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Michael Hart
Founded Project Gutenberg in 1971.
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Webpages: Personal blog ; Wikipedia Article.
You may contact Michael Hart for Questions Concerning Copyright, Donations, Requests for Press Information and Cooperation in General with Third Parties and Individuals.
CEO of the PGLAF
Gregory Newby
CEO of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation (PGLAF), which was formed in 2000 to provide a more formal organization to handle Project Gutenberg's finances and other details.
Dr. Newby first became a Project Gutenberg volunteer in 1992, when he met Michael Hart at U. Illinois. He did some early eBooks, including some O'Henry tales and Descarte's Discourse on Reason (#52).
He is also the Distribution Sites and Back-End Technologies Coordinator, US Production Coordinator and he runs the mailing lists.
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David Price, UK PG Coordinator
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Mike Cook
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Ricardo F. Diogo
He is a Project Gutenberg volunteer since 2005. He has translated PG's documentation for the Portuguese-speaking community and in 2007 he became PG's Production Director for Portuguese Language.
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Robert Marquardt
He joined Project Gutenberg in December 2006 to create the Science Fiction (Bookshelf) which soon raged out of control. Now he is working on all bookshelves and has been made sysop already in January. He has completed the Project Gutenberg Science Fiction CD. Next is trying to to find time to work on an update. His daytime work is as a programmer in Delphi (Pascal).
Robert is now sitten at a star, looking for us all. Rest in peace, Robert.
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Juliet Sutherland
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Charles Franks
Greg Newby
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Distributed Proofreaders Europe
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Nikola Smolenski
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Other Priceless Volunteers
Joshua Hutchinson
Long time volunteer, he has recently taken over the audiobook portion of PG's efforts. While he encourages people interested in creating audiobooks to work with the fine folks at Librivox.org (those folks are true experts!), he is slowly and steadily posting public-domain audiobooks from many sources.
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