubuntuforums.org](https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=196835)

### suser-guru
 - Suse Linux packager
 - Nicotine+ RPM's for Suse 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.0, 10.1

### osiris
 - Handy-man
 - Documentation
 - Some GNU/Linux packaging
 - Nicotine+ on Win32
 - Author of Nicotine+ guide

### Mutnick
 - Created Nicotine+ GitHub organization
 - Developer

### Lene Preuss
 - Python 3 migration
 - Unit and DEP-8 continuous integration testing


## Nicotine Team (Emeritus)

### Ingmar K. Steen (Hyriand)
 - Maintainer (2003–2004)

### daelstorm
 - Beta tester
 - Designer of most of the settings
 - Made the Nicotine icons

### SmackleFunky
 - Beta tester

### Wretched
 - Beta tester
 - Bringer of great ideas

### (va)\*10^3
 - Beta tester
 - Designer of Nicotine homepage and artwork (logos)

### sierracat
 - MacOSX tester
 - soulseeX developer

### Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
 - Created the exception dialog

### SeeSchloss
 - Developer
 - Created 1.0.8 Win32 installer
 - Created [Soulfind](https://github.com/soulfind-dev/soulfind), open source Soulseek server written in D

### vasi
 - Mac developer
 - Packaged Nicotine on OSX PowerPC


## PySoulSeek Team (Emeritus)

### Alexander Kanavin
 - Maintainer (2001–2003)

### Nir Arbel
 - Helped with many protocol questions, and of course he designed and implemented the whole system

### Brett W. Thompson (Zip)
 - His client code was used to get an initial impression of how the system works
 - Supplied the patch for logging chat conversations

### Josselin Mouette
 - Official Debian package maintainer

### blueboy
 - Former unofficial Debian package maintainer

### Christian Swinehart
 - Fink package maintainer

### Ingmar K. Steen (Hyriand)
 - Patches for upload bandwidth management, banning, various UI improvements and more

### Geert Kloosterman
 - A script for importing Windows Soulseek configuration

### Joe Halliwell
 - Submitted a patch for optionally discarding search
   results after closing a search tab

### Alexey Vyskubov
 - Code cleanups

### Jason Green (SmackleFunky)
 - Ignore list and auto-join checkbox, wishlists


## Contributors

 - (._.)
 - Adam Cécile
 - AHOHNMYC
 - alekksander
 - Alexander Kanavin
 - Alexey Vyskubov
 - Allan Nordhøy
 - Amun-Ra
 - Artem
 - AtticFinder65536
 - Attila Fidan
 - Avery
 - b1llso
 - baloo79
 - bgo-eiu
 - blueboy
 - Bonislaw
 - Brett W. Thompson
 - burnmail123
 - ButterflyOfFire
 - Cata
 - César Augusto do Nascimento
 - Chris McKenzie
 - Christian Swinehart
 - chz
 - Coda
 - cwpute
 - daelstorm
 - David Balazs
 - dbazza
 - Dreslo
 - dtalens
 - Elias Groß
 - Emily
 - Eryk Michalak
 - Everly
 - Felipe Nogaroto Gonzalez
 - Gabriele
 - gahag
 - gallegonovato
 - gallows
 - Geert Kloosterman
 - gfarmerfr
 - Gianluca Boiano
 - Guilherme Santos
 - Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
 - hadwin
 - Han Boetes
 - Havokdan
 - hednod
 - Héliaz
 - homedirectory
 - hylau
 - ian andrew remsen
 - Ingmar K. Steen
 - INMCM
 - Inso-m-niaC
 - Jackson Baber
 - Jason Green
 - Jean-Baptiste ALLAIN
 - Jimmy
 - J. Lavoie
 - Joe Halliwell
 - Jordan Rodrigues
 - Jörn Weigend
 - jose alberto matos
 - Josep Anguera
 - Josselin Mouette
 - Jozef Říha
 - JP Dillingham
 - Juan Benites
 - Julen
 - Julian
 - Julien Wajsberg
 - Kari Viittanen
 - Kawasumi Ayako
 - Kenny Verstraete
 - ketacat
 - Kian-Meng Ang
 - Kip Warner
 - Kirill Feoktistov
 - lee8oi
 - Lene Preuss
 - Lev Gorodetskiy
 - lippel
 - Lucas Vieites
 - m-balthazar
 - Maite Guix
 - mantas
 - ManWell
 - marciozomb13
 - Mariusz
 - Markus Magnuson
 - Mat
 - mathsped
 - Maxime Leroy
 - Mehavoid
 - MELERIX
 - MendelGusmao
 - Meokater
 - Michael Labouebe
 - Micke Nilsson
 - Miodrag Milić
 - mitramai
 - Mohamed El Morabity
 - monowii
 - Monsieur Poisson
 - ms-afk
 - Mutnick
 - mzf-guest
 - Nachtalb
 - nicola
 - Nicolas Abril
 - Nick Voronin
 - Nils
 - nince78
 - Nir Arbel
 - nyoooooooooooooooom
 - Offhand
 - Oğuz Ersen
 - Oleg Gritsun
 - Oliver Hattshire
 - osiris
 - Pagal3
 - Patrik
 - phelissimo_
 - phlostically
 - Piotr Strebski
 - Poesty Li
 - PriitUring
 - quinox
 - redactedscribe
 - rimasx
 - Saumon
 - SeeSchloss
 - sierracat
 - Sigrid Davis
 - Silvio Orta
 - Slendi
 - slook
 - spongy
 - ssantos
 - Ștefan Talpalaru
 - stillbirth
 - Strange
 - subu_versus
 - suser-guru
 - systr
 - Szia Tomi
 - tagomago
 - thine
 - Timo Vanwynsberghe
 - Toine Rademacher
 - tsointsoin
 - (va)\*10^3
 - vasi
 - Vinícius Soares
 - Vladimir Sedach
 - Vladyslav Anisimov
 - wanderer
 - Wojciech Owczarek
 - Wretched
 - W L
 - X Kowalsky
 - Ys413
 - yyyyyyyan
 - zniavre
 - ZTetriminos
 - Žygimantas Beručka


## Translators

See [TRANSLATORS.md](TRANSLATORS.md)


## Third-Party Attributions

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