WINEHQ - Key Persons
Alex has been using Wine since the dark ages - 1994. Although, as he explained, back then it was a bit more like experimenting than actually using. Alex began submitting patches a few years ago, primarily related to low-level graphics. Alex is a custom programmer and engineering consultant but in his spare time enjoys music and running.
Andreas was born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1977 and grew up in Renningen, near Stuttgart. He did the usual military service after high school and in 1997 began studying electrical engineering at Stuttgart University. Now he's attending the University of Applied Sciences in Esslingen studying computer science. Besides the normal CS classes Andreas is focusing on embedded systems, automation, and networking.BR BR Most recently Andreas worked on the wineboot utility responsible for performing startup tasks required by applications. In the past he's been responsible for work in many different areas including documentation, installer support, and memory management.BR BR Interview: #6
Aric Stewart lives in a small, very yellow 1 1/2 story house in snowy Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jeremy White likes to parade him around as the only Wine hacker that CodeWeavers has been able to grow from scratch, which is true. Working for CodeWeavers since his graduation from college he started working on Wine because of his employment at CodeWeavers. He has done a lot of random bug fixes and work on windows tablets for CodeWeavers, but really found his own area when he tried to use some of his Japanese programs on Wine and worked hard to get XIM and IMM32 to play nice together. When he is not hacking on Wine or answering customer support tickets, Aric studies martial arts, tries to keep his Japanese language skills from fading, watches Japanese animation, runs role playing games and LARPs, makes jewelry, hangs with friends or is out wandering around one of the lakes in town.
Bill has been a programmer since the mid-eighties but only got involved with Linux and Wine since 2001. He's been involved with getting applications developed by his employer to work under Wine. As such, he's worked on a lot of interface areas. Outside of work he enjoys snowboarding with his daughter, curling, and volunteering for his church and the Lions.
Christian is an engineer who works on HW accelerated video codecs for mobile phone industry. He first tried Wine in 2001 and began submitting patches the next year. His first additions were for DOS support of DMA and SoundBlaster emulation. He moved on to Direct3D and DirectDraw and worked on the revival of that code. Christian also added Midi and WaveIn support to the winealsa sound driver. Outside of Wine, Christian enjoys playing guitar, snowboarding, and games.
Chris first got started with Wine back in 1999 when he first started using Linux. In 2001 he worked for CodeWeavers after which he continued to work on Wine. Chris wrote both the aRts and jack audio drivers. Now he's moved on to working on some configuration issues by improving winecfg and wineinstall. When he's not performing tech support on #winehq, Chris enjoys motorcycling and weightlifting.
Detlef started with Wine in 2005. He has done lots of work on Wine's printing support and touched various parts in Wine and the tests.
Born in Bucharest, Romania in 1974, Dimi started hacking on a Sinclair Spectrum clone called HC85 in grade 9. In 1992 he moved to Toronto, Canada. He earned a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Comp. Sci. at the University of Toronto Now he's working as an independent contractor for financial institutions and other large multinational companies.BR BR Dimi has been involved with Wine since 1995 and contributed to many different areas, including common controls. Dimi's focus lately has been on project management and acting as a catalyst to drive Wine toward a beta release. He also has a fairly new obsession trying to improve the porting interface to enable applications to be easily compiled with Winelib.BR BR Interview: #2
Duane is a circuit design engineer who first started using Wine to run engineering software on Linux. He first started hacking on Wine in 2000 to make printing of schematics work right.
François recently moved back to France after spending five years in California. He attended college at Ecole Centrale de Lyon studying engineering sciences. He's been involved with Wine since 1998 and responsible for making Winelib more usable. Part of that means developing the winemaker tool.BR BR Interview: #11
Huw is the resident font guru. In the past he's also done extensive work on Wine's Postscript driver and printing.
Kevin first got into Wine on a whim a few years ago when he first installed Linux at home and needed to get some games running. Recently in the process of porting a few Windows applications he had written he noticed some headers were missing. In a fit of madness he started implementing theming. Kevin also enjoys paintball and skiing.
Martin's primary focus of development is for the ReactOS team. As such, he's implemented much of the functionality of the ReactOS Explorer. In turn, that work required significant additions to Wine's shell32 DLL. In the past he's also contributed to Wine's Winefile application and various user interface things such as common controls.
Phil mostly specializes in Richedit code, however, he also has contributed in other areas. Currently he works as a SAS data warehouse administrator, but seeks any chance to be paid for making Free/OSS software.
Vincent pays the bills as a mechanical engineer. With regard to Wine, he serves as the packager for Red Hat distributions, versions 7.3, 8, and 9. Lately he's also been involved in localization and various janitorial projects.
Vincent likes to play with broken applications and figure out what's wrong with them, but when it comes to actually fixing the issues he tends to get distracted and move on to something else. He doesn't much care what part of the code this takes him to. He now works for CodeWeavers, which forces him to take the time to actually resolve some problems.