The jQuery Foundation Board of Directors
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Dave Methvin
jQuery Core Lead | President
Dave is a long-time contributor to jQuery, providing extensive help on the jQuery bug tracker and in the jQuery discussion forums. As the lead of the jQuery dev team he works to ensure high quality, timely, releases of the library, organizes the planning and development efforts of the team, and generally drives the direction of the library.
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Kris Borchers
Executive Director
Kris Borchers is Executive Director of the jQuery Foundation. He is also a member of the jQuery UI team where he helps with both maintaining the existing code as well as new development.
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Scott González
jQuery UI Lead | Secretary | Infrastructure
Scott González is a web developer living in York, PA. As the jQuery UI Project Lead, he puts a lot of effort into keeping jQuery UI efficient, consistent, and accessible, as well as adjusting the roadmap to meet the ever-changing needs of the community. Scott also works with browser vendors and standards bodies to make the Web a better place for everyone, not just jQuery users.
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Jörn Zaefferer
QUnit Lead | jQuery UI Dev Lead | Infrastructure
Jörn is a freelance web developer, consultant and trainer, based in Cologne, Germany. Jörn evolved jQuery’s testsuite into QUnit, a JavaScript unit testing framework, and maintains it. He created and maintains a number of popular plugins. As a jQuery UI development lead, he focuses on the development of new plugins, widgets and utilities.
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Adam Sontag
Content Lead | Developer Relations Lead | Outreach Director
Adam J. Sontag is a New York City-based developer with Boston’s Bocoup. He’s the Developer Relations lead for jQuery and jQuery UI and co-host of the yayQuery podcast. In other words, he’s dedicated to keeping the jQuery project in sync with the community’s needs and wants.
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Yehuda Katz
Standards Lead | Treasurer
Yehuda is a developer living in San Francisco, CA who maintained the web site Visual jQuery, and published the Visual jQuery Magazine. Additionally, he’s a frequent contributor to the jQuery Blog and promoter of good practices within the jQuery core. Yehuda is a member of the Ruby on Rails Core Team, and spends much of his time traveling to promote and evangelize both jQuery and Rails.
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Rick Waldron
jQuery Core | Standards
Rick Waldron works at Bocoup in Boston, where he is a JavaScript enthusiast and evangelist and jQuery core committer.
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Dan Heberden
Infrastructure
Dan is a front end engineer for Bazaarvoice. He works remotely from Portland, Oregon. As a member of the jQuery team, Dan assists with the technology needs, events, and other various needs of the project. He loves helping with open source projects and enjoys teaching others how to write great code.
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Corey Frang
Infrastructure Lead
Corey is an active contributor to most of the jQuery teams and is active in the jQuery community on IRC, and Stack Overflow. He restructured the effects modules in both UI and Core, maintains the jQuery Color Animations plugin, and puppeteers the new jQuery servers. He hopes that his work will “effect” your websites positively.
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Ralph Whitbeck
jQuery Mobile
Ralph is a Senior Developer at appendTo, LLC where he works with an awesome team of designers and developers delivering Front-end code for clients. Example projects include responsive web, widget development, product development, HTML5/CSS3, and much more. Ralph has been a member of the board since October 2009.
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Anne-Gaelle Colom
jQuery Mobile | Content
Anne-Gaelle Colom is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster in London, UK. She is passionate about the use of technology in Higher Education as well as the Web and Mobile world. Anne-Gaelle joined the jQuery Mobile team in October 2011 to become the documentation lead a few months later.
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Mike Sherov
jQuery UI | jQuery Core
Mike is a Senior Software Engineer at Behance, from Plainview, New York. He is involved in development and testing efforts across multiple jQuery projects. Mike focuses his efforts around the CSS/JS interactions and works with the standards bodies and browser vendors to move the web forward.
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John Resig
Emeritus Member | Creator of the jQuery Library
John is the original creator of the jQuery library. He works with the jQuery dev team and the jQuery board to help set the direction of the project.
The jQuery Foundation Board of Advisors
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Matt Mullenweg
Founding developer of WordPress | Founder of Automattic
Matt Mullenweg is one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web, and Vanity Fair’s Next Establishment. He is the founding developer of WordPress, the Open Source software used by over 22% of the web, including this site.
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Karl Swedberg
Content Lead
Karl Swedberg (@kswedberg) is author of the definitive Learning jQuery blog and co-author of Learning jQuery and The jQuery Reference Guide books by Packt Publishing. The jQuery Reference Guide is the foundation for api.jquery.com, which Karl helped design and build. A member of the jQuery Content team, Karl is actively involved in maintaining content on all jQuery sites, especially the jQuery core API site.
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Alex Sexton
JavaScript Developer | Curator of TXJS
Alex Sexton (@SlexAxton) is a JavaScript Developer from Austin, TX. He's a member of the Modernizr core team, former co-host of the yayQuery podcast and author of many open source JavaScript libraries including the Jed Toolkit, and yepnope.js. He focuses primarily on the challenges involved in creating large single-page applications, especially those that use jQuery.
Support Staff
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Joel G. Kinney
Legal Counsel | Fort Point Legal
Joel is the founder of Fort Point Legal, a Boston based law firm dedicated to serving the needs of the open source, internet startup and entrepreneur communities. In addition to his advocacy for open source companies, he also mentors tech and other startups in business competitions such as Mass Challenge. Joel is often found on his bicycle traveling between coworking spaces, meetups and anywhere else hackers are found.
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Derek Jenks
CMP | Event Planning Concepts
Derek Jenks is a Certified Meeting Professional with extensive experience in the hospitality management field and also holds a degree in Hospitality Management: Meeting Planning and Organization as well as a degree in Business Management. He has deep knowledge of the meeting planning industry as well as the logistics and execution of exhibitions. He is a member of the International Association of Exhibitions and Events (IAEE), the Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA), Meeting Planners International (MPI) and the Society of Government Meeting Planners (SGMP).
The jQuery Team
The jQuery team is made up of subteams working on various areas of the project. For example there are subteams that work on Mobile, Core, UI, Events, etc. Without the contributions of the following people we could not exist:
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Clark Allan
Infrastructure
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Julian Aubourg
Core, Standards
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Jay Blanchard
Developer Relations
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Kevin Boudloche
Developer Relations
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Kim Cooperrider
Events
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Isaac Durazo
Outreach (Design)
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Jasper de Groot
Mobile Lead
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Oleg Gaidarenko
Core
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Richard Gibson
Core
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Michał Gołębiowski
Core
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James M. Greene
QUnit
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Felix Nagel
UI
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Ryan Neufeld
Infrastructure
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Addy Osmani
Content
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Alex Schmitz
Mobile
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Gabriel Schulhof
Mobile
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Ghislain Seguin
Mobile
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Craig Sharkie
Events (Pacific-Asia)
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Timo "Krinkle" Tijhof
QUnit | Infrastructure
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Adam Ulvi
Infrastructure
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TJ VanToll
UI
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Timmy Willison
Core
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Keith Wood
Developer Relations
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Rafael Xavier
UI | Events (Brazil)
Past Team Members
These are the members of the jQuery team alumni. We recognize them for their contributions to the jQuery Project. They may not be as active in the project as they were before but they are still considered key contributors for the jQuery Project.
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Brandon Aaron
Core
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Mike Alsup
API, Forum, and Plugins
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Rey Bango
Developer Relations
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Paul Bakaus
jQuery UI Creator
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John Bender
Mobile
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Tyler Benzinger
Mobile
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Kin Blas
Mobile
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Nate Cavanaugh
Design and Web
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Darcy Clarke
Design and Web
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Chris Coyier
Design
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Alex Dovenmuehle
UI
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Nate Eagle
Design
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Ariel Flesler
Core
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Ryan Gibbons
Infrastructure
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Skye Giordano
Design
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Maurice Gottlieb
Mobile
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Marc Grabanski
UI
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Klaus Hartl
UI
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Mike Hostetler
Infrastructure and Operations
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Paul Irish
Standards
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Scott Jehl
Mobile
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Sean Koole
Content
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Chris Lea
Infrastructure
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Jeff Lembeck
Mobile
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Cody Lindley
Developer Relations
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Mat Marquis
Mobile
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Doug Neiner
Design
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Todd Parker
Mobile
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David Petersen
UI
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Stefan Petre
Creator of Interface Plugin
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Abby Phoenix
Events
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Tane Piper
Developer Relations
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Corey Quinn
Web
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Philippe Rathé
QUnit
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Jason Scott
Mobile
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Boaz Sender
Content, Design, and Web
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David Serduke
Core
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Bradley Sepos
Design
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Jonathan Sharp
Infrastructure
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Remy Sharp
Developer Relations
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Leah Silber
Events
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Nate Tassinari
Events
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Patty Toland
Mobile
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Maggie Costello Wachs
Mobile
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Wesley Walser
QUnit
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Richard D. Worth
Executive Director, UI