The team - a.k.a the Ninjas
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Hall of fame
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Ninja is standing on the shoulder of giants. 
We are using an immense amount of libraries and ideas from open source projects.
Especially ideas from Rails, Play 1 and Play 2 and also 
libraries from Apache, Google, Sun/Oracle and many others.

This is the time to say **Thank you**. We hope we can contribute a bit back to the world.

Over the time a lot of **awesome** people have
contributed to Ninja. In some random order:

 * James Roper
 * Henning Schuetz
 * Marco Reinwarth
 * Philip Sommer
 * Liu Lujie
 * Anatoly Zozlinsky aka zoza (zoza)
 * Thomas Broyer (tbroyer)
 * Seratch
 * Patrick Thum (pthum)
 * Tristan
 * makotan
 * Aliaksei Nikuliak (an)
 * Miguel Triana (emiguelt)
 * amsz
 * Max Garmash (linx56)
 * Mikko Oksa (metacity)
 * Zoran Zaric
 * Andrei Varabyeu (avarabyeu)
 * Matt Jones (mattjonesorg)
 * Naum Naumovski (Buffer0verflow)
 * Primož Kokol
 * James Moger (gitblit)
 * Hidetaka Koda (eiryu)
 * Pedro Sena Tanaka (pedro-stanaka)
 * Azilet Beishenaliev (bazi)
 
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Do you feel you are missing from that list? Please let us know - this did not happen
intentionally. You can even add yourself to the list:
You can do so easily by checking out the source code of Ninja and changing the file
ninja/ninja-core/site/markdown/team.md .
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Technical lead
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Someone has to be in charge of integrating pull requests. Reviewing code. Cutting
new releases. And driving the platform as a whole.

That leadership role is currently performed by the team of [FinalFrontierLabs](http://www.finalfrontierlabs.com) 
and [Raphael](http://raphaelbauer.com) as lead architect. 

If you want to take over a more official role in the Ninja platform don't hesitate
to contact us! The framework offers excellent
opportunities to collaborate with nice people and drive an extraordinary project.


Become part of the team!
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Ninja is open source and driven by enthusiasts. We love what we
do and we have a long term goal: Ensuring that Ninja is the best web framework
written in Java.

Community contributions are at the core of the Ninja framework.
These contributions are not only new features,
but also documentation and bug reports. Every bit is a step 
forward ensuring our success.

We have a really good track record of integrating community pull requests.
Looking forward seeing you on the mailing list. Let's talk about your ideas
 - we are social creatures!
