BarnOwl was primarily written by Nelson Elhage and Alejandro Sedeno at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The following people have provided patches or other contributions: Alex Vandiver Kevin Chen Arun Tharuvai Sam Hartman Derrick Brashear David Glasser Eric Price Matthew Goldstein Geoffrey Thomas Anders Kaseorg Greg Price Chris Lesniewski-Laas Alex Dehnert Edward Z. Yang Karl Ramm Evan Broder David Benjamin Cathy Zhang Joshua Oreman Leonid Grinberg Kevin Riggle Brian Sniffen William Throwe Jason Gross Adam Glasgall Tim Hill DD Liu Betsy Riley Robert Jacobs BarnOwl is based on code from Owl, which was originally primarily written by James Kretchmar. Erik Nygren also made substantial contributions and improvements to the program. The following people provided patches and other technical support for Owl: Stephen Gildea Greg Hudson David Resnick Marc Horowitz Jeremy Daniel Roman Mitz Derrick J Brashear David Glasser Mark Eichin Mark Eichin is also maintaining the Debian package of Owl. The following people helped with beta testing the earliest versions of Owl: Andy Ellis, Erin Panttaja, Gisele Proulx Ron Hoffmann, Jag Patel, Tara Holm Heather Wakefield, Emiliy Havens, Matt Braun, Jeff Schiller The ASCII art owl was created by Anne LaVin.