Who are we?

Christopher Faylor (cgf) is one of the project leads and has led the project through all of its recent innovations as well as acting as the primary developer responsible for pathname and signal handling in the Cygwin DLL. Chris works for Netapp but all of his Cygwin activities occur on his own time.

Corinna Vinschen (corinna) is the other project lead. Corinna is a senior Red Hat engineer who provides substantial Cygwin support, also in her spare time. Corinna is responsible for such important subsystems as security and networking.

Cygwin/X is currently in need of a maintainer.

The Cygwin setup project is currently maintained by a group of people, most notably, Max Bowsher (maxb), Brian Dessent (brian), Igor Peshansky (pechtcha), and Dave Korn (dave.korn).

Cygwin was initially developed by Cygnus Solutions (Now Red Hat, Inc.) but there is little further ongoing Cygwin development within Red Hat.

Like many free software projects on sourceware.org, contributions from net people are especially important. Cygwin benefits from thousands of testers and dozens of contributors, including some incredible people like Sergey Okhapkin, Egor Duda, Chuck Wilson, David Starks-Browning, Kazuhiro Fujieda, Jason Tishler, Robert Collins, David Billinghurst, Joshua Daniel Franklin, Chris January, Conrad Scott, Pavel Tsekov, Pierre Humblet, Igor Peshansky, Brian Dessent, Dave Korn, Brian Ford, and Jari Aalto.

Please note that all of the above project leads prefer that project related communications go to the proper mailing list rather than private email.