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Acknowledgements
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This project is the result of years of work by many individuals and companies.
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Many people have written or tweaked the software; the drivers, clients, server
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and documentation have all received valuable attention from numerous sources.
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Many of them are listed within the source code, AUTHORS file, release notes, and
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mailing list archives, but some prefer to be anonymous.
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This software would not be possible without their help.
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The NUT Team
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Active members
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- Arnaud Quette: project leader (since 2005), Debian packager and jack of all trades
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- Arjen de Korte: senior lieutenant
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- Charles Lepple: senior lieutenant
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- Kjell Claesson: senior developer
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- Alexander Gordeev: junior developer
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- David Goncalves: Python developer
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- Eric S. Raymond: Documentation consultant
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- Oden Eriksson: Mandriva packager
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- Stanislav Brabec: Novell / Suse packager
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- Michal Hlavinka: Redhat packager
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Retired members
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- Russell Kroll: Founder, and project leader from 1996 to 2005
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- Peter Selinger: senior lieutenant
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- Carlos Rodrigues: author of the "megatec" drivers, removing the numerous
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drivers for Megatec / Q1 protocol. These drivers have now been replaced by
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blazer_ser and blazer_usb
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- Niels Baggesen: ported and heavily extended upscode2 to NUT 2.0 driver model
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- Niklas Edmundsson: has worked on 3-phase support, and upscode2 updates
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- Martin Loyer: has worked a bit on mge-utalk
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- Jonathan Dion: MGE internship (summer 2006), who has worked on configuration
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- Doug Reynolds: has worked on CyberPower support (powerpanel driver)
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- Jon Gough: has worked on porting the megatec driver to USB (megatec_usb)
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- Dominique Lallement: Consultant (chairman of the USB/HID PDC Forum)
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- Julius Malkiewicz: junior developer
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- Tomas Smetana: former Redhat packager (2007-2008)
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[[Eaton]]
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Our main supporter: Eaton
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Through the acquisition of MGE Office Protection Systems (a carve out of
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the MGE UPS SYSTEMS small systems, up to 10 KVA), Eaton has been supporting
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NUT, and more generally the Free/Libre Opensource Software Community
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since around 2002.
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This support includes the following actions:
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- providing extensive technical documents (Eaton protocols library),
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- providing units to developers of NUT and related projects,
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- hosting the networkupstools.org webserver,
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- providing artwork,
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- promoting NUT in general.
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For more detailed information on Eaton's Opensource commitment, please refer to
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link:http://opensource.eaton.com[Eaton Opensource website].
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Supporting manufacturers
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UPS manufacturers
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- link:http://powerquality.eaton.com[Eaton], our main supporter, as presented in
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the <<Eaton,above section>>.
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- link:http://www.gamatronic.com[Gamatronic], through Nadav Moskovitch, has
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revived the 'sec' driver (as gamatronic), and expanded a bit genericups for its
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UPSs with alarm interface.
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- link:http://www.microdowell.com[Microdowell], through Elio Corbolante, has
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created the 'microdowell' driver to support the Enterprise Nxx/Bxx serial devices.
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They also proposes NUT as an alternative to its software for
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link:http://www.microdowell.com/fra/download.html[Linux / Unix].
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- link:http://pcmups.com.tw[Powercom], through Alexey Morozov, has provided
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link:ups-protocol.html[extensive information] on its USB/HID devices, along
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with development units.
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Appliances manufacturers
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- link:http://www.opengear.com[OpenGear] has worked with NUT's leader to
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successfully develop and integrate PDU support. Opengear, through Scott Burns,
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and Robert Waldie, has submitted several patches.
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Other contributors
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- Pavel Korensky's original apcd provided the inspiration for pursuing APC's
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smart protocol in 1996
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- Eric Lawson provided scans of the OneAC protocol
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- John Marley used OCR software to transform the SEC protocol scans into a HTML
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document
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- Chris McKinnon scanned and converted the Fortress protocol documentation
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- Tank provided documentation on the Belkin/Delta protocol
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- Potrans provided a Fenton PowerPal 600 (P series) for development of the
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safenet driver.
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Older entries (before 2005)
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- MGE UPS SYSTEMS was the previous NUT sponsor. They provided protocols
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information, many units for development of NUT-related projects.
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Several drivers such as mge-utalk, mge-shut, snmp-ups, hidups, and usbhid-ups
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are the result of this collaboration, in addition to the WMNut, MGE HID Parser
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the libhid projects, ... through Arnaud.
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All the MGE supporters have now gone with Eaton (through MGE Office
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Protection Systems), which is the new NUT sponsor.
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- Fenton Technologies contributed a PowerPal 660 to the project. Their open
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stance and quick responses to technical inquiries were appreciated for
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making the development of the fentonups driver possible.
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Fenton has since been acquired by link:http://www.metapo.com[Metapo].
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- Bo Kersey of link:http://www.vircio.com[VirCIO] provided a Best Power Fortress
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750 to facilitate the bestups driver.
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- Invensys Energy Systems provided the SOLA/Best "Phoenixtec" protocol
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document. SOLA has since been acquired by Eaton.
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- PowerKinetics technical support provided documentation on their MiniCOL
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protocol, which is archived in the NUT protocol library.
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PowerKinetics was acquired by the link:http://www.jst.cc[JST Group] in June 2003.
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- link:http://www.cyberpowersystems.com[Cyber Power Systems] contributed a
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700AVR model for testing and development of the cyberpower driver.
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- link:http://www.liebert.com[Liebert Corporation] supplied serial test boxes
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and a UPStation GXT2 with the Web/SNMP card for development of the liebert
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driver and expansion of the existing snmp-ups driver.
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Liebert has since been acquired by link:http://www.emerson.com[Emerson].
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NOTE: If a company or individual isn't listed here, then we probably don't have
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enough information about the situation. Developers are requested to report vendor
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contributions to the NUT team so this list may reflect their help.
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If we have left you out, send us some mail.
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