Who we are

Mostafa Hosseini, Project Leader ( mostafah AT axentra DOT com )

Mostafa is responsible for the Calendar project in general, managing and building milestones, making decisions on releases, directing contributions and making sure the outcome of efforts benefits the project both in its extension form as well as its standalone version. He has been contributing mostly to the backend code since the project started and has dedicated most of his afterhour efforts to keeping Sunbird up-to-date with the route of development the main codebase has followed; a non-stop fun-ride he has experienced since he introduced the standalone calendar application shortly after Firefox and Thunderbird had taken off.

Mostafa currently works at Axentra (formerly OEone) which has been benefiting from and promoting the Mozilla project since the beginning and is the company which donated the Calendar code base to Mozilla.

Michiel van Leeuwen, Developer ( mvl+moz AT exedo DOT nl )

Michiel doesn't have an official role in the project. But he's a major contributor to various parts of the codebase. He tends to work mostly on backend stuff and got involved in the project because he got a Palm, and wanted to use it with his linux desktop. When he is not hacking on the Calendar codebase, he also works on the Mozilla code for cookies and permissions.

Vladimir Vukicevic ( vladimir AT pobox DOT com)

Vladimir is a major contributor to the project. His areas include maintaining the generic back-end infrastructure (Items, Events, etc.), recurrence objects and calculation, the mozStorage framework and the database calendar provider, as well as various bits of other back-end components.

When he finds the time Vladimir also hacks on other parts of the Mozilla codebase, especially Mozilla Firefox, where he is also a major contributor. He is currently employed by a major software company to work on the Lightning project.

Mark Carson, Graphic Artist ( Mark AT MarkCarson DOT com )

Mark designed the Sunbird logo and along with Chris Cook (and a lot of community input) created the default theme for Sunbird. His follow-on effort was a theme for Thunderbird called "Winstripe Unofficial" where he collaborated with Scratch to make a Thunderbird skin to complement the default Firefox theme. He is currently designated as the responsible party for Sunbird graphics (logo, icons, etc.).

His "day job" has very little to do with graphics. Outside of making an odd logo or some icons for business or personal projects, he works as a software engineering consultant and develops web-based applications using JavaScript, JSP/Java, ASP, PHP and Lotus Domino/Notes. Mark is an old 'C' programmer but hasn't compiled any code for 5 years other than Java servlets/JSPs. He has lived in Hawaii for over a quarter of a century and has been paid to do what he loves (coding, of course) for over 15 years.

Simon Paquet, Website Maintainer and Spokesperson (bugzilla AT babylonsounds DOT com )

Simon is responsible for the project website. He is also our somewhat inofficial spokesperson, because he tries to spread the word about new releases and has a blog dedicated to the newest developments in the codebase. Occasionally he also provides some patches, but since he really can't code, his contributions to the codebase are always small and mostly trivial. He became involved with the project when Mostafah announced Sunbird for the first time. Before that he was a major contributor to the Firefox QA team. He still is the responsible QA Contact for some parts of Firefox.

Simon lives in Germany and works for a major professional services firm as a risk management consultant.

Emeritus

Mike Potter, Former project leader (mikeypotter AT yahoo.com )

As the first Project Manager for the Mozilla Calendar project, Mike initiated the opening of source code from OEone, created the initial web pages and source code locations, helped organize developers to help fix bugs and managed releases of the software.
Mike is currently employed by Adobe Systems Inc. as Program Manager.