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The Team

This is a list of the main wxWidgets developers. Please open an issue in wxWidgets/website repository or directly submit a pull request with the suggested changes if anything here is missing or outdated.

Core Team

  • Dr. Vadim Zeitlin - Vadim is the author of big parts of, and maintainer of, wxMSW port, global coordinator of the wxWidgets project and responsible for making new releases (or guilty of not making them in time, depending on the point of view). Vadim is based in France and runs his own consultancy company, TT-Solutions.

  • Dr. Stefan Csomor - An actual medical doctor, Stefan Csomor wrote and maintains wxMac, the port to OS X, and wxiOS. He runs Advanced Concepts AG, a Swiss software consultancy specialising in medical software.

  • Paul Cornett - Paul is the maintainer of wxGTK.

  • Robin Dunn - Robin works on the very popular wxPython project, which allows using wxWidgets from Python, and also contributed many fixes and improvements to wxWidgets itself.

  • Václav Slavík - Václav worked on wxHTML, the XRC system, the bakefile-based build system and many other areas. He is also the author of Poedit, the powerful and intuitive translation editor.

  • Bryan Petty - Bryan contributed to several areas of wxWidgets and has taken care of hosting wxTrac (now retired), wxWiki and wxWidgets documentation site, without speaking of this website itself, for many years.

Other Active Developers

Thanks to the following people for their continued contributions to wxWidgets:

  • Artur Wieczorek who is the maintainer of wxPropGrid library and the resident graphics expert.

  • Maarten Bent who is a very regular contributor to wxMSW, implementing big parts of high DPI support in it, maintainer of the CMake-based build system and much more.

  • Tobias Taschner who has implemented the CMake-based build system and added several entire components of wxWidgets, including, but not limited to, wxWebRequest and the related classes, and wxWebViewEdge backend.

  • Scott Talbert who added EGL support in wxGLCanvas and more.

  • Ulrich Telle who added wxUILocale class and contributed other fixes. Ulrich is also the author of several popular wxWidgets-related libraries, such as wxSQLite3, wxPdfDocument and wxChartDir.

  • PB has contributed many miscellaneous improvements to wxWidgets and its documentation but also numerous valuable contributions to GitHub reviews and issues discussions.

  • Jouk Jansen maintains wxWidgets for OpenVMS systems.

  • Danny Scott and Xavier Perrissoud build wxMSW binaries for wxWidgets releases.

  • Special thanks to Eric Jensen for his always pertinent contributions to the various mailing list discussions.

  • Many more people ought to be listed here but for now just a few more names and thanks to: Ali Kettab, Andreas Falkenhahn, Daniel Kulp, Ian McInerney, Paul Kulchenko, Konstantin S. Matveyev, Lauri Nurmi, New Pagodi, Cătălin Răceanu, Randalphwa, Dimitri Schoolwerth, Pavel Tyunin… And sorry in advance for anybody forgotten here (and please see the top of this page).

Core Team Alumni

Past core team members not actively involved in wxWidgets development any longer, but without whom wxWidgets wouldn’t have been possible:

  • Dr. Julian Smart - Julian Smart started the wxWidgets project at the University of Edinburgh in 1992. He worked on various aspects of the project, including wxX11, wxWinCE, release engineering, and web site maintenance. Julian’s company Anthemion Software Ltd. produces consumer and developer products, including the story development software StoryLines, and the wxWidgets dialog editor DialogBlocks.

  • Dr. Robert Roebling - Robert Roebling has written the initial GTK port and has overseen its development since then.

Other Historical Contributors

Incomplete list of other people who made important contributions to wxWidgets in the past (when these entries were written, explaining that most of them use the present tense) but are not actively involved into development any longer:

  • Mattia Barbon - Mattia wrote wxPerl, and works on container classes, wxMotif, and other aspects of wxWidgets.

  • Chris Elliott - Chris wrote wxHatch, and works on Borland C++ and OpenWatcom compatibility among other things.

  • Włodzimierz ‘ABX’ Skiba - ABX does extraordinary amounts of painstaking testing and provides fixes for bugs and warnings in widely used ports. He also explores new wxWidgets ports focusing mainly on mobile devices; and he helps in improving the bakefile build system.

  • Francesco Montorsi - Francesco contributed the wxCollapsiblePane, wxSimpleHtmlListBox, wxHyperlinkCtrl, wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrl widgets. He also contributed in other areas like wxPlatformInfo, wxDir, wxFileName, wxHtmlWindow events, indeterminate-mode for wxGauge, positional parameter support for wxVsnprintf, wxPresets for bakefile, wxAnimationCtrl, stock item support for wxGTK. Francesco was a Google Summer of Code student (2006) working on the wxWidgets Project Manager.

  • Kevin Hock - Kevin the secondary author of the wxWidgets book, and has made significant contributions to the wxSocket code, especially making it functional on OS X. He has also done extensive testing and tweaking on the OS X port, and enhancements and bug fixes to the main three ports (e.g. wxPasswordEntryDialog), with some emphasis in consistency among ports’ behavior.

  • Kevin Ollivier - Kevin works on the release scripts, wxWebKit for Mac OS X, the web site, and many other aspects of wxWidgets.

  • Michael Wetherell - Contributed the wxArchive classes and has worked on many other aspects of wxWidgets.

  • Stefan Neis - Stefan works on wxOS2 and wxMotif.

  • Mart Raudsepp - Mart is working mainly on enhancements to the GTK+ port of wxWidgets and is the Gentoo Linux wxWidgets maintainer.

  • Jamie Gadd - Jamie works on improving the look and feel and conformity to native behaviour of the Windows port.

  • OSAF (Open Source Applications Foundation) - Members of OSAF including David Surovell, John Anderson and Jed Burgess are active contributors to wxWidgets, especially to the Mac port. Their work on wxPython for OSAF’s Chandler application can be found here.