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This is a community effort, and as such many people have contributed
to it over the years.

History
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This project was started in 2007 as a Google Summer of Code project by
David Cournapeau. Later that year, Matthieu Brucher started work on
this project as part of his thesis.

In 2010 Fabian Pedregosa, Gael Varoquaux, Alexandre Gramfort and
Vincent Michel took leadership of the project and made the first
public release, February the 1st 2010. Since then, several releases
have appeard following a ~3 month cycle.

People
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  * David Cournapeau, 2007-2009

  * Fred Mailhot, 2008, Artificial Neural Networks (ann) module.

  * David Cooke

  * David Huard

  * Dave Morrill

  * Ed Schofield

  * Eric Jones, 2008, Genetic Algorithms (ga) module. No longer part
    of scikits.learn.

  * Jarrod Millman

  * `Matthieu Brucher <http://matt.eifelle.com/>`_ contributed the
    manifold module. It is not currently part of the scikit, althouth
    it is planned to be newly included in the upcoming 0.7 release.

  * Travis Oliphant

  * Pearu Peterson

  * `Fabian Pedregosa <http://fseoane.net/blog/>`_ joined the project
    in January 2010 and is the current maintainer.

  * `Gael Varoquaux <http://gael-varoquaux.info/blog/>`_

  * `Jake VanderPlas <http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/vanderplas/>`_ 
    contributed the BallTree module in February 2010.

  * `Alexandre Gramfort
    <http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Alexandre.Gramfort/index.fr.html>`_

  * `Olivier Grisel <http://twitter.com/ogrisel>`_

  * Vincent Michel.

  * Chris Filo Gorgolewski

  * `Angel Soler Gollonet <http://webylimonada.com>`_ contributed the
    official logo and web page layout.

  * `Yaroslav Halchenko <http://www.onerussian.com/>`_ is the
    maintainer for Debian OS and has contributed several fixes.

  * Ron Weiss joined the project in July 2010 and contributed both the
    mixture and hmm module.

  * `Virgile Fritsch
    <http://parietal.saclay.inria.fr/Members/virgile-fritsch>`_. Bug
    fixes.

  * `Mathieu Blondel <http://mblondel.org/journal>`_ joined the
    project in September 2010 and has worked since on the sparse
    matrix support, text feature extraction and general bug fixes.

  * `Peter Prettenhofer
    <http://sites.google.com/site/peterprettenhofer/>`_ joined the
    project in October 2010 and contributed the :ref:`sgd` module as
    well as several examples and fixes.

  * Vincent Dubourg joined the project in November 2010 and
    contributed the :ref:`gaussian_process` module.

  * `Alexandre Passos <http://atpassos.posterous.com>`_ joined the
    project in November 2010 contributed the fast SVD variant.


If I forgot anyone, do not hesitate to send me an email to
fabian.pedregosa@inria.fr and I'll include you in the list.