The people behind KMess
KMess is brought to you by this team of volunteers:
Diederik van der Boor (vdboor)-
Developer, project management.
Joined KMess after the 1.3 release.
Expertise: protocol code, MSNP2P support, architecture and website.
Location: The Netherlands 
Valerio Pilo (amroth)-
Developer.
Joined KMess during the 1.5-pre1 cycle.
Expertise: interface improvement, polishing features.
Location: Italy 
Mike K. Bennett (mkb137)-
Original author and maintainer up till KMess 1.3.
Nowadays active to support the project.
Location: Canada 
Jan Tönjes (pregopresto)-
Support and project management up till KMess 1.3.
Expertise: communication, testing, documentation, web master, etc
Location: Germany
If you like to contact us, ask your questions at the the forums!
Also look around at the developer site and blogs.
Contributors
The following people also made contributions to KMess, which without we won't be where we are now:
- Dane Harnett
- Web design.
- David Vignoni
- The main and yellow/blue/violet emoticon sets and Italian translation.
- Julien Joubin
- Cartoon emoticons.
- Christian Müller
- Default sound theme.
- Michael Anderton
- KMess icon in Oxygen style.
- Richard Conway (seraph)
- MSNP12 support, various patches.
- Guido Solinas
- Pictures in contact list code, contact client info, chat font zoom.
- Pedro Ferreira
- File transfer thumbnails.
- Liu Sizhuang
- P4-Context field support.
- Scott Morgan
- Xinerama fixes.
- Laurence Anderson
- Original file receive code.
- Alexandre Peixoto Ferreira
- Various internationalization fixes.
- Choe Hwanjin
- Various internationalization fixes.
- Damien Sandras
- GnomeMeeting developer.
- Tobias Tönjes
- Guy with a bag over his head.
Translators
- Mohamed Aser
- Arabic translation, internationalization of file saving fix.
- Youssef Chahibi
- More Arabic translation.
- Mauricio Rother
- Brazilian Portuguese translation.
- Jaume Cornadó
- Catalan translation.
- Lin Haoxiang
- Simplified Chinese translation, file send bug fix, proxy connect code.
- Liu Sizhuang
- More Simplified Chinese translation.
- Yen-chou Chen
- Traditional Chinese translation.
- Lars Sommer
- Danish translation.
- Pascal d'Hermilly
- More Danish translation.
- Arend van Beelen Jr.
- Dutch translation.
- Diederik van der Boor
- More Dutch translation.
- Jaap Woldringh
- More Dutch translation.
- Jyri Toomessoo
- Estonian translation.
- Markus Vuori
- Finnish translation.
- Joonas Niilola
- More Finnish translation.
- Jussi Timperi
- More Finnish translation.
- Choplair
- French translation.
- Vincent Fretin
- More French translation, MSN6 emoticon definitions.
- Andrea Blankenstijn
- More French translation.
- Jan Tönjes
- German translation.
- Páder Rezsõ
- Hungarian translation.
- Valerio Pilo
- More Italian translation.
- Vincenzo Reale
- More Italian translation.
- Park Dong Cheon
- Korean translation.
- Øyvind Sæther
- Norsk Bokmål translation.
- Matjaž kaše
- Slovenian translation.
- Johanna Gersch
- Spanish translation.
- J.C.A. Javi
- More Spanish translation.
- Alejandro Araiza Alvarado
- More Spanish translation.
- Jaume Corbí
- More Spanish translation.
- Christian Kaiser
- More Spanish translation.
- Christian Lundgren
- Swedish translation.
- Rachan Hongpairote
- Thai translation.
- Gorkem Cetin
- Turkish translation.
- Barbaros Ulutas
- More Turkish translation.
- Uğur Çetin
- More Turkish translation.
Applications
- KMerlin
- Inspiration and assorted code.
- Kopete
- Old popup balloons code, initial p2p code, msn challenge handler.
- KScreensaver
- Idle timer code.
- BasKet
- Close-to-tray icon screenshot code.
- Amarok
- Custom crash handler implementation example.