Lua Thanks

individuals · donors · institutions

The Lua team is grateful to Tecgraf for its continued support of Lua. We thank everyone at Tecgraf, specially the head of the group, Marcelo Gattass.

Individuals

At the risk of omitting several names, we thank the following individuals for supporting and spreading the word about Lua: Aaron Brown, Adam Moss, Alan Watson, André Carregal, André Clinio, André Costa, Antonio Scuri, Asko Kauppi, Bret Mogilefsky, Brett Kapilik, Cameron Laird, Carlos Cassino, Carlos Henrique Levy, Claudio Terra, Daniel Silverstone, David Burgess, David Jeske, David Manura, Diego Nehab, Ed Ferguson, Edgar Toernig, Erik Hougaard, Gustavo Niemeyer, Jim Mathies, John Belmonte, John Passaniti, John Roll, Jon Erickson, Jon Kleiser, Julio Manuel Fernández-Díaz, Kein-Hong Man, Mark Hamburg, Mark Ian Barlow, Matthew Burke, Matthew Cox, Mike Pall, Nick Trout, Noemi Rodriguez, Norman Ramsey, Philippe Lhoste, Renata Ratton, Renato Borges, Renato Cerqueira, Reuben Thomas, Rici Lake, Sérgio Queiroz de Medeiros, Stephan Herrmann, Steve Dekorte, Thatcher Ulrich, Tomás Gorham, Vincent Penquerc'h, Wim Couwenberg. Thank you!

Donors

We are grateful to Ashwin Hirschi (Reflexis), Kurt Jung, Ayn Rand, Asen Kovachev, Taj Khattra, Swoop Software, Michel Machado, Les Newell (SheetCam), Shmuel Zeigerman, Jim Eberle, DistroWatch.com, Real Time Logic, Doug Philips, Karl Berry, Bitvise, and several anonymous donors for their generous donations to the Lua project.

Institutions

We are grateful to the following institutions for currently supporting Lua:

Tecgraf housed the Lua project from its birth in 1993 until 2005.

The Department of Computer Science houses Tecgraf, where Lua was created, and Lablua, where Lua is currently developed, as laboratories.

PUC-Rio houses Lablua and the Department of Computer Science, and is the alma mater of the Lua team.

IMPA hosts LuaForge and is home to one third of the Lua team.

Pepperfish hosts Lua.org since 2004 as a courtesy to the Lua community.

Mandriva Conectiva runs the mailing list since 2003 as a courtesy to the Lua community.

We are grateful to the following institutions for supporting Lua in the past:

FINEP sponsored the translation of the reference manual into Portuguese in 2007.

Océ hosted and sponsored the Lua Workshop 2006.

Adobe hosted and sponsored the Lua Workshop 2005.

CNPq supported several initiatives of the Lua project in 2004 and 2005.

Soho One hosted this web site from 2001 to 2004 as a courtesy to the Lua community.


Last update: Thu Mar 20 00:10:39 BRT 2008