Volunteers

YACY's architecture with the PLASMA search engine and the P2P-based distributed index was developed and implemented by Michael Peter Christen.

However, this project is just at the beginning and needs contributions from other developers, since there are many ideas how this project can move on to a broad range of users.

There are also some long-term targets. If the index-sharing someday works fine, maybe the browser producer like Opera or Konqueror would like to use the p2p-se to index the browser's cache and therefore provide each user with an open-source, free search engine.

At this time, some contributions already have been made. These are:

• Alexander Schier did much alpha-testing, gave valuable feed-back on my ideas and suggested his own. He suggested and implemented large parts of the popular blacklist feature. He supplied the 'Log'-menu function, the skin-feature, many minor changes, bug fixes and the Windows-Installer - version of yacy. Alex also provides and maintaines the german documentation for yacy.
• Natali Christen contributed the YACY logo and the design of the Kaskelix mascot.
• Wolfgang Sander-Beuermann, executive board member of the German search-engine association SuMa-eV and manager of the meta-search-engine metaGer provided web-space for the german documentation and computing resources for a demo peer. He also pushed the project by arranging promotional events.
• Timo Leise suggested and implemented an extension to the blacklist feature: part-of-domain matching.
• Martin Schwarze wrote a artikel/press release "Jedermanns Suchmaschine" about the YACY Projekt; published in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung.
• Matthias Kempka provided a linux-init start/stop - script

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!