Sympa is provided by a french academic network team named cru Sympa is widely used by the academic community.

Authors of Sympa are Serge Aumont, Olivier Salaün and David Verdin.

You can contact project authors via the sympa-authors list (only 3 subscribers)

Christophe Wolfhugel is the author of the first beta version of Sympa. He developed it while working for the Institut Pasteur.

Our thanks to all contributors, including:

• Virginie Paitrault, Université de Rennes 2, who wrote the excellent online user documentation.
• John-Paul Robinson, University of Alabama at Birmingham, who added email verification procedure to the Shibboleth support.
• Gwenaelle Bouteille, who joined the development team for a few months and produced a great job for various feature introduced in V5 (family, RSS, shared document moderation, ...).
• Pierre David, who in addition to his help and suggestions in developing the code, participated more than actively in producing this manual (it was so pretty when managed using latex
• David Lewis, who corrected this reference manual.
• Philippe Rivière, for his perseverance in tuning Sympa for Postfix.
• Raphaël Hertzog (Debian), Jerome Marant (Debian) and Stéphane Poirey (Red Hat), for Linux packages.
• Loic Dachary, for guiding us through the GNU Coding Standards.
• Vincent Mathieu, Lynda Amadouche, John Dalbec, for their integration of LDAP features in Sympa.
• Olivier Lacroix, for all his perseverance in bug fixing.
• Hubert Ulliac, for the search functions in the message archive, based on marcsearch.pm.
• Florent Guilleux, who wrote the Task Manager (and now join CRU team for many other activities)
• Nadia Euzen, for developing the antivirus scanner plugin.
• Fabien Marquois, who introduced many new features such as the digest.
• Valics Lehel, for his Romanian translations.
• Vizi Szilard, for his Hungarian translations.
• Petr Prazak, for his Czech translations.
• Rodrigo Filgueira Prates, for his Portuguese translations.
• Lukasz Zalubski and Łukasz Zygmański, for their Polish translations.
• Alex Nappa and Josep Roman, for their Spanish translations.
• Carsten Clasohm and Jens-Uwe Gaspar, for their German translations.
• Marco Ferrante, for his Italian translations.
• Tung Siu Fai, Wang Jian and Autrijus Tang, for their Chinese translations.
• Manuel Valente, Dominique Rousseau, Laurent Ghys, Francois Petillon, Guy Brand, Jean Brange, Fabrice Gaillard, Hervé Maza, Harald Wilhelmi, ...
• Ollivier Robert, Usenet Canal Historique and the good manners guru in the PERL program.
• Bernard Barbier, without whom Sympa would not have a name : SYMPA = SYsteme de Multi-Postage Automatique

All contributors and beta-testers cited in the RELEASE_NOTES file, who, by serving as guinea pigs and being the first to use it, made it possible to quickly and efficiently debug the Sympa software.