Open Source Drawing Software for Children

Hundreds of people from all around the world have been involved in creating Tux Paint! Check out some statistics, too.

Many of the developers are subscribed to the various Tux Paint mailing lists (which anyone may subscribe to). Some developers can also be found on the #tux4kids IRC (live chat) channel on FreeNode.

Lead Developer

• Bill Kendrick — Lead Developer (Davis, California, USA)
  Bill has developed numerous Open Source games for Linux, which, like Tux Paint, have found themselves running on a variety of other operating systems thanks to others. See: www.newbreedsoftware.com.

Developers, Packagers and Porters

• Ben Armstrong — Debian Linux packages & bugfixes (Canada)
  Ben constructs the Tux Paint packages for the free 'Debian' distribution of Linux. He has also provided bugfixes and suggested many improvements for Tux Paint's build system.
• Pere Pujal Carabantes — Catalan
  Pere has provided numerous suggestions and bugfixes, created new Magic tools, and improved on some existing ones.
• Albert Cahalan — Additional colors, smudge tool, various fixes
  Albert helped improve Tux Paint running on Linux, Macs, and the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop, created an expanded color palette, added the 'Smudge' and 'Bricks' magic tools, added support for picking up system fonts, improved the font selector, and provided numerous other patches.
• Andrew Corcoran — New Magic tools
  Andrew participated as a student in Google Summer of Code in 2008, and added new tools to Tux Paint.
• Jeffrey Drake — Mac OS X port of Tux Paint Config (Canada)
  Jeffrey built Tux Paint Config for OS X (on very short notice, and very quickly!)
• Martin Fuhrer — Mac OS X port & improvements and Tux Paint Config updates (Canada)
  Martin packaged Tux Paint and Tux Paint Stamps, and provided the OS X build files.
• Fabian Franz — Localization Code, Mousewheel Support (Germany)
  Fabian provided the code that allowed Tux Paint to change from English- and Spanish-only to being able to support practically every written language in the world! He also wrote the mousewheel code.
• Torsten Giebl — Tux Paint Config, Slackware Linux packages
  Torsten constructs the Tux Paint packages for the 'Slackware' distribution of Linux and was the original developer of the Tux Paint Config application.
• Christian Hammond — Nokia 770 port (Palo Alto, California, USA)
  Christian updated Tux Paint to support Nokia's Linux-based handheld.
• Max Horn — Mac OS X port (Germany)
  Max has made countless Macintosh users happy by helping produce the OS X port of Tux Paint.
• Henry House — PostScript printing assistance (Davis, California, USA) Henry assisted with libpaper support.
• Karl Ove Hufthammer — Localization Support (Bergen, Norway)
  Karl has been instrumental in getting Tux Paint to 'do the right thing' when supporting various languages.
• Richard June — RPM package specification improvements. (Indiana, USA)
• Thomas Kalka — PostScript printing assistance
  Thomas improved print scaling.
• Mark K. Kim — Input Method implementation (New York City, New York, USA)
  Mark implemented the input method framework for Tux Paint, as well as the Korean and Japanese input method state machines for the framework.
• Thomas Klausner — NetBSD port (Austria)
  Thomas builds Tux Paint for the NetBSD operating system.
• Marcin 'Shard' Konicki — BeOS port
  Marcin created some BeOS ports of Tux Paint.
• Tetsu Ono — Sharp Zaurus port
  Tetsu built Tux Paint to run on the Sharp Zaurus Linux-based PDA.
• John Popplewell — Windows port & bugfixes (England)
  John creates the Windows installer and ZIP-file versions of Tux Paint, and has provided numerous bugfixes. He also created Tux Paint's printing functionality for Windows.
• Alejandro Pulver — FreeBSD port
  Alejandro packaged Tux Paint for the FreeBSD operating system.
• Adam Rakowski — New Magic tools
  Adam participated as a student in Google Summer of Code in 2008, and added new tools to Tux Paint.
• Luc 'Begasus' Schrijvers — BeOS port
  Luc helped update Tux Paint's BeOS build system and creates the current BeOS ports.
• Shin-ichi Toyama — 800x600 support, RPM packages (Japan)
  Toyama helped expand Tux Paint to a larger canvas, for users craving more drawing space.
• Darrell Walisser — Mac OS X port
  Darrell has made countless Macintosh users happy by helping produce the OS X port of Tux Paint.
• Jan Wynholds — Tux Paint Config (Davis, California, USA)
  Jan continued work on the Tux Paint Config application.

Translators

The following people have helped translate Tux Paint itself, the documentation, the descriptions in the stamp collection, and/or this website.

• Khalid Al Holan — Arabic
• Daniel Andersson — Swedish
• Joana Portia Antwi-Danso — Twi (Winneba, Ghana)
• Adorilson Bezerra de Araujo — Brazilian Portuguese (Brazil)
• Xandru Armesto — Asturian (Asturias, Spain)
• Ravishankar Ayyakkannu — Tamil
• Dr. Martin Benjamin — Swahili (Connecticut, USA)
• Leor Bleier — Hebrew
• Lucie Burianova — Czech
• Laurentiu Buzdugan — Romanian
• Herman Bruyninckx — Dutch (Belgium)
• Pere Pujal Carabantes — Catalan
• Vaclav Cermak — Czech
• Ouychai Chaita — Thai (Thailand)
• Wei-Lun Chao — Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
• Jérôme Chantreau — French documentation
• Jacques Chion — French (France)
• Urska Colner — Slovenian (Slovenia)
• Helder Correia — Portuguese
• Ricardo Cruz — Portuguese (Portugual)
• Magnus Dahl — Swedish
• Laurent Dhima — Albanian
• Haby Diallo — Wolof (Senegal)
• Yavor Doganov — Bulgarian
• Dawa Dolma — Tibetan
• Kevin Donnelly — Welsh (Wales)
• Dovix — Hebrew
• Korvigelloù An Drouizig (Philippe) — Breton
• Serhij Dubyk — Ukrainian (Ukraine)
• Silvio Faria — Brazilian Portuguese (Brazil)
• Jamil Farzana — Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan)
• Doruk Fisek — Turkish (Turkey)
• Fabian Franz — German (Germany)
• Torok Gabor — Hungarian (Hungary)
• Gabriel Gazzan — Spanish (Uruguay)
• Robert Glowczynski — Polish (Poland)
• Chris Goerner — Australian English
• Gintaras Goštautus — Lithuanian (Lithuania)
• Mikel González — Asturian (Spain)
• The Greek Linux i18n Team — Greek
• Frederico Goncalves Guimaraes — Brazilian Portuguese (Brazil)
• Guy Hed — Hebrew (Israel)
• Tedi Heriyanto — Indonesian
• Pjetur G. Hjaltason — Icelandic
• Knut Erik Hollund — Norwegian Bokmal
• Henrik Holst — Swedish (Sweden)
• Song Huang — Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
• Karl Ove Hufthammer — Norwegian Nynorsk, Norwegian Bokmal (Bergen, Norway)
• Roland Illig — German (Germany)
• Daniel Illingworth — Mexican Spanish
• Indigenas Sin Fronteras — Zapoteco (Mexico)
• Juan Irigoien — Basque
• Itai — Hebrew
• Dmitriy Ivanov — Russian (California, USA)
• Mogens Jæger — Danish (Denmark)
• Lis Gøthe í Jákupsstovu — Faroese
• Nedjeljko Jedvaj — Croatian
• Aleksandar Jelenak — Serbian
• Rasmus Erik Voel Jense — Danish (Denmark)
• Wang Jian — Simplified Chinese (China)
• Amed Jiyan — Korean
• Klaus Ade Johnstad — Norwegian Bokmal
• Petri Jooste — Afrikaans (South Africa)
• Andrej Kacian — Slovakian (Slovakia)
• Jorma Karvonen — Finnish
• Gabor Kelemen — Hungarian (Hungary)
• Mark K. Kim — Korean (New York, USA)
• Koby — Hebrew
• Ines Kovacevic — Slovenian (Slovenia)
• Mantas Kriauciunas — Lithuanian (Lithuania)
• Freek de Kruijf — Dutch (Netherlands)
• Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz — Polish (Poland)
• Serafeim Kyriaki — Greek (Greece)
• J.F.M. Lange — Gronings (Netherlands)
• Matthew Lange — Canadian English
• Tiago Lebre — Portuguese
• Sohyun Iris Lee — Korean sounds
• Niko Lewman — Finnish (Helsinki, Finland)
• Arkadiusz Lipiec — Polish (Poland)
• Ricky Lontoc — Tagalog
• Dag H. Loras — Norwegian Bokmal
• Burkhard Lück — German (Germany)
• Ankit Malik — Hindi (India)
• Neskie Manuel — Shuswap
• Fred Ulisses Maranhao — Brazilian Portuguese (Brazil)
• Yannig MARCHEGAY (Kokoyaya) — Occitan
• Jorge Mariano — Hebrew
• Sergio Marques — Portuguese
• Martin — Czech (Czech Republic)
• Marco Milanesi — Italian (Italy)
• Kartik Mistry — Gujarati
• Mugunth — Tamil (Malaysia)
• Samuel Murray (Groenkloof) — Afrikaans (South Africa)
• Mikkel Kirkgaard Nielsen — Danish (Denmark)
• Alesis Novik — Lithuanian
• Daniel Nylander — Swedish (Sweden)
• Gareth Owen — British English
• Yannis Papatzikos — Greek (Greece)
• Nikolay Parukhin — Russian
• Dr. Alberto Escudero Pascual — Swahili (Spain)
• Flavio Pastore — Italian (Italy)
• Rasmus Ljungmann Pedersen — Danish
• Le Quang Phan — Vietnamese (Viet Nam)
• Henrik Pihl — Estonian (Estonia)
• Auk Piseth — Khmer (Cambodia)
• Pablo Pita — Spanish
• Milan Plzik — Slovakian (Slovakia)
• Piet Pompies — Afrikaans
• Sergei Popov — Russian (Russia)
• Rodrigo Perez Ramirez — Zapoteco (Mexico)
• Leandro Regueiro — Galician
• Simona Riva — Italian (Italy)
• Michael de Rooij — Dutch (Netherlands)
• Ilir Rugova — Albanian
• Jaroslav Rynik — Slovak (England)
• Bert Saal — Dutch
• Pablo Saratxaga — Walloon
• Samuel Sarpong — Twi (Winneba, Ghana)
• Kevin Scannell — Irish Gaelic (Missouri, USA)
• Pavithran Shakamuri — Telugu
• Gia Shervashidze — Georgian (Georgia)
• Clytie Siddall — Vietnamese (Australia)
• Kliment Simoncev — Macedonian
• Tomas Skäre — Swedish
• Sokratis Sofianopoulos — Greek (Greece)
• Khoem Sokhem — Khmer (Cambodia)
• Geert Stams — Dutch (Netherlands)
• Peter Sterba — Czech (California, USA)
• Raivis Strogonovs — Latvian
• Luis C. Suárez — Mexican Spanish
• Tomasz 'karave' Tarach — Polish (Poland)
• Peter Tuhársky — Slovak (Slovakia)
• Ignacio Tike — Mexican Spanish (Chile)
• Tilo — Arabic
• Tarmo Toikkanen — Finnish (Finland)
• Shin-ichi Toyama — Japanese (Japan)
• Niall Tracey — Scottish Gaelic
• tropikhajma — Czech (Czech Republic)
• Matej Urban — Slovenian
• Rita Verbauskaite — Lithuanian (Lithuania)
• Daniel Jose Viana — Brazilian Portuguese (Brazil)
• Charles Vidal — French (France)
• Frank Weng — Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
• Muhammad Najmi Ahmad Zabidi — Malay
• Eugene Zelenko — Russian and Belarusian (California, USA)
• Martin Zhekov — Bulgarian (Bulgaria)
• Huang Zuzhen — Chinese (Simplified)

Stamp Artists and Photographers

• Ahmed Al-Shukaili
• Nicu Buculei
• Pere Pujal i Carabantes
• The Childsplay project (http://childsplay.sourceforge.net/)
• Jacques Chion — (France)
• Jennifer and Edward Collins — (California, USA)
• DoodleLoo's
• Mike Fitzpatrick
• Caroline Ford — (England)
• Chris Goerner — (Australia)
• Steve Karg
• Bill Kendrick — (California, USA)
• Peter Malinowsky
• Marketplace Food (http://www.marketplacefood.com/)
• Boris Matovic
• Ed Montgomery — (Canada)
• NASA and NSSDC (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/)
• National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/)
• Wingsze Seaman
• John O'Sullivan
• Towani Organic Farm — (Bangor, California, USA)
• Jim Trice
• Wikipedia & Wikimedia Commons contributors (various) (http://www.wikipedia.org/)
• George Wong
• Justin Zeigler

Website

• Bill Kendrick — main design and development (California, USA)
• Karl Ove Hufthammer — conversion from HTML tables to CSS (Bergen, Norway)

Support and Inspiration

• Sam "Criswell" Hart — Tux4Kids project manager (Arizona, USA)
  Sam is head of Tux4Kids, which has helped support and produce Tux Paint, and provides our mailing lists.
• Stephen Matthew Helms — inspiration (California, USA)
  Stephen suggested that Linux needed a kid-friendly paint program, which in turn was the reason Tux Paint was created!
• SourceForge — CVS repository and file hosting
  SourceForge provides free services for Tux Paint, which has helped speed up its development and distribution.

Other Credits

• Denis Bodor
  Denis's "AquaPro" script for The Gimp was used to create the great looking UI graphics in Tux Paint.
• Sam "Criswell" Hart, Larry Ewing
  Larry created the original 'Tux' penguin for Linux 2.0. Sam's rendition is used in Tux Paint.
• Daniel 'TuxthePenguin' Alston — (London, England)
  Daniel plays the voice of Tux the Penguin in Tux Paint.
• Primoz Peterlin — (Slovenia)
  Primoz's 'Free Universal Character Set Outline Fonts' are used in Tux Paint.
• Damian Yerrick — (Indiana, USA)
  Damian's flood-fill code example (found at Wikipedia) is used in Tux Paint.
• Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Sam Lantinga, et. al.
  Without their great free operating system, compilers and tools, Tux Paint would not have been possible.

Additional Thanks

• Ryan C. Gordon of icculus.org for donating a Mac mini for testing and development.
• Numerous testers, promoters, teachers, parents and children for using, enjoying and sharing Tux Paint!

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