Credits

Projects such as A/DeMuDi are the result of the common effort of a very large pool of motivated people. And indeed, giving credit to any deserving individual that contributed to these projects is virtually impossible. Therefore, we decided to make an arbitrarily small selection of those without whose help A/DeMuDi would not probably exist.

First of all, we would like to thank Richard Stallman, without whose effort Free Software would not exist at all; Linus Torvalds, who contributed the operating system we all got to depend on in the last dozen of years; and Ian Murdock who started Debian, the wonderful packaging infrastructure A/DeMuDi is based on, along with all the Debian developers whose constant effort makes our task so much easier. Then, Marco Trevisani, who has been pushing the envelope of a Free audio/music system for years, Dave Phillips, Gunter Geiger, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano, Francois Dechelle and Davide Rocchesso: all these people have been working (and still work) on these concepts and ideas since the early days. Georg Greve, the president of Free Software Foundation Europe, has guided us through the difficulties of carrying out a rigorous Free Software project: may his patience be awarded by the warmest thanks.

Other people that deserve our gratitude are: Philippe Aigrain and Jean-Francois Junger, the European Commission officials that have been promoting the idea that AGNULA was a viable project against all odds inside the Commission itself; Dirk Van Rooy, later AGNULA Project Officer, Marc Leman and Xavier Perrot, patient AGNULA Project Reviewers; Luca Mantellassi and Giovanni Nebiolo, respectively President of Firenze's Chamber of Commerce and CEO of Firenze Tecnologia, for their support: they have understood the innovative potential of Free Software much better than many so-called open-source evangelists; all folks on the AGNULA mailing lists for contributing so much to the project by supporting new users and helping in bug reporting.

Moreover we wish to thank Roberto Bresin and the rest of the Department of Speech Music and Hearing (KTH, Stockholm), for kindly hosting the AGNULA server.

Finally, last but not least, Anna Meo and Nicola Giosmin, close collaborators for many years in all these (and other) endeavours, deserve all our endless esteem and gratitude: without them, a lot of these achievements would have made our life much harder than it has been.