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| = Tom 'spot' Callaway = | | = Tom 'spot' Callaway = |
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| Tom 'spot' Callaway does not currently possess any notable mutant powers.
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| However, he is currently the Fedora Engineering Manager.
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| He is also responsible for the Aurora SPARC Linux Project, which is a port of Fedora to SPARC.<BR>
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| He's worked for Red Hat since February 2001, and is worshipped by lemurs throughout the known universe.
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| http://people.redhat.com/tcallawa/lemur.jpg
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| You can email him at: tcallawa<AT>redhat.com <BR>
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| On IRC (freenode.net), he's "spot".
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| He also maintains a LOT of packages in Fedora (including, but not limited to):
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| * alsamixergui: GUI mixer for ALSA sound devices <BR>
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| * artwiz-aleczapka-fonts: Set of (improved) artwiz fonts <BR>
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| * blacs: Basic Linear Algebra Communication Subprograms <BR>
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| * c-ares: A library that performs asynchronous DNS operations <BR>
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| * check: A unit test framework for C <BR>
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| * compat-wxGTK: Compatibility version of the wxWidgets GUI library <BR>
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| * compat-wxPythonGTK2: Compatibility version of the wxWidgets GUI toolkit for Python <BR>
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| * ddd: GUI for several command-line debuggers <BR>
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| * ebtables: Ethernet Bridge frame table administration tool <BR>
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| * evolution-bogofilter: A plugin for bogofilter support in evolution <BR>
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| * ftplib: library of FTP routines <BR>
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| * gambas: IDE based on a basic interpreter with object extensions <BR>
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| * google-perftools: Very fast malloc and performance analysis tools <BR>
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| * gxemul: Instruction-level machine emulator <BR>
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| * jam: Program construction tool, similar to make <BR>
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| * lapack: The LAPACK libraries for numerical linear algebra <BR>
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| * blas: The BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) library <BR>
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| * libgdamm: C++ wrappers for libgda <BR>
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| * libmcrypt: Encryption algorithms library <BR>
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| * libpaper - Library and tools for handling papersize <BR>
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| * librx: POSIX regexp functions <BR>
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| * lincity-ng: City Simulation Game <BR>
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| * logjam: A Gtk2 client for [http://www.livejournal.com/] <BR>
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| * lout: A document formatting system <BR>
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| * mcrypt: Replacement for crypt() <BR>
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| * mfstools: Utilities for TiVo drive upgrades <BR>
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| * netgo: Networking profile manager <BR>
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| * opendap:Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol<BR>
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| * perl-AnyData: Easy access to data in many formats <BR>
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| * perl-Apache-Session-Wrapper: A simple wrapper around Apache::Session <BR>
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| * perl-CGI-Simple: Simple totally OO CGI interface that is CGI.pm compliant <BR>
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| * perl-CGI-Untaint: Process CGI input parameters <BR>
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| * perl-CGI-Untaint-date: Validate a date <BR>
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| * perl-Class-Accessor: Automated accessor generation <BR>
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| * perl-Class-Accessor-Chained: Make chained accessors <BR>
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| * perl-Class-Data-Inheritable: Inheritable, overridable class data <BR>
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| * perl-Class-DBI: Simple Database Abstraction <BR>
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| * perl-Class-DBI-AbstractSearch: Abstract Class::DBI's SQL with SQL::Abstract <BR>
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| * perl-Class-DBI-AsForm: Produce HTML form elements for database columns <BR>
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| * perl-Class-DBI-FromCGI: Update Class::DBI data using CGI::Untaint <BR>
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| * perl-Class-DBI-Loader: Dynamic definition of Class::DBI sub classes <BR>
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| * perl-Class-DBI-Loader-Relationship: Easier relationship specification in CDBI::L <BR>
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| * perl-Class-DBI-mysql: Extensions to Class::DBI for MySQL <BR>
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| * perl-Class-DBI-Pager: Pager utility for Class::DBI <BR>
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| * perl-Class-DBI-Pg: Class::DBI extension for PostgreSQL <BR>
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| * perl-Class-DBI-Plugin: Abstract base class for Class::DBI plugins <BR>
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| * perl-Class-DBI-Plugin-RetrieveAll: More complex retrieve_all() for Class::DBI <BR>
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| * perl-Class-DBI-Plugin-Type: Determine type information for columns <BR>
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| * perl-Class-DBI-SQLite: Extension to Class::DBI for sqlite <BR>
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| * perl-Class-Trigger: Mixin to add / call inheritable triggers <BR>
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| * perl-Class-Whitehole: Base class to treat unhandled method calls as errors <BR>
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| * perl-Clone: Recursively copy perl datatypes <BR>
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| * perl-Data-Page: Help when paging through sets of results <BR>
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| * perl-DBD-AnyData: DBI access to XML, CSV and other formats <BR>
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| * perl-DBD-SQLite2: Self Contained RDBMS in a DBI Driver (sqlite 2.x) <BR>
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| * perl-DBIx-ContextualFetch: Add contextual fetches to DBI <BR>
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| * perl-Email-Abstract: Unified interface to mail representations <BR>
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| * perl-Email-Date: Find and format date headers <BR>
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| * perl-Email-MIME-Attachment-Stripper: Strip the attachments from a mail message <BR>
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| * perl-Email-MIME-Creator: Email::MIME constructor for starting anew <BR>
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| * perl-Email-Reply: Reply to an email message <BR>
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| * perl-Email-Send: Module for sending email <BR>
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| * perl-Email-Simple-Creator: Email::Simple constructor for starting anew <BR>
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| * perl-Exporter-Lite: Lightweight exporting of variables <BR>
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| * perl-ExtUtils-XSBuilder: Modules that parse C header files and create XS glue code.<BR>
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| * perl-Geography-Countries: 2-letter, 3-letter, and numerical codes for countries <BR>
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| * perl-HTTP-Body: HTTP Body Parser <BR>
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| * perl-HTML-Tree: HTML tree handling modules for Perl <BR>
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| * perl-Ima-DBI: Database connection caching and organization <BR>
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| * perl-Image-ExifTool: Utility for reading and writing image meta info <BR>
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| * perl-IO-CaptureOutput: Capture STDOUT/STDERR from subprocesses and XS/C modules <BR>
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| * perl-Lingua-EN-Inflect: Convert singular to plural, select "a" or "an" <BR>
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| * perl-Lingua-EN-Inflect-Number: Force number of words to singular or plural <BR>
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| * perl-Mail-Box: Manage a mailbox, a folder with messages <BR>
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| * perl-Mail-Box-Parser-C: Parsing folders for MailBox with C routines <BR>
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| * perl-Mail-IMAPClient: An IMAP Client API <BR>
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| * perl-Mail-Transport-Dbx: Parse Outlook Express mailboxes <BR>
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| * perl-Net-Domain-TLD: Work with TLD names <BR>
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| * perl-Object-Realize-Later: Delayed creation of objects <BR>
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| * perl-OLE-Storage_Lite: Simple Class for OLE document interface. <BR>
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| * perl-Pod-POM: Object-oriented interface to Perl POD documents <BR>
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| * perl-Return-Value: Polymorphic Return Values <BR>
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| * perl-SQL-Abstract: Generate SQL from Perl data structures <BR>
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| * perl-SQL-Abstract-Limit: Portable LIMIT Emulation <BR>
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| * perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel: Write formatted text and numbers to a cross-platform Excel binary file. <BR>
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| * perl-Taint-Runtime: Runtime enable taint checking <BR>
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| * perl-Template-GD: GD plugin(s) for the Template Toolkit <BR>
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| * perl-Template-Plugin-Class: Allow calling of class methods on arbitrary classes <BR>
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| * perl-Template-Toolkit: Template processing system<BR>
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| * perl-Test-MockModule: Override subroutines in a module for unit testing <BR>
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| * perl-Tie-DBI: Tie hashes to DBI relational databases. <BR>
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| * perl-UNIVERSAL-exports: Lightweight, universal exporting of variables <BR>
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| * perl-UNIVERSAL-moniker: Real world naming for classes <BR>
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| * perl-User-Identity: Maintains info about a physical person <BR>
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| * perl-version: Perl extension for Version Objects <BR>
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| * physfs: Library to provide abstract access to various archives <BR>
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| * pychart: Python library for generating chart images <BR>
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| * pydot: Python interface to Graphviz's Dot language <BR>
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| * pyxdg: PyXDG is a python library to access freedesktop.org <BR>
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| * QuantLib: QuantLib is a free/open-source library for modeling, trading, and risk management in real-life. <BR>
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| * R: A language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. <BR>
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| * R-hdf5: Interface to the NCSA HDF5 library <BR>
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| * R-RScaLAPACK: An interface to perform parallel computation on linear algebra problems using ScaLAPACK <BR>
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| * rekall: A KDE database front-end application <BR>
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| * rocksndiamonds: An underground digging game <BR>
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| * rootsh: Shell wrapper for auditing <BR>
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| * scalapack: A subset of LAPACK routines redesigned for distributed memory MIMD parallel computers <BR>
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| * scrub: Disk scrubbing program <BR>
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| * ser2net: Proxy that allows tcp connections to serial ports <BR>
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| * stripesnoop: Magnetic Stripe Reader <BR>
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| * udunits: A library for manipulating units of physical quantities <BR>
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| * wlassistant: Wireless network management tool <BR>
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| * xbase: XBase compatible database library and tools <BR>
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| * xbsql: A SQL wrapper for xbase <BR>
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| * xclip: Command line clipboard grabber <BR>
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| * xkeycaps: Graphical front end to xmodmap <BR>
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| * xpdf: A PDF file viewer for the X Window System. <BR>
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| * xsupplicant: Open Source Implementation of IEEE 802.1x <BR>
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| He's currently on the [[Development/SteeringCommittee| Fedora Engineering Steering Committee]] , responsible for RPM Packaging Standards and Practices.
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| Due to an incredibly erratic and unpredictable schedule, he doesn't currently keep regular office hours in #fedora-extras.
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| And last but not least, he's a Sponsor for new Contributors.
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| Currently, he sponsors these fine people:
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| Chuck R. Anderson
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| Dmitry Butskoy
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| Jeff Carlson
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| Didier Casse
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| Mark Cox
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| Kushal Das
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| Patrice Dumas
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| Ralf Ertzinger
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| Kevin Fenzi
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| Chris Grau
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| Kevin Gray
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| Ed Hill
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| Dan Horák
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| Neil Horman
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| Patrick Laughton
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| John Patrick Mahowald
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| José Matos
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| Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
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| Karen Rei Pease
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| Ian Pilcher
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| Orion Poplawski
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| Jef Spaleta
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| Quentin Spencer
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| Richard A. Stout
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| Andreas Thienemann
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| Axel Thimm
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| Jason L Tibbitts III
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| Toni Willberg
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| Paul Wouters
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| </pre>
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| If any of them screw up, feel free to let him know.
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| This is his ExtrasPackageChecklist.
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