Team

Here is the troupe of all star international caberet artists responsible for making Ubuntu MATE a thing. If you’d like to get involved then please let us know.

Founders

The loons who thought Ubuntu MATE would be a good idea.

• Martin Wimpress Project co-founder. MATE Desktop developer and Ubuntu MATE project lead.
• Alan Pope Project co-founder. Cheer leader and enthusiasm co-ordinator.

Developers

MATE Desktop developers and contributors who have been helping develop and test Ubuntu MATE.

• Vlad Orlov Developer of MATE Desktop and bug-fix king.
• Wolfgang Ulbrich Developer of MATE Desktop and theme maintainer.
• Luke Developer of MATE Desktop, theme maintainer and bug hunter.
• Pablo Barciela Developer of MATE Desktop and theme maintainer.
• Alexei Sorokin Contributor to MATE Desktop and Ubuntu MATE.
• Ikey Doherty Lead Developer of Solus and MATE Desktop contributor.
• Sefan Ric Developer of Solus and MATE Desktop contributor.
• Luke Horwell Developer of Ubuntu MATE, web designer and community moderator.
• Victor Kareh Contributor to MATE Desktop, Ubuntu MATE and MATE Dock Applet.
• Robin Thompson Lead developer of MATE Dock Applet and Ubuntu MATE contributor.
• Konstantin Pugin Lead developer of Global Menu for MATE Panel and MATE Desktop contributor.
• Johnny Dennis Lead developer of tomxplayer for the Raspberry Pi.
• Larry Bushey Documentation writer and author of Ubuntu MATE: Upgrading from Windows or OSX.

Maintainers

The heroes from the Debian packaging team. Without their tireless efforts there would be no Ubuntu MATE.

• Mike Gabriel Debian Developer and MATE package maintainer for Debian.
• Aron Xu Debian Developer and MATE package maintainer for Debian.
• Vangelis Mouhtsis MATE package maintainer for Debian.

Quality Assurance & Testing

• Etienne Papegnies QA lead and forum moderator.
• Alexandru Polihron QA engineer.
• Alexander Browne QA engineer.

Art & Design

• Roberto Perico Graphic design and digital artist.

Community

The moderators of the community who keep it running in good shape.

• Caleb Howland Facebook page administrator.

Contributors

The following people have made infrequent, yet significant, contributions to the Ubuntu MATE project.

• Sam Hewitt Creator the Ubuntu MATE logo.
• Daniel Foré Improver of Ubuntu MATE icon theme.
• Simon Quigley MoTU and back porter of signifcant bug fixes that directly benefit Ubuntu MATE.  * Rohith Madhavan Created the initial Raspberry Pi 2 build of Ubuntu MATE.
• Goce Mitevski Created the default desktop wallpaper used from Ubuntu MATE 14.10 to 17.04.
• Michael Tunnell Toucher upper of GTK art assets.  * Pedro Meteus IGP and GPU configuration enhancements for reduced video tearing and improved gaming performance.
• Ivan Pejić Created the Ubuntu MATE GRUB and Plymouth themes.
• Jack Mohegan Assorted user interface improvements.
• Jonathan Nadeau assistive technology advisor and accessibility testing.
• Matt Hartley user experience advisor.
• Adam Smith Created the initial PowerPC build of Ubuntu MATE.