Authors

Rosegarden has had three core developers who between them are to blame for most of the application as you find it now, plus a crack team of distinguished, long-term contributors who have been doing assorted jobs around here for years.

There have been a handful of interviews with Rosegarden developers published over the years:

• Interview with D. Michael McIntyre by Joe Barr, January 2007
• Interview with Chris Cannam on mstation.org by John Littler, December 2006
• Interview for SourceForge.net Project of the Month, December 2006
• Interview in LinuxDevCenter by Howard Wen, December 2004
• Interview with Richard Bown on mstation.org by John Littler, 2003

Chris Cannam

cannam at all-day-breakfast dot com

Chris has been working on one incarnation or another of Rosegarden since the end of 1993. It was then a university project for two students, devised by professor John Fitch at the University of Bath, with Andy Green working on the MIDI sequencer and Chris on the notation editor. They were the sole developers until late in 1995.

Chris has worked on nearly every aspect of Rosegarden at some point, having been responsible for most of the notation rendering and editing, some of the file and data representation, and much of the audio and MIDI sequencing, recording, plugin, and MIDI studio management subsystems. He has mostly managed to avoid working on the segment and matrix editors. He lives in London.

Richard Bown

Richard began working on Rosegarden at the end of 1995, when he was drafted in to take over the Unix sequencer. He was responsible for the Rosegarden MIDI, audio, sequencing and recording code, and significant parts of the GUI. He retired from the project after seeing it through to the release of 1.0.

Guillaume Laurent

glaurent at telegraph-road dot org

Guillaume lives in Cannes, in the South of France. He's been using Linux since 1995, and first worked on Rosegarden in the summer of 1996, when he supplied a few hundred lines of new code in his first couple of emails. Guillaume is responsible for getting the Rosegarden project restarted, for creating the basic design and writing much of the GUI code and file and data framework, and for most of the project administration.

He has also helped maintain Gtk-- for a while, and was involved in some parts of KDE here and there. In his spare time, he works as a software engineer.

D. Michael McIntyre

dmmcintyr at users dot sourceforge dot net

Michael lives in Christiansburg, Virginia, in the United States of America. He got his first taste of Linux toward the end of 2001. He came to work at Rosegarden in December 2002, after being shamed into doing something more useful than complaining, as a consequence of his infamous posting on the Linux Audio Users mailing list. That discussion lead him to begin writing a tutorial for Rosegarden, which grew into a full-fledged book, and went on to be pronounced a "total financial disaster" by the publisher.

In the years since the book, Michael has concentrated on user support, administration, and working toward making Rosegarden a more and more serious choice for music notation. He enjoys photography, woodworking, hiking in the mountain country of the eastern US, gardening, cooking, and, of course music. He plays trumpet, alto/tenor horn, flute, recorder, guitar, and some keyboard, harmonica, and drums. In his spare time, he drives an 18-wheeler to earn the money he pours down all of these various black holes.

Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

pedro dot lopez dot cabanillas at gmail dot com

Pedro lives in Barcelona, Spain. He tried Rosegarden the first time a few days after the infamous post from Michael. He soon felt that the project was worthy of his interest, and started to actively help and contribute, bringing about countless improvements to MIDI handling, creating the new track parameters, and getting involved with bits of this and that almost everywhere in the application. Pedro works as a professional developer for a transnational company, and in his spare time contributes to several libre software projects, such as KMetronome and KMidimon. He is also an amateur musician, playing pop and classical music with flutes, and some MIDI instruments.

Heikki Junes

hjunes at gmail dot com

Heikki is a graduate student at the Low Temperature Laboratory at the Helsinki University of Technology in Helsinki, Finland, where he is currently working with helium crystals.

Heikki just showed up out of nowhere one day and asked for developer access. He has gone on to make dramatic improvements in the LilyPond export engine, and is almost single-handedly responsible for how useful and reliable it has become as a vehicle for producing high-quality printouts. He has done a lot of work on the Rosegarden Wiki, and has become quite the organizer.

Friends of Rosegarden

An ever-growing list of people are helping and have helped with coding, documenting, translating and testing Rosegarden. Take a look at the latest AUTHORS file to keep up to date on the contributors.