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Credits

Testing, getting user feedback, writing sample material and scripts, have all been done voluntarily by some very talented and generous people. We couldn't do it without lots of help. Many thanks to the following people for their help in getting various releases of Frontier and Radio UserLand out the door.

September 2002 -- Frontier 9.0 

Thanks again to the tens of thousands of Manila users on Frontier servers around the world, for bug reports, feature requests, and for inspiring us to keep making it better.

Thanks to our beta testers (in alphabetical order by first name), Alan German, Brian Ablaza, Daniel Berlinger, Dann Sheridan, Eric Sooros, Erin Clerico, Jack Foster Mancilla, Jeff Cheney, Marcus Mauller, Russ Lipton, Sam DeVore, and Thomas A. Creedon.

Thanks to Adam Curry, Jon Udell, Paolo Valdemarin and the many others who have provided continued support and feedback.

Thanks to Jeremy Bowers and Eric Sooros (again) for their work implementing the Jabber and AIM instant messaging protocols in Frontier and Radio.

Thanks to all the members of the Frontier and Radio communities who provided feedback to us, and support to our users, and to developers who continue to push our tools to their limits.

Thanks to Brent Simmons who helped us with upgrade scripts while he's working hard on other things.

Jake Savin, John Robb, Lawrence Lee, Dave Winer
The 9.0 team.

January 2002 -- Radio UserLand and Frontier 8.0 

First, a special thanks to the four guys who bust their butts for us every day on the lists and discussion group with great advice and incredible positive energy -- Sam DeVore, Andy Fragen, Mark Paschal, Robert Barksdale. They are filling in for us so we can do bugs and features, and without their generous and skilled help we'd be so far up the creek it's hard to imagine.

This release was the largest beta group we've ever worked with. And while it's hard to top the previous groups for intelligence, enthusiasm and hard work, this group was the most exciting to work with, and the most forgiving of our huge flaws. The software we gave them to begin with was true garbage. They stayed with us while we turned corners and broke their sites, they never complained, not once. We are so lucky to have these people helping us.

Here's the list, in alphabetic order, by first name. Adam Curry, Adam Vandenberg, Alan German, Andre Radke, Andy Fragen, Bill Humphries, Brad Rowe, Clark Venable, Clint Laskowski, Dan Mitchell, Dan Shafer, Daniel Berlinger, Dann Sheridan, Dave Kraft, David Davies, David Liske, Doug Kaye, Duncan Smeed, Emmanuel Decarie, Eric Soroos, Faisal Jawdat, Flip Phillips, Garret Vreeland, Gary Secondio, Glenn Fleishman...

Greg Hanek, Jason Levine, Jeff Barr, Jeff Cheney, Jeremiah Rogers, Jeremy Bowers, Jim McGee, JY Stervinou, Larry Staton, Karl Martino, Ken Dow, Lance Knobel, Marcus Mauller, Marek, Mark Paschal, Matt Goyer, Matt Neuburg, Meryl K. Evans, Michael Fraase, Mike Donellan, Mike Krus, Mike Spyrn, Oliver Wrede, Paolo Valdemarin, Ralph Hempel, Ray Ozzie, Rene de Vries, Robert Barksdale, Robert Occhialini, Roger Turner, Sam Devore, Sam DeVore, Sam DeVore, Scott Lemon, Scott Loftesness, Sean Gallagher, Seth Dillingham, Simone Bettini, Stan Krute, Steven Ivy, Steve Hooker, Steve Zellers, Steven Vore, Susan Kitchens, Sylvan Carle.

Thanks to Evan Williams for the Blogger API, Ulysses S. Grant for the great strategy, Al Pacino for the perfect peptalk, Evis Costello for the theme song, Mohsen Al-Ghosein and Bob Atkinson for XML-RPC, the W3C for XML, Rob Fahrni for the diagrams.

A special thanks to Cobalt for the Qube, and to Doc Searls for surrendering his Qube on demand. I was over at his house one day a few years ago and I saw the box and was shocked by its beauty. "Can I have it?" I blurted. I immediately apologized. How rude. But Doc gave it to me, and what a gift that was. As soon as I got home and set it up I knew I was looking at a revolution. A computer that is completely managed through a Web browser. It hadn't occurred to me that you could do this. It changed the way I design software, forever. Radio 8 is the next step on the path. It's like the Qube, but for Windows and Macintosh. Thanks Cobalt for showing the way.

Dave Winer, Jake Savin, John Robb, Lawrence Lee, Brent Simmons, Robert Scoble, Doug Baron.
The 8.0 team.

June 2000 -- Frontier 6.2 

Thanks to the thousands of Manila users, on EditThisPage.Com, Weblogs.Com, and on Frontier servers around the world, for bug reports, feature requests, and for inspiring us to keep making it better.

Thanks to Sheila Simmons for last-minute help in testing and polishing 6.2, for getting this release out the door. (And for many other things.) And thanks to other people who tested and provided feedback on this release: Josh Lucas, Sean Elfstrom, Philippe Martin, Matt Daw, Erin Clerico, Greg Pierce, Dave Polaschek, Jim Roepcke, Robert Occhialini, Brian V. Hughes.

Many thanks are due translators. Italian: Jerome Camus, Fabio DiMartino. French: Stéphane Volet, Fabrice Mesplé, Alain Content, Emmanuel. M. Decarie, Benoit Cazenave. Dutch: Robert Slotboom, Annie van den Heuvel. German: Christoph Lincke, Martin Spernau, Oliver Breidenbach, Oliver Wrede, Andrea Frick, Eveline Frei, Jörg Kantel.

For helping with debugging the Frontier 6.2 kernel: David Bayly, Daniel Berlinger, Scott Burton, Andrew Duncan, Alan German, Andreas Hellström, Brian Hughes, Clay Hughes, Christoph Lincke, Matthias Neeracher, Christopher Short, Chuck Shotton, Eric Soroos, Jeff Willden, Seth Dillingham.

Thanks to Ken Dow, for writing about Manila and running the Manila-Newbies site. To Matt Neuburg for writing about Frontier and pushing us to fix bugs. To Timothy Paustian for working on the Carbon port of Frontier (still to come).

Thanks to John vanDyk, Jason Levine, Samuel Reynolds, Sam Devore, Kurt J. Egger for, among their numerous contributions, writing Manila plug-ins.

For helping with the SOAP implementation (mainly by publishing their own implementation with source code): Fredrik Lundh, IBM-SOAP team.

Bob Bierman, André Radke, Jake Savin, Brent Simmons, Dave Winer
The 6.2 team.

March 1999 -- Frontier 6.0 

Jim Roepcke, Seth Dillingham, Jeff Imig, Mark Stracke, Brent Deverman, Daniel Berlinger, Josh Lucas, Matt Daw, Michael Myers, Jason Levine, Philippe Martin, Alan German, Eric Soroos, Tommy Sundstrom, David Theige, Phil Suh, all made a big difference in testing the server side of Frontier 6 while it was in development.

Thanks to other prolific and generous members of the Frontier community including Matt Neuburg, Emmanuel M. Décarie, Samuel Reynolds, Brian Andresen, Paul Howson, Doug Brewer, Deke Tallent, Henri Asseilly, Jeb Bateman, Lynne Siprelle. Thanks to Script Meridian for providing an independent place for the Frontier community to work and express itself.

Thanks to people outside the Frontier community who we worked with on projects related to Frontier 6. Michael Winser, Fredrik Lundh, Hannes Wallnöfer, Ken MacLeod, Marc Canter, Lawrence Lee, David Shinpaugh, Sally Atkins, Simeon Simeonov, John Tokash, Jeff Ballowe, Bob Atkins, Mohsen Al-Ghosein. Some of the projects yielded immediate results, and others were valuable because of the new friendships we made and the lessons we learned. Thanks!

Finally, this is the last Frontier release for Doug Baron. Doug left UserLand in mid-February, to join Corio. This has been the longest development partnership in my career, with the ups and downs that come from working closely with another person, for almost ten years. I was sorry to see Doug go, his good nature and thorough engineering skills will certainly be missed inside UserLand and on the mail lists. We'll miss him, and we send him our thanks every day as we use Frontier, thanks for more than just one great release, Doug, thanks for six!

Dave Winer and the team at UserLand
Bob Bierman, Brent Simmons, André Radke
PS: One more time!

January 1998 -- Frontier 5.0 

Philip Suh, Philippe Martin, Jim Roepcke, John Delacour, Dino Morelli, Daniel Berlinger, Linda Richards, Thea Partridge, Matt Neuburg. Terry Teague, Bijan Parsia, Chuck Shotton, Julian Melville, Leonard Rosenthol, Alan German, Faisal Jawdat, Michael Alderete, Emmanuel Decarie, Jim Correia, Preston Holmes, Seth Dillingham. Jeb Bateman, Brian Buck.

All Scripting News readers.

For clean positive energy, ideas and encouragement -- Dave Carlick, Jack Russo, Jeffrey Veen, Marc Canter, Ed Iacobucci, Tim O'Reilly, Ken Kiesler, Craig Cline, Brinka Bording, Bobby Orbach, Antonio Salerno, Viviana Guzman, Steve Wozniak, Denise Caruso, Jacob Levy, Ray Ozzie, Dan Bricklin, Greg Galanos, Marney Morris, Bernie DeKoven, Buck's, Janine Warner, Bart Simpson, Bill Lohse, Cheryl Lucanegro, Scott Lawton, John W. Baxter, Dan Shafer, Bill Gladstone, Erin Jensen, Jodi Mardesich, Chris Nolan, Dan Gillmor, Kate Adams, Cate Corcoran, Kate Seekings, Dan Farber, Scott Love, Martin Haeberli, Benjamin Feinman, Chris Gulker, Matthew Dornquast, Miss Ida Breast Deckle, Simon Hayes, Adam Bosworth, Robert Hess, Alex Hopmann, Lawrence Lee, Beatrice Bowles, Gretchen Dianda, Michael Markman.

Dave Winer, Doug Baron, Brent Simmons, Bob Bierman, Wesley Felter
The Frontier 5 Team

January 1997 -- Frontier 4.2/Mac 

Preston Holmes, Jim Correia, Leonard Rosenthol, Danis Georgiadis, Brent Simmons, Scott Lawton, Alan German.

Everyone from previous releases.

All DaveNet subscribers.

For clean positive energy, ideas and encouragement -- Chuck Shotton, Chris Gulker, Craig Cline, Kevin Compton, Janet Vratny, Jean-Louis Gassée, Benoît Schillings, Brigham Stevens, Eric Schmidt, Larry Tesler, Kim Polese, Steve Wozniak, Andy Ihnatko, Robert Hess, Greg Galanos, Heidi Roizen, Glenn Davis, Mason Hale, Jordan Mattson, Scott Shwarts, Alex Hopmann.

October 1996 -- Frontier 4.1/Mac 

Everyone on the Frontier-talk list especially Preston Holmes and Brent Simmons. Thanks to Dick Munroe for operating the Frontier list servers and the backbone of the LTODBS.

More! Chuck Shotton, Don Bradford, Leonard Rosenthol, Alan German, Danis Georgiadis, Sally Atkins, Kim Polese, Spud, Jon Stevens, Brent Deverman, Henri Asseily, Jim Correia, Mark Alldritt, Scott Lawton, Maya, Ed Iacobucci, Wesley Felter, Roy and Bruce Leban, Raines Cohen, Tattoo Mabonzo.

A special thanks to Steven Noreyko for saving the User's Guide.

May 1996 -- Frontier 4.0/Mac 

Alan German, Aleks Totic, Andre Radke, Barton, Brian Buck, Brent Simmons, Cameron Smith, Chip Bayers, Chuck Shotton, Chris Gulker, Daniel Berlinger, Diana Oswald, Dick Munroe, Don Bradford, Eric Newman, "Eugene Barnes", Fred Terry, Glenn Davis, Greg Galanos, Harbin Hot Springs, Heidi Roizen, HotWired, Ignatius Reilly, Jack Russo, John Russo, John Baxter, Jon Pugh, Jon Stevens, June Cohen, Kim Polese, Kyle Jessup, Leonard Rosenthol, Manton Reece, Marc Andreessen, Mason Hale, Mike Hutchinson, Peter N Lewis, Preston Holmes, Rich Siegel, Scott Lawton, Spud, Steve Dorner, Steven Noreyko, Steve Zellers, Wesley Felter, Wegman's.

From the Frontier 3.0 page 

The best darned test sites this side of the Continental Divide.

Baiss E. Magnusson, Bob DeLaurentis, Bob Schumaker, Chris Ryland, Dave Ely, David Shaver, Don Olson, Donald Brown, Ed Draper, Eugene Barnes, Joe Sewell, John W. Baxter, Leonard Rosenthol, Mark Sundstrom, Mayson Lancaster, Mike Cohen, Percy Earley, Peter Dako, Reede Stockton, Rich Parker, Richard Scorer, Scott S. Lawton, Steve Michel, Steve Zellers, Stew Rubenstein, Terry Teague, Tom Trinko.

Special call-out to the 1992 Rookie of the Year, Peter Dako, and to John Baxter, whose installation into the Frontier hall of fame seems a sure thing at this point.

Thanks to all of you guys for making Frontier 3.0 possible!

From the Frontier 1.0 page 

We would particularly like to thank the following people:

Randy Battat, Tracy Beiers, Eagle Berns, Tony Bove, Don Brown, Kevin Calhoun, Ben Calica, Dave Carlick, Datapak Software, Fred Davis, Pam Deziel, Chris Espinosa, Rich Gartland, Jean-Louis Gassée, Dave Jacobs, Christoph Jaggi, Bob LeVitus, Steve Levy, Rich McEachern, Steve Michel, Mike O'Connor, Michael Odawa, Tom Petaccia, Leonard Rosenthal, Jack Russo, Art Schumer, Francis Stanbach, Reede Stockton, Pete Stoddard, Michael Swaine, David Szetela, Terry Teague, Scott Trotter, Eve Winer, Leon Winer, Peter Winer, Mark Womack.

And to our worldwide family of beta sites, too numerous to mention here. Thanks!

Alice Lankester, Judi Lowenstein, Dan Shafer, Doug Baron, Dave Winer.
The original 1991 product team.

Interesting note 

We've been blessed with some great friendships that helped make Frontier really work. There is some hope in these lists, and sometimes that hope wasn't realized. People come and go. Some people deliver and some don't. But...

Leonard Rosenthol is on the first six lists!

A very special thanks to Leonard for believing in this stuff and putting his beliefs into his software.

Dave Winer, Doug Baron