Admin
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Administration is not Design
RepRap as a technology is designed and developed as a set of careful decisions by all of us, in an open developers mailing list (yay!).
It is also the result of "drive-by uploads" by dark-horse maverick-iconoclasts which completely blow away our existing road map. (If you have an idea for how to make RepRap better, please join our open developers mailing list since you're a developer.)
Often, your ideas are better than anything we could come up with.
Which is why we've developed, adopted, support, and indeed, often document a number of different softwares, electronics, firmwares, positioning systems, and even fabrication methods (extrusion, laser cutting, etc.) Call it "perverse polymorphism".
And none of this has anything to do with Administration. Administration is not design, it is not development. Development is done by developers, by you. In an open developers mailing list.
The Administration Team, What We Do
RepRap's administrators are a shadowy cabal trusted group of folk who have racked up some seniority.
And therefore get saddled with responsibilities.
Spam Deletion
We host a wiki, a few blogs, a forum, and mailing lists. These attract unsolicited commercial posts by entrepreneurs. Upon inspection, some of these contributions turn out to be parasitic outgoing links and have surprisingly little to do with fabrication, or are closed source ("icky"). We delete them. (The outgoing links, not the entrepreneurs.)
Mediation and Dispute Resolution
Frankly, when RepRap-Developers start ... exhibiting novel behavior or heatedly discuss financial matters, that's best sorted out compassionately, respectfully, and privately. (You don't want to know. Trust me.) --Sebastien Bailard 07:44, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
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Project founder | Bath, UK | This guy is the man. Founder and leader of the RepRap project. (AB: Ahem! One of the advantages of a wiki is that one can dive in an edit things created by one's colleagues when modesty demands; I am but a man...) |
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Software Dev | is a longhair programmer/developer/artist with workshops in the Waitakere rainforest. He fights fires, programs PIC and PCs, raises kids and cats, welds, cuts, cooks and grows hydroponics for space research. He believes that specialisation is just for insects. He can be found at http://diamondage.co.nz
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is a software developer from New Zealand who also dabbles with electronics. | ||
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is a software developer and electronics designer in the North West of England by day. The rest of my life has been taken over by RepRap, details here http://hydraraptor.blogspot.com. | ||
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is a professional student/amateur artist/ex physics grad
student located in the wilds of Canada, interested in making a fused filament fabrication reprap for the inherent coolness, and with an eye to figurative and abstract sculpture. Mostly the coolness. | ||
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is a former professor and research scientist in building science who
presently consults in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence on the California central coast. | ||
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is sorting out lots of the Java host software and C firmware for RepRap. | ||
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is the founder of the aclaimed Project Gutenberg and is interested in RepRap for its potential as a disruptive technology. | ||
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is a computer programmer in North Carolina. His interests include electronics, writing, critical thinking, webcomics, chemistry, physics, photography, alternative energy, cooking and figuring out where all his spare time went... | ||
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is a hippie who built several boats. They sank; he's hoping to reprap one which floats. | ||
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is an artist and programmer originally from Scotland but now living in
Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His website is here. | ||
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is juggling math studies, a part-time
programmer job and teaching electronics to art students. What he claims to be a healthy obsession for blinking things is only surpassed with the passion for the RepRap project. Together with Marius he forms the RepRap Team at Metalab. | ||
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is a Norwegian who moved to Austria to be closer to his better half.
He's writing 3D visualization software by day and hacking all things blinking and moving at the Metalab in Vienna by night. He forms the Metalab RepRap team together with Philipp. | ||
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have created the first working RepRap out of wood!!! They have also helped build the Makerbot. Nick is currently the youngest kid to build a RepRap successfully. Bruce is currently building parts to make another machine. They have a google group which you can view here http://groups.google.com/group/new-england-reprap and also now we have a google site http://sites.google.com/site/newenglandreprapgroup/ | ||
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is a research student at Bath University. He is working on printing with multiple different materials in RepRap for his PhD. | ||
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Wiki Admin | Toronto, Canada | Rob is a computer engineering undergrad at the University of Ottawa currently working in Toronto. With the help of Hacklab.To he has just finished building his first Reprap (a Mendel) and is an avid enthusiast of the interweb, lasers and any combination thereof. |
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Belgrade, RS | is high availability systems consultant with background in both software and hardware spending all hard earned cache on building robots | |
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Netherlands | Erik Co-founded two IT companies. He studied information management at the University of Tilburg and he is fully immersed in the RepRap project for years now. Erik gives talks throughout Europe and at MIT on RepRap and the democratization of fabrication technology and the effects on innovation and wealth. Full bio... See also Erik's RepRap blog. | |
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Brisbane, Australia | David/Buzz is a software developer/programmer,retro-hacker, electronics enthusiast and open-source advocate, who loves making stuff go. I collect power tools, skydive, scubadive, fly a gyrocopter, hack electronics and software, and whatever else takes my fancy. I agree with Vic: specialising is for everyone else. | |
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Vancouver, Canada | Wade is a maker/engineer, who has worked on inertial nav systems for shoes, hybrid locomotives, CTBTO nuke detection sites in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and of course, a growing stack of RepRaps. | |
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Czech Republic | Josef is a DJ. He's a webmaster at Nábytek. He's printed 20 sets of Mendel parts, and he's busy making Mendel better. |
Adding Core Team Members
This is a list of Core RepRap Team members. Please contact Adrian Bowyer for information on getting involved on the core team. Core team member should be added using the following:
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