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+veejay contributors:
+====================
+
+ (in no particular order)
+
+
+ Jeff Carpenter (programmer) for the XML sample parser
+ David Denny (user) for general feedback and bug reports
+ Daniel Jircik (user) for general feedback and suggestions for future versions
+ Pilo Chambert (programmer) for general information about audio
+ Matthijs van Henten (artist) for extensive feedback and testing
+ Dursun Koca (artist) for extensive feedback and testing
+ Peter de Man (artist) for providing a MIDI keyboard (Yamaha RS7000)
+ Stefan Thieme (vj) for providing a patch for german keyboard layout 
+ Andrew Wood (programmer) for providing a RPM spec file for veejay and gveejay
+ Kyle Davenport for providing fixes to the RPM spec file for veejay
+ Daniel Rohr for giving practical tips on math problems (optimizations) 
+
+veejay/gveejay author:
+======================
+
+  Niels Elburg        <nelburg@looze.net >
+  
+