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Many people have already contributed to Octave's development. The following people have helped write parts of Octave or helped out in various other ways (listed alphabetically).
| Ben Abbott | Andy Adler | Joel Andersson | 
| Muthiah Annamalai | Shai Ayal | Roger Banks | 
| Ben Barrowes | Alexander Barth | David Bateman | 
| Heinz Bauschke | Karl Berry | David Billinghurst | 
| Don Bindner | Jakub Bogusz | Moritz Borgmann | 
| Marcus Brinkmann | Remy Bruno | Marco Caliari | 
| Daniel Calvelo | John C. Campbell | Jean-Francois Cardoso | 
| Joao Cardoso | Larrie Carr | David Castelow | 
| Vincent Cautaerts | Clinton Chee | Albert Chin-A-Young | 
| J. D. Cole | Martin Costabel | Michael Creel | 
| Jeff Cunningham | Martin Dalecki | Jorge Barros de Abreu | 
| Philippe Defert | Bill Denney | David M. Doolin | 
| Pascal A. Dupuis | John W. Eaton | Dirk Eddelbuettel | 
| Paul Eggert | Stephen Eglen | Peter Ekberg | 
| Rolf Fabian | Stephen Fegan | Ramon Garcia Fernandez | 
| Torsten Finke | Jose Daniel Munoz Frias | Castor Fu | 
| Eduardo Gallestey | Walter Gautschi | Klaus Gebhardt | 
| Driss Ghaddab | Nicolo Giorgetti | Michael Goffioul | 
| Glenn Golden | Tomislav Goles | Keith Goodman | 
| Etienne Grossmann | Peter Gustafson | Kai Habel | 
| William P. Y. Hadisoeseno | Benjamin Hall | Kim Hansen | 
| Soren Hauberg | Daniel Heiserer | Yozo Hida | 
| Roman Hodek | A. Scottedward Hodel | Richard Allan Holcombe | 
| Tom Holroyd | David Hoover | Kurt Hornik | 
| Christopher Hulbert | Cyril Humbert | Teemu Ikonen | 
| Alan W. Irwin | Geoff Jacobsen | Mats Jansson | 
| Cai Jianming | Steven G. Johnson | Heikki Junes | 
| Atsushi Kajita | Mohamed Kamoun | Lute Kamstra | 
| Joel Keay | Mumit Khan | Paul Kienzle | 
| Aaron A. King | Arno J. Klaassen | Geoffrey Knauth | 
| Heine Kolltveit | Ken Kouno | Oyvind Kristiansen | 
| Piotr Krzyzanowski | Volker Kuhlmann | Miroslaw Kwasniak | 
| Rafael Laboissiere | Kai Labusch | Claude Lacoursiere | 
| Walter Landry | Bill Lash | Dirk Laurie | 
| Maurice LeBrun | Friedrich Leisch | Benjamin Lindner | 
| Ross Lippert | David Livings | Erik de Castro Lopo | 
| Massimo Lorenzin | Hoxide Ma | James Macnicol | 
| Jens-Uwe Mager | Ricardo Marranita | Orestes Mas | 
| Makoto Matsumoto | Laurent Mazet | G. D. McBain | 
| Christoph Mayer | Stefan Monnier | Antoine Moreau | 
| Kai P. Mueller | Victor Munoz | Carmen Navarrete | 
| Todd Neal | Al Niessner | Rick Niles | 
| Takuji Nishimura | Eric Norum | Michael O'Brien | 
| Thorsten Ohl | Arno Onken | Luis F. Ortiz | 
| Scott Pakin | Gabriele Pannocchia | Sylvain Pelissier | 
| Per Persson | Jim Peterson | Danilo Piazzalunga | 
| Nicholas Piper | Hans Ekkehard Plesser | Tom Poage | 
| Orion Poplawski | Ondrej Popp | Jef Poskanzer | 
| Francesco Potorti | James B. Rawlings | Eric S. Raymond | 
| Balint Reczey | Michael Reifenberger | Petter Risholm | 
| Matthew W. Roberts | Andrew Ross | Mark van Rossum | 
| Kevin Ruland | Olli Saarela | Toni Saarela | 
| Juhani Saastamoinen | Ben Sapp | Alois Schloegl | 
| Michel D. Schmid | Nicol N. Schraudolph | Sebastian Schubert | 
| Ludwig Schwardt | Daniel J. Sebald | Dmitri A. Sergatskov | 
| Baylis Shanks | Joseph P. Skudlarek | John Smith | 
| Julius Smith | Shan G. Smith | Joerg Specht | 
| Quentin H. Spencer | Christoph Spiel | Richard Stallman | 
| Russell Standish | Doug Stewart | Thomas Stuart | 
| John Swensen | Ariel Tankus | Georg Thimm | 
| Duncan Temple Lang | Olaf Till | Thomas Treichl | 
| Utkarsh Upadhyay | Stefan van der Walt | Peter Van Wieren | 
| James R. Van Zandt | Gregory Vanuxem | Ivana Varekova | 
| Thomas Walter | Olaf Weber | Thomas Weber | 
| Bob Weigel | Andreas Weingessel | Michael Weitzel | 
| Fook Fah Yap | Michael Zeising | Federico Zenith | 
| Alex Zvoleff | 
Special thanks to the following people and organizations for supporting the development of Octave:
This project would not have been possible without the GNU software used in and used to produce Octave.