Credits

Gnowsis is actively developed at the Knowledge Management Group of the DFKI Kaiserslautern. The head of this group is Professor Andreas Dengel . The project manager of gnowsis is Leo Sauermann (homepage ). Many members of the DFKI have contributed to gnowsis and we also depend on code by others.

Gnowsis Team (order by firstname)

• Andreas Lauer (Engineer, DFKI) - EPOS workspace classloader and service management system
• Daniel Bahls (Hiwi, DFKI) - foafme, iconservice (since 2004).
• Dominik Heim (Hiwi, DFKI) - Miniquire user interface, gnowsis retrieval, artwork
• Heiko Maus (Researcher, DFKI) - Project Lead of EPOS which is the driving project behind gnowsis
• Leo Sauermann (Researcher, DFKI) - gnowsis project management, core developer
• Malte Kiesel (Researcher, DFKI) - Wikis
• Michael Sintek (Researcher, DFKI) - help on the IMAP adapter
• Sven Schwarz (Researcher, DFKI) - Context system, context detection and leveraging. Practical use cases.

Previous members

• Emmanuel Gasne (Hiwi, DFKI) - Mozilla XPIs (2004)
• Shen Jianping (Hiwi, DFKI) - IMAP email adapter (2004-2005)

Special Thanks go to:

• the one loving GOD who is dc:creator of everything. inference says: GOD dc:creator gnowsis.
• Ingrid Brunner-Sauermann, spouse of the project manager Leo and therefore being the most important person behind Gnowsis.
• Anja Jentzsch - organizing the gnowsis workshops in Berlin, bringing gnowsis interested people together.

Gnowsis was build on the greatest bundle of code we could find:

• Apache Software foundation Gnowsis is based on Apache Software: Lucene, Ant, XmlRpc.
• Jens VonderHeide. Mp3 library
• Jena by HPL labs
• Jacob by Dan Adler
• Jetty Web Server
• JUnit unit testing
• SkinLF the cool looks of the config tool.
• PocketXMLrpc

Thanks to:

• Gerald Reif
• Liz Turner for the gnowsis logo design.
• the family and friends of the main developers for money, food and beverage.
• Michael Zeltner for endless discussions and motivation.
• Libby Miller and Dan Brickley for Foaf
• Chris Bizer for good Software.
• Tim Berners-Lee for having the idea in the first place :-)
• Vannevar Bush for inspiring all above.