Volunteers
The following persons are involved (alphabetical order):
- Michael Christen is project founder; designed and implemented the overall architecture, is chief software architect, release management, kelondro database, yacy core protocol, indexing technique and database structure, search and ranking functionality, http client/server architecture, admin of yacy.net
- Natali Christen designed the YaCy logo.
- Stephan Hermens has made some important bugfixes.
- Matthias Kempka provided a linux-init start/stop - script
- Timo Leise suggested and implemented an extension to the blacklist feature: part-of-domain matching.
- Marc Nause made many major enhancements to the YaCyWiki, the Message- and User-Profile menues and functions.
- Thomas Quella designed the Kaskelix mascot. He also made a large number of bug fixes.
- Wolfgang Sander-Beuermann, executive board member of the German search-engine association SuMa-eV
and manager of the meta-search-engine metaGer provided computing resources for a demo peer. He also pushed the project by arranging promotional events.
- Alexander Schier did much alpha-testing from beginning of project, and suggested many features; implemented the blacklist feature, bookmarks, log-menu, user-db, skin-feature, windows-installer and provided first implementation of the yacybar Firefox extension.
- Matthias Söhnholz added the offline-browsing feature
- slick helps as packager (.rpm, .deb etc)
- Oliver Wunder provided some german translation. He also made bittorrent-releases
Further volunteers are very welcome.
Please contact me if you have something that you are willing to do for this project. In any case: before you start something to do, please ask me in advance if I would like to integrate it later. Thank You!
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