# People. Processing is a community effort led by a small group of volunteers.

Project Leads Ben Fry and Casey Reas started Processing in Spring 2001 and continue to obsessively work on it. In 2012, they started the Processing Foundation along with Dan Shiffman, who formally joined as a third project lead. Developers Andres Colubri (Boston), OpenGL / Video Elie Zananiri (New York), Contributed Libraries / Tools Samuel Pottinger (San Francisco), Processing Core Libraries, Tools The core Processing software is augmented by libraries and tools contributed through the community. These inventive extensions are a bright future for the project. We have a list of Contributed Libraries and Contributed Tools posted online. These contributions can't be underestimated. For example, see how Karsten Schmidt (London) has transformed Processing through the toxiclibs library and how Damien Di Fede (Austin) has extended the project into programming sound through his minim library. Alumni Jakub Valtar (Brno), Processing Core Scott Garner (New York), Hello Processing Website Scott Murray (San Francisco), Website / Reference / UI Gottfried Haider (Los Angeles), Processing for Pi Florian Jenett (Frankfurt), Forum Jamie Kosoy (San Francisco), Website Manindra Moharana (San Diego), PDE / Core James Grady (Boston), Visual Design Patrick Hebron, Video Library (Summer 2011) Peter Kalauskas, Library/Tool/Mode Install Utility (Summer, Fall 2011) Andreas Schlegel, Libraries (Winter 2008 - Summer 2011) Harshani Nawarathna, Processing Development Environment (Summer 2011) Cindy Chi, Reference Editing (Summer 2011) Jonathan Feinberg, Parsing & Android Hacking (Spring 2011) Chris Lonnen, Processing Development Environment (Summer 2011) Eric Jordan, Graphics Weapon (2007 - 2009) Tom Carden, Processing Hacks Director (Summer 2005 - Fall 2008) Lenny Burdette, Website renovation (Summer 2005 - Winter 2006) Simon Greenwold, Lighting and Camera (Winter 2005) Kevin Cannon, Website CSS (Fall 2004) Toxi, Graphics Gem (Summer 2003 - Summer 2004) Ariel Malka, Bagel Papa Poules (Summer 2003 - Winter 2004) Martin Gomez, Web engines (Spring 2003) Mikkel Crone Koser, Windows Platform Czar (Summer 2003 - Winter 2004) Koen Mostert, Windows Platform Czar (Summer 2003 - Winter 2004) Timothy Mohn, Platform Czar Mac (Winter 2003 - Winter 2004) Dan Mosedale, Preprocessor and Compiler (Spring, Summer 2003) Carlos Rocha, Sound and Graphics (Spring, Summer 2003) Jacob Schwartz, Windows Platform Czar (Winter 2003 - Winter 2004) Cem Uzunoglu, Web Scripts for Exhibition (Summer 2003) Dara Kilicoglu, Web Scripts for Exhibition (Summer 2003) Sami Arola, 3D Graphics Engine (Summer 2003) Marc Escobosa, Reference Engine (Spring 2003) Mathias Dahlström, Examples, Reference (Spring 2003) Dan Haskovec, Processing Environment (Summer 2003) Alpha Reference Translators Widianto Nugroho, Indonesian Tetsu Kondo, Japanese William Ngan, Tori Tan, Mei Yu, Chinese Traditional and Simplified Art Center Nabi, Tae-Kyung Kim, Korean Julien Gachadoat, French Pedro Alpera, Spanish Alessandro Capozzo, Italian Burak Arikan, Turkish We offer a special "Thank You!" to Sami Arola for writing the base of the original P3D and Simon Greenwold for incorporating camera and lights. Tom Carden contributed great energy by co-creating Processing Hacks and maintaining Processing Blogs. Andreas Schlegel did amazing work for over three years organizing the Contributed Libraries and building templates and documentation.