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+deal.II Authors
+===============
+
+deal.II is a global project. It is administered by a group of principal
+developers. Technical decisions are made by the principal developers and a
+group of developers consisting of long-term contributors with a global
+overview of the library. A large number of contributors have provided
+substantial patches over the years. These three groups are listed below.
+
+Principal developers:
+---------------------
+
+Wolfgang Bangerth, Texas A&M University, TX, USA
+Timo Heister, Clemson University, SC, USA
+Guido Kanschat, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
+Matthias Maier, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
+
+Developers:
+-----------
+
+Luca Heltai, SISSA, Trieste, Italy
+Martin Kronbichler, Technische Universität München, Germany
+Bruno Turcksin, Texas A&M University, TX, USA
+Toby D. Young, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
+
+Contributors:
+-------------
+
+Many people have contributed to deal.II over the years, some of them very
+substantial parts of the library. Their work is greatly appreciated: no
+open source project can survice without a community. The following people
+contributed major parts of the library (in alphabetical order), with many
+more that have sent in fixes and small enhancements:
+
+Mihai Alexe
+Moritz Allmaras
+Fahad Alrashed
+Michael Anderson
+Juan Carlos Araujo Cabarcas
+Nicola Cavallini
+Daniel Arndt
+Andrew Baker
+Mauro Bardelloni
+Alistair Bentley
+Andrea Bonito
+Marco Borelli
+Benjamin Brands
+Markus Bürg
+John Burnell
+Krysztof Bzowski
+Praveen C
+Brian Carnes
+Jordan Cazamias
+Ivan Christov
+Chih-Che Chueh
+Denis Davydov
+Minh Do-Quang
+Kevin Drzycimski
+Kevin Dugan
+Marco Engelhard
+Anton Evgrafov
+Menno Fraters
+Jörg Frohne
+Thomas Geenen
+Martin Genet
+Arezou Ghesmati
+Nicola Giuliani
+Christian Goll
+Alexander Grayver
+Ryan Grove
+Felix Gruber
+Maien Hamed
+Ralf Hartmann
+Eric Heien
+Christoph Heiniger
+Michael F. Herbst
+Dakshina Ilangovan
+Bärbel Janssen
+Armin Ghajar Jazi
+Xing Jin
+Oliver Kayser-Herold
+Seungil Kim
+Benjamin Shelton Kirk
+Angela Klewinghaus
+Uwe Köcher
+Katharina Kormann
+Lukas Korous
+Giorgos Kourakos
+Oleh Krehel
+Ross Kynch
+Damien Lebrun-Grandie
+Tobias Leicht
+Yan Li
+Manuel Quezada de Luna
+Vijay Mahadevan
+Cataldo Manigrasso
+Andre Massing
+Andrew McBride
+Craig Michoski
+Scott Miller
+Andrea Mola
+Helmut Müller
+Jose Javier Munoz Criollo
+Stefan Nauber
+David Neckels
+M. Sebastian Pauletti
+Jean-Paul Pelteret
+Jonathan Pitt
+Guiseppe Pitton
+Fernando Posada
+Adam Powell IV
+Florian Prill
+Andreas Putz
+Lei Qiao
+Daniel Castanon Quiroz
+Michael Rapson
+Thomas Richter
+Angel Rodriguez
+Ian Rose
+Shiva Rudraraju
+Mayank Sabharwal
+Abner Salgado-Gonzalez
+Anna Schneebeli
+Jan Schrage
+Ralf B. Schulz
+Jason Sheldon
+Florian Sonner
+Michael Stadler
+Martin Steigemann
+Simon Sticko
+Franz-Theo Suttmeier
+Zhen Tao
+Marco Tezzele
+Habib Talavatifard
+Ben Thompson
+Christophe Trophime
+Kainan Wang
+Yaqi Wang
+David Wells
+Sven Wetterauer
+Joshua White
+Michal Wichrowski
+Christian Wülker
+Yuhan Zhou
+Valentin Zingan