1&1 Internet AG is both the world’s biggest web hosting company, and the fastest growing. Back in 2004 it initiated the development of a ground-breaking new JavaScript framework, that should later become “qooxdoo”. 1&1 being an active supporter of Open Source Software, qooxdoo was registered as an LGPL-licensed project (later even extended to an LGPL/EPL dual-license) at SourceForge in 01/2005, a month before the term "AJAX" was even coined.

1&1 continues to be the driving force of the project’s development, providing the technical infrastructure and also employing most of the core developers that are able to concentrate full-time on improving this comprehensive AJAX framework.

There is an increasing number of cooperation partners involved, who bring in their know-how and resources to make this open source project even more mature and advanced.

STZ-IDA joined forces in developing a common AJAX framework at an early stage, which lead to qooxdoo 0.6 including contributions like virtual table widget and API viewer.

Another exciting cooperation is with Innoopract, a strategic member of the Eclipse foundation, who builds and establishes the RAP platform for enterprise Ajax applications.

It is impossible to list all the various cooperation partners, that are directly or indirectly involved in the project. Many of those companies chose to base their applications, products or tools on the innovative qooxdoo framework. Just to name a few, this partner network includes international companies and technology leaders such as Borland/Codegear (Delphi For PHP), Adobe (JSEclipse), Web.de (SmartDrive) and GMX (Free webmail).

A huge advantage of qooxdoo, while being a true open source project, is that some of the main people behind the project do not have to work on it just part-time or only in their spare time. Instead, the following 1&1 employees work full-time (and full-steam) on qooxdoo’s advancement, both in technical and organizational terms:

(Front row, left to right) Fabian, Sebastian, Andreas
(Back row, left to right) Martin, Johnny, Thomas, Alex

• Andreas Ecker (ecker)
  Project lead. Co-creator and framework architect.
• Sebastian Werner (wpbasti) [LinkedIn]
  Co-creator and framework architect.
  
• Fabian Jakobs (fjakobs)
  Framework architect.
• Alex Back (aback)
  Core developer. Contact person providing technical support to the community and internal/external partners.
• Thomas Herchenröder (thron7)
  Core developer.
• Jonathan Rass (jonathan_rass) [Blog]
  Core developer.
• Martin Wittemann (martinwittemann)
  Core developer (part-time).

The following developers play an important role in qooxdoo’s progress by both contributing and maintaining very exciting and substantial features. They also take a special interest in discussing the framework’s technical directions and are an invaluable source of know-how and expertise.

• Andreas Junghans (lucidcake)
  RPC mechanism, Java RPC backend, core framework features, and more
• Til Schneider (til132)
  API viewer, Table main contribution, Logging, and more
• Derrell Lipman (derrell)
  PHP RPC backend, Table extensions, (virtual) Tree, and more
• Nick Glenncross
  Perl RPC backend
• Alessandro Sala (asala)
  Build process, JavaScript parsing and optimizing
• David Perez (david-perez)
  Date chooser, internationalization, and more
• Dietrich Streifert (level420)
  Date chooser, XML, and more
• Michael Hartmeier (mlhartme)
  qooxdoo Web Toolkit (QWT)
• ... and all the other co-developers that may have been forgotten in this list. If so, please update this list and/or drop us a note.

The following people (in alphabetical order) have made valuable contributions. Thanks a lot, your work is highly appreciated!

• Alexander Trauzzi
• Anton D. Kachalov
• Cameron Braid
• Cesar Alaniz
• Chris Ricks
• Cristian Bica
• Florian G. Pflug
• Fred McDavid
• Hugh Gibson
• Kent Olsson
• Luiz Vaz
• Oliver Vogel
• Ryan Waters
• Stanislev Ievlev
• Ulrich Schreiner
• ... and all the other contributors that may have been forgotten in this list. If so, please update this list and/or drop us a note.