Franz Schmid (fschmid): “Our Linus …”. The original author and main coder; software developer for a manufacturing company.
Peter Linnell (mrdocs): Started with testing the 0.3.6 version, took over the documentation writing for 0.5.0; tester, RPM builder, original web master for the Scribus website; pre-press/IT consultant for publishing and e-commerce companies.
Craig Bradney (MrB): Started with 1.1.1; coding, testing, setup of docs.scribus.net and bugs.scribus.net, manages the IRC channels on freenode.net; IT manager for a global e-commerce company.
Petr Vaněk: Started with 1.1.4; plug-in specialist, has written several Scribus plug-ins and the how-to for Scribus plug-in writing; software engineer.
Riku Leino (Tsoots): Started with 1.1.5; wrote the Document Template plug-in and the OpenOffice.org/HTML importers for 1.2.2; IT manager for a large non-profit organization in Finland.
Andreas Vox – pronounced [fox] – (avox): Started with 1.3.0; developed the original Mac OS X native port, font and PostScript specialist, hates C++ and likes good layout; software developer.
Jean Ghali (jghali): Handles the Windows native port and much of the color management coding, gifted bughunter; pre-press and software engineer.
Oleksandr Moskalenko (malex): Maintainer of the Scribus Debian packages, helps with internationalization, translation, maintainer of the Scribus website, GSoC representative; molecular biologist.
Pierre Marchand (pierremarc); Fonts, canvas, text layout and shaping. Developer of FontMatrix, software developer for a publishing company.
Christoph Schäfer (christoph_s): Bug reporter and tester for bleeding edge Scribus, Wiki editor and doc translator/proofreader, one of the main authors of the Official Manual and the Scribus Online Help.
Hermann Kraus (Herm): Wrote the Render Frame plug-in for 1.4, GraphicsMagick and UniConvertor integration in 1.5.
Jain Basil Aliyas (jainbasil): Wrote the XTG and IDML import filters and works on the next generation of the Scribus Scripter.
Paul Smedley (smedles): Maintainer of the OS/2 port.
Paul F. Johnson (Nodoid): Started with sending patches for 0.8, did code review and code optimizing, wrote the “Coding Standards” document.
Steve Callcott (sjc): Wrote the Python plug-in “Font Sampler”, which showed the real power of the Python Scripter in Scribus; works on systems control and consumer electronics, custom software and support.
Alessandro Rimoldi: Added fixes for the Scripter and code clean-ups, GSoC mentor.
Jean-Jacques Sarton: Added some key patches for improving image handling and other improvements. Added the launcher for external image editors to Scribus.
Alistair Robinson: Added some important fixes for font handling in early Scribus versions. Also wrote the clever hack for GIMP to create CMYK TIFFs.
Maciej Hanski: Polish translator and one of the primary contributors to the Scribus Wiki.
Yves Ceccone: Original French translator, wrote many of the Python sample scripts included with Scribus, maintained a large number of docs for Scribus in French.
Craig Ringer: Worked on the scripter, build system and tested early Windows and Mac OS X ports. Contributed fixes for Python and other enhancements; IT/DTP administrator for a newspaper.
Martin Costabel: Maintains the Scribus port and support libraries for Fink, allowing Scribus to run under X11 on Mac OS X.
Niyam Bhushan: Contributed a terrific tutorial on Scribus.
Marti Maria: Answered tons of our questions on color management and provided littleCMS to the the Open Source world.
Johannes Rüschel: Excellent bug finder, former German translator.
Alexandre Prokoudine: Russian Translator, has helped a bunch with internationalization issues, as well as designing UI improvements; professional technical writer.
Lukasz Jernas (DeeJay1): PLD Linux package maintainer.
Howard White: Testing and testing and more testing; retired pre-press engineer.
Cedric Gemy: UI testing and feedback, GSoC mentor; graphics professor and author of books on Open Source graphics software.
Gregory Pittman: One of the primary contributors to the Scribus wiki and the documentation, one of the main authors of the Official Manual and the Scribus Online Help; author of several useful Scribus scripts; neurologist.
Volker Ribbert: Started with the German translation of the docs.
Louis Desjardins: LGM organizer, testing, feedback. Translator of the original documentation to French.
Frederic Dubuy: Translator of the original documentation to French.
François Lanctôt: Translator of the original documentation to French.
Alessandro Levati Translator of the original documentation to Italian.
Eirik Øverby: Continues to maintain our servers.
Gora Mohanty: Wrote the aspell spellcheck plug-in.
Elvis Stansvik: Wrote the “Search” feature for the Document Outline and implemented tables in 1.5svn.
Tomas Mecir: Orphans and widows control implementation and other improvements in 1.5svn.
Michael Doubez
Cezary Grabski: Lots of fixes and improvements to the text system, as well as other useful enhancements.
Marcus Holland-Moritz: Performance improvements for documents with large images.
Christian Töpp
Andy Fitzsimmon: Creator of the Scribus splashscreen.
Andreas Nilsson: Tango Project icons.
Jakub Steiner: Tango Project icons.
Antoine Cailliau: Tango Project icons.