A number of people have contributed to jQuery - it may not be possible to thank everyone who's helped to make the library what it is today, but it's certainly possible to start somewhere:
Core Developers
The following people are in charge of maintaining jQuery and managing its day-to-day operations.
- John Resig - jQuery was originally developed by John, and is currently responsible for its active development. He released jQuery at Bar Camp NYC in January of 2006.
Contributors
A number of people have contributed to the jQuery by fixing bugs, writing documentation, or authoring plugins - these are just a few of all those that have helped.
- Audun Wilhemsen is an Opera employee, developing widgets with jQuery.
- Franck Marcia is a frequent contributor and plugin developer.
- Michael Geary was one of the first plugin developers for jQuery.
- Gilles van den Hoven has contributed a number of bug fixes and plugin contributions.
- Cody Lindley is a frequent blogger for CSS Beauty and the author of the Thickbox library.
- Klaus Hartl is the developer responsible for bringing jQuery to Plazes and is a frequent contributor.
- Stefan Petre is responsible for creating the popular Interface plugin.
- Yehuda Katz created the Visual jQuery documentation page and made many contributions to this wiki and the overall documentation.
- Will Jessup works at Kevo and has written several plugin's and demo's on his blog, such as the jQuery solar system
Donations
Many people have contributed, financially, to jQuery. Their contributions have helped to keep jQuery bandwidth costs down. If you would like to help the jQuery project, please feel free to donate using the following form: