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  DITA Open Toolkit is developed and maintained by a small group of volunteers who work on the
  project in their spare time.
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  The toolkit was originally developed within IBM and was open-sourced in 2005. Since that time,
  DITA-OT has been updated significantly by various companies and individuals.
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<h2 id="core_committers">Core Committers</h2>
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        <h4 class="media-heading">Robert D Anderson</h4>
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          Robert is the project lead and a core developer of DITA-OT, representing
          <a href="https://www.oracle.com/">Oracle</a>. He's also the co-editor of the OASIS DITA
          specification and occasionally writes about DITA &amp; DITA-OT at
          <a href="http://www.metadita.org/toolkit/">metadita.org</a>.
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          <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jelovirt">Jarno Elovirta</a>
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          Jarno is the lead developer of DITA-OT, working on the project as an individual
          contributor in his spare time. He occasionally writes development-related posts at
          <a href="https://www.elovirta.com/">elovirta.com</a> and is available for commercial
          projects via <a href="https://www.wunderdog.fi/">Wunderdog</a>.
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          <a href="https://github.com/sponsors/jelovirt">
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<h2 id="documentation_lead">Documentation Lead</h2>
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    <h4 class="media-heading">Roger W. Fienhold Sheen</h4>
    <p>
      Roger is an information architect and independent DITA consultant at
      <a href="https://infotexture.net/">infotexture</a>. He helps to maintain the DITA-OT
      documentation and project website in his spare time.
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<h2 id="additional_contributors">Additional Contributors</h2>
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  <li>Kristen James Eberlein, <a href="http://eberleinconsulting.com/">Eberlein Consulting</a></li>
  <li>Eliot Kimber, <a href="http://rsicms.com">Really Strategies, Inc</a></li>
  <li>Radu Coravu, <a href="http://www.sync.ro/">SyncRO Soft</a></li>
  <li>George Bina, <a href="http://www.sync.ro/">SyncRO Soft</a></li>
  <li>Eero Helenius, independent contributor</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="previous_contributors">Previous Contributors</h2>
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  <li>Eric Sirois, <a href="http://www.ibm.com/">IBM</a> — Core developer</li>
  <li>
    沈剑乐 (Jian Le Shen, &#8220;Jason&#8221;), <a href="http://www.ibm.com/">IBM</a> — Primary
    developer within IBM
  </li>
  <li>
    Reuven Weiser, <a href="http://suite-sol.com/">Suite Solutions</a> — PDF2 plug-in developer
  </li>
  <li>Don Day, <a href="http://www.ibm.com/">IBM</a> — Original project lead</li>
  <li>
    Stephen Zhang, <a href="http://www.ibm.com/">IBM</a> — Primary developer through the first
    several years of the toolkit
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  <li>Chris Wong — Original contributor of the PDF2 plugin</li>
  <li>Deborah Pickett, Moldflow — Frequent developer and contributor</li>
  <li>
    Dick Johnson and Anna van Raaphorst, VR Communications, Inc — Original contributors of the DITA
    User Guide
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  <li>Rob Justice, individual contributor — DITA-OT documentation</li>
  <li>
    Aryeh Sanders, <a href="http://www.suite-sol.com/">Suite Solutions</a> — PDF2 plug-in developer
  </li>
</ul>