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6 This project is the result of years of work by many individuals and companies.
8 Many people have written or tweaked the software; the drivers, clients, server
9 and documentation have all received valuable attention from numerous sources.
11 Many of them are listed within the source code, AUTHORS file, release notes, and
12 mailing list archives, but some prefer to be anonymous.
13 This software would not be possible without their help.
22 - Arnaud Quette: project leader (since 2005), Debian packager and jack of all trades
23 - Charles Lepple: senior lieutenant
24 - Frederic Bohe: senior developer
25 - Emilien Kia: senior developer
26 - Václav Krpec: junior developer
27 - Kjell Claesson: senior developer
28 - Alexander Gordeev: junior developer
29 - Michal Soltys: junior developer
30 - David Goncalves: Python developer
31 - Jean Perriault: web consultant
32 - Eric S. Raymond: Documentation consultant
33 - Oden Eriksson: Mandriva packager
34 - Stanislav Brabec: Novell / Suse packager
35 - Michal Hlavinka: Redhat packager
36 - Antoine Colombier: trainee
38 For an up to date list of NUT developers, refer to
39 link:https://alioth.debian.org/project/memberlist.php?group_id=30602[Alioth].
44 - Russell Kroll: Founder, and project leader from 1996 to 2005
45 - Arjen de Korte: senior lieutenant
46 - Peter Selinger: senior lieutenant
47 - Carlos Rodrigues: author of the "megatec" drivers, removing the numerous
48 drivers for Megatec / Q1 protocol. These drivers have now been replaced by
49 blazer_ser and blazer_usb
50 - Niels Baggesen: ported and heavily extended upscode2 to NUT 2.0 driver model
51 - Niklas Edmundsson: has worked on 3-phase support, and upscode2 updates
52 - Martin Loyer: has worked a bit on mge-utalk
53 - Jonathan Dion: MGE internship (summer 2006), who has worked on configuration
54 - Doug Reynolds: has worked on CyberPower support (powerpanel driver)
55 - Jon Gough: has worked on porting the megatec driver to USB (megatec_usb)
56 - Dominique Lallement: Consultant (chairman of the USB/HID PDC Forum)
57 - Julius Malkiewicz: junior developer
58 - Tomas Smetana: former Redhat packager (2007-2008)
61 Our main supporter: Eaton
62 -------------------------
64 Through the acquisition of MGE Office Protection Systems (a carve out of
65 the MGE UPS SYSTEMS small systems, up to 10 KVA), Eaton has been supporting
66 NUT, and more generally the Free/Libre Opensource Software Community
69 This support includes the following actions:
71 - providing extensive technical documents (Eaton protocols library),
72 - providing units to developers of NUT and related projects,
73 - hosting the networkupstools.org webserver (from 2005 to August 2012),
75 - promoting NUT in general.
77 For more detailed information on Eaton's Opensource commitment, please refer to
78 link:http://opensource.eaton.com[Eaton Opensource website].
80 Supporting manufacturers
81 ------------------------
86 - link:http://powerquality.eaton.com[Eaton], our main supporter, as presented in
87 the <<Eaton,above section>>.
89 - link:http://www.gamatronic.com[Gamatronic], through Nadav Moskovitch, has
90 revived the 'sec' driver (as gamatronic), and expanded a bit genericups for its
91 UPSs with alarm interface.
93 - link:http://www.microdowell.com[Microdowell], through Elio Corbolante, has
94 created the 'microdowell' driver to support the Enterprise Nxx/Bxx serial devices.
95 They also proposes NUT as an alternative to its software for
96 link:http://www.microdowell.com/fra/download.html[Linux / Unix].
98 - link:http://pcmups.com.tw[Powercom], through Alexey Morozov, has provided
99 link:ups-protocols.html[extensive information] on its USB/HID devices, along
100 with development units.
102 - link:http://www.riello-ups.com[Riello UPS], through Massimo Zampieri, has
103 provided link:ups-protocols.html[all protocols information]. Elio Parisi has
104 also created riello_ser and riello_usb to support these protocols.
106 - link:http://www.tripplite.com[Tripp Lite], through Eric Cobb, has provided
107 test results from connecting their HID-compliant UPS hardware to NUT. Some of
108 this information has been incorporated into the NUT hardware compatibility
109 list, and the rest of the information is available via the
110 link:http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.monitoring.nut.user/8173[list
113 Appliances manufacturers
114 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
116 - link:http://www.opengear.com[OpenGear] has worked with NUT's leader to
117 successfully develop and integrate PDU support. Opengear, through Scott Burns,
118 and Robert Waldie, has submitted several patches.
123 - Pavel Korensky's original apcd provided the inspiration for pursuing APC's
124 smart protocol in 1996
125 - Eric Lawson provided scans of the OneAC protocol
126 - John Marley used OCR software to transform the SEC protocol scans into a HTML
128 - Chris McKinnon scanned and converted the Fortress protocol documentation
129 - Tank provided documentation on the Belkin/Delta protocol
130 - Potrans provided a Fenton PowerPal 600 (P series) for development of the
133 Older entries (before 2005)
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136 - MGE UPS SYSTEMS was the previous NUT sponsor. They provided protocols
137 information, many units for development of NUT-related projects.
138 Several drivers such as mge-utalk, mge-shut, snmp-ups, hidups, and usbhid-ups
139 are the result of this collaboration, in addition to the WMNut, MGE HID Parser
140 the libhid projects, ... through Arnaud.
141 All the MGE supporters have now gone with Eaton (through MGE Office
142 Protection Systems), which is the new NUT sponsor.
144 - Fenton Technologies contributed a PowerPal 660 to the project. Their open
145 stance and quick responses to technical inquiries were appreciated for
146 making the development of the fentonups driver possible.
147 Fenton has since been acquired by link:http://www.metapo.com[Metapo].
149 - Bo Kersey of link:http://www.vircio.com[VirCIO] provided a Best Power Fortress
150 750 to facilitate the bestups driver.
152 - Invensys Energy Systems provided the SOLA/Best "Phoenixtec" protocol
153 document. SOLA has since been acquired by Eaton.
155 - PowerKinetics technical support provided documentation on their MiniCOL
156 protocol, which is archived in the NUT protocol library.
157 PowerKinetics was acquired by the link:http://www.jst.cc[JST Group] in June 2003.
159 - link:http://www.cyberpowersystems.com[Cyber Power Systems] contributed a
160 700AVR model for testing and development of the cyberpower driver.
162 - link:http://www.liebert.com[Liebert Corporation] supplied serial test boxes
163 and a UPStation GXT2 with the Web/SNMP card for development of the liebert
164 driver and expansion of the existing snmp-ups driver.
165 Liebert has since been acquired by link:http://www.emerson.com[Emerson].
167 NOTE: If a company or individual isn't listed here, then we probably don't have
168 enough information about the situation. Developers are requested to report vendor
169 contributions to the NUT team so this list may reflect their help.
170 If we have left you out, send us some mail.