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User, Installation and Coding Guide Authors and Editors:
| Tara Athan | Radim Blazek | Godofredo Contreras | Claudia A. Engel |
| Otto Dassau | Martin Dobias | Juergen E. Fischer | Anne Ghisla |
| Stephan Holl | Marco Hugentobler | Magnus Homann | Tim Sutton |
| Lars Luthman | Gavin Macaulay | Werner Macho | Carson J.Q. Farmer |
| Tyler Mitchell | Brendan Morely | Gary E. Sherman | David Willis |
With thanks to Tisham Dhar for preparing the initial msys (MS Windows) environment documentation, to Tom Elwertowski and William Kyngesburye for help in the MAC OSX Installation Section and to Carlos D\'{a}vila, Paolo Cavallini and Christian Gunning for revisions. If we have neglected to mention any contributors, please accept our apologies for this oversight.
