LilyPond - About - Acknowledgements

LilyPond was brought to you by

Han-Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen, core development
Han-Wen is working as a Senior Software Engineer at Google. He plays the French Horn and has recently taken up the challenge of playing the Trombone.

Jan is working as a Senior Free Software Engineer at Novell. His current assignment is OpenOffice.org. He plays the Viola and a weird, limited repertoire of Bach/Rachmaninov on the Piano.

Jan and Han-Wen met in a youth orchestra in the Netherlands. During that time, Jan was tinkering with MusicTeX preprocessors, and got Han-Wen interested. When he joined in it was decided that they should start afresh with a completely different approach. What they created is now known as LilyPond.

About the origin of the name ‘LilyPond’
Graham Percival, Documentation Editor and Bug Meister
Graham is a graduate student working on Computer-Assisted Musical Instrument Tutoring projects. His focus is writing software to help students learn violin, viola, or cello.
Pedro Kroeger, Build meister
Pedro is a professor of composition, harmony and counterpoint at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. In his free time he enjoys playing the viola and hacking some code.
Mats Bengtsson, Support Guru

Tineke de Munnik, Dutch translation.
Jean-Charles Malahieude, Gauvain Pocentek and John Mandereau, French translation.
Francisco Vila and Daniel Tonda Castillo, Spanish translation.
Till Rettig, German translation.
Yoshinobu Ishizaki, Japanese translation.

.. all LilyPond hackers, bug-hunters and users. In particular, big thank yous go out to