All the people below have helped to contribute, in big or small ways, to OERPUB.
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- Max Starkenburg – Max is a visual designer who worked on designs and mockups for the importer workflow, as well as the WYSIWYG editor. You can see more of his work at http://maxwell.fyi/
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- Kathi Fletcher – Kathi’s Shuttleworth Fellowship (2011-2014) supported this work. She is still involved and is now the Technical Director at OpenStax. (https://openstax.org)
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- Tom Woodward – Tom is a software developer who made the textbook editor a reality.
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- Gbenga Badipe – Gbenga is a Rice University graduate who interned with OERPUB fixing outstanding bugs, enhancing the word/open office converter, and developed a video plugin to the editor.
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- Saket Choudhary – Saket contributed a slide importer plugin after a successful Google Summer of Code project in 2012 with Connexions
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- Marvin Reimer – Marvin wrote many flavors of a Google Docs to CNXML converter and was lead developer on remix.oerpub.org. He also maintained all the sites and servers. Marvin is now a senior developer for web applications and infrastructure working mostly for scifabric.com and crowdsourcing software.
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- Carl Sheffler – Carl wrote the first client that used OERPub. He is now Assistant Professor of Computational Sciences at Minerva.
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- Ying Jin – Ying joined us for the Connexions 2012 sprints and contributed code on the Google Docs CSS import fixes and better failure handling. She has experience with DSpace, Fedora and EPrints so we are hoping to lure her into adding more repositories to the list of places to publish from the importer.
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- Roché Compaan – Roché’s company Upfront Systems is based in Stellenbosch, South Africa. His team implemented the OERPub service in Connexions and helped with the OERPub client importer.
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- David Lippman – David is faculty at Pierce College and developer of Internet Math Assessment System. He came down to Houston to talk about assessment systems and spent a day sprinting with us on how to edit structured documents. He worked on TinyMCE with Roché and experimented with plugins to allow element extensions to create simple tools for building CNXML/HTML5 semantic markup in TinyMCE. They managed to get an exercise plugin working, and he later added a “section” tag plugin.
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- Daniel Williamson – Daniel is now the Managing Director of OpenStax (openstax.org) Way back in the day Daniel managed a team testing OERPUB tools and then went on to provide strategic advice to the team as well as meeting space.
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- Manpreet Kaur – Manpreet is a User Experience expert. She helped out at sprints with a new design for advanced features and with a more usable workflow for creating new versions of modules.
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- Adrien Garcia – Adrian is a user experience researcher and designer. He conducted usability testing and created wireframes of the WYSIWYG editor based on end users’ needs and characteristics. He also added to our blog about usability testing methods and user experience.
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- Phil Schatz – Phil Schatz wrote many plugins for the editor including the math plugin. He is now a senior developer and technical architect at OpenStax.
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- JP Slavinsky – JP participated in sprints and contributed code so that Google Docs can be converted by URL. He is principal and owner at Kindling Labs and contracts as a technical architect and developer for OpenStax.
And the list with contributors goes on with:
- Max Grossman – Max is a Rice senior that joined the project in January 2012. He started by fixing bugs and is now working on a testing framework for each of the document conversion pipelines.
- Amber Callan – Amber is a Rice University student who is interning in 2013 with the User Interface team.
- Ryan Stickney – Ryan did extensive testing of all aspects of the OERPub API.
- Sebastian Thomas – Sebastian is a graduate student in Human Computer Interaction studies and did initial designs for the importer and user testing.
- Johan Beyers – Johan developed the build system that we are using, helped with development of the first version of the uploader and often helps orient new developers.
- Rijk Stofberg – Rijk works for Upfront Systems and implemented the current user interface for us (in a week!).
- Chuck Bearden – Chuck is an XML guru and former Connexions employee who still contributes at sprints and occasionally on special projects. He did some sprint day XSLT fixes to allow authors to include fancier semantic features even while using Word/OpenOffice/GoogleDocs. (They were breaking the importer before the sprint). He also did some work creating unit tests.
- Brian West – Brian is a developer on the OERPUB team working on editor plugins and on import and export transforms.
- Esther Luk – Esther was a member of the User Interface team during the summer of 2012 when the team was first developing the model for manipulating educational features like examples and exercises within the documents.
- Izak Burger – Izak works for Upfront Systems and has developed plugins for the editor including the table and image plugins.
- Adam Hyde – Adam works with Sourcefabric and Booktype. He organized the sprint in 2012 in Berlin where the partners chose Aloha to base the editor on. Booktype is incorporating the editor in their upcoming version 2.
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