Lead Developers

wrote the original X-Accountant in Motif as a school project, taking it to version 0.9 by October 1997. Although every single line of his code has been re-written, his name appears as a credit in almost every file. Such is the magic of copyrights.

liked what he saw: the GUI was slick, the code was documented and well structured, and it was all GPL'ed. And so he re-wrote it: adding cell-widgets to XbaeMatrix, so that the combobox and arrows would make an even slicker GUI, rewrote the X-Accountant internals to add double-entry, an account hierarchy, split out a transaction mini-engine, add support for stocks, and spiffed up the help menus. That was version 1.0 as of January 1998. For version 1.1 & 1.2, the engine was expanded and refined, and the register window code completely redesigned and made mostly Motif-(and GUI-)independent. Linas is now active with Gnumatic Incorporated, a company formed to enhance and support GnuCash for everyone, from home desktop users to commercial and professional accountants.

publicized the GnoMoney project widely and broadly, and then changed its name to GnuCash. (Actually, put the selection of the name up to popular vote. Democracy is not a good way to pick names.) Jeremy registered the domain name, and created and maintained the gnucash.org web site for years, and got the initial GTK/gnome code working. The newest website design is Jeremy's as well.

abused everyone for not using Perl, and then after we added Perl support, dumped Perl in favor of Guile / Scheme support. Rob built the build infrastructure, hacked the gtk code, and is whacking the file format. Also, the re-write of reports and statement downloading in Scheme , the g-wrap guile wrapper, and the user preferences.

hacks obsessively on GnuCash. But he can stop anytime he wants to. Really. (As he is now the gatekeeper of the GnuCash CVS tree, be nice to him, or he may decide to stop hacking in the middle of your patch).

is not shy, or softly spoken. So don't be shy if you find a bug in his code: QIF import, query API and transaction search, check-printing, commodity and currency support, gtkhtml integration and report printing.

extensive work on reports and reporting infrastructure, gnome GUI work, and user preferences.

design doc patches, XML refactoring, automated test suite, new file hierarchy import.

is a report-generating monster. He's been on of the largest contributors to the current report infrastructure, creating many of the important reports.

works on scheduled transactions and budgeting.