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Founders

The loons who thought it was a good idea.

Alan Pope
Alan Pope
Works at Canonical Ubuntu Member
Martin Wimpress
Martin Wimpress
Works at Canonical Ubuntu Member MATE Desktop Team Code Contributor Package Maintainer

The Team

The folks making decisions and steering the ship.

Alexandru Polihron
Alexandru Polihron
Ubuntu MATE Quality Assurance Tester
Bill (franksmcb)
Bill (franksmcb)
Ubuntu MATE Bug Hunter Quality Assurance Tester
Jeff Labonte
Jeff Labonte
Ubuntu MATE Code Contributor
Larry Bushey
Larry Bushey
Ubuntu MATE Documentation Contributor
Matthew Keeler
Matthew Keeler
Ubuntu MATE Community Quality Assurance Tester
Michael Dooley
Michael Dooley
Ubuntu MATE Community Quality Assurance Tester
Monica Madon
Monica Madon
Ubuntu MATE Documentation Contributor
Nikolay Strelkov
Nikolay Strelkov
Ubuntu MATE Quality Assurance Tester
Victor Kareh
Victor Kareh
Ubuntu MATE MATE Desktop Team Quality Assurance Tester

Wider Community

These people indirectly contribute to make things possible.

Alexei Sorokin
Alexei Sorokin
MATE Desktop Team Bug Hunter
Jon Uhler
Jon Uhler
Ubuntu MATE Bug Hunter
Luke Kuhn
Luke Kuhn
MATE Desktop Team Artwork Contributor Bug Hunter
Mike Gabriel
Mike Gabriel
MATE Desktop Team Package Maintainer
Pablo Barciela
Pablo Barciela
MATE Desktop Team Artwork Contributor
Roberto Perico
Roberto Perico
Artwork Contributor
Vangelis Mouhtsis
Vangelis Mouhtsis
MATE Desktop Team Package Maintainer
Vlad Orlov
Vlad Orlov
MATE Desktop Team Bug Fixer
Wolfgang Ulbrich
Wolfgang Ulbrich
MATE Desktop Team Artwork Contributor

Notable Contributors

These people made history with the distro.

Etienne Papegnies
Etienne Papegnies
Moderator, QA Lead
Ubuntu MATE Community Quality Assurance Tester
Goce Mitevski
Goce Mitevski
Default Wallpaper (14.10-17.04)
Artwork Contributor
Ikey Doherty
Ikey Doherty
Brisk Menu
Code Contributor
Ivan Pejić
Ivan Pejić
GRUB/Plymouth Themes
Artwork Contributor
Konstantin Pugin
Konstantin Pugin
Global Menu (MATE Panel)
Code Contributor
Luke Horwell
Luke Horwell
In-house Developer (2015-2020)
Ubuntu MATE Code Contributor Community Documentation Contributor Artwork Contributor
Robin Thompson
Robin Thompson
MATE Dock Applet
Code Contributor
Sam Hewitt
Sam Hewitt
Ubuntu MATE Logo
Artwork Contributor

Contributors & Special Thanks

These people have made significant, singular contributions or have served as team members in the past.

  • Alexander Browne: Former QA engineer for Ubuntu MATE
  • Aron Xu: Debian developer and former MATE package maintainer for Debian
  • Daniel Foré: Improver of the Ubuntu MATE icon theme
  • Jack Mohegan: Assorted user interface improvements
  • Johnny Dennis: Lead developer of tomxplayer for the Raspberry Pi
  • Jonathan Nadeau: Assistive technology advisor and accessibility testing
  • Matt Hartley: User experience advisor
  • Michael Tunnell: Toucher-upper of GTK art assets
  • Pedro Meteus: IGP and GPU enhancements for improved video and gaming
  • Sefan Ric: Solus developer and former MATE Desktop contributor
  • Simon Quigley: MOTU and former sponsor and oversight of MATE Desktop packages
  • Tim Apple: Former QA engineer for Ubuntu MATE

Kickstarters

These initial efforts helped the project officially support different ventures.

  • Adam Smith: Created the initial PowerPC build of Ubuntu MATE
  • Rohith Madhavan: Created the initial Raspberry Pi 2 build of Ubuntu MATE