Credits and ThankYou's

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With the conversion of the web site format for Alestic.com from a single page to more of a blog, the “Credits” section got lost, so I figured I’d post it here to thank some of the many folks who have been involved in providing input (directly or indirectly) into the original, community Ubuntu and Debian AMIs published on http://alestic.com

  • “Everyone”@AWS
  • Allen Pulsifer
  • Andreas Hasenack
  • Andrew Becherer
  • anourkey
  • Dietmar Scharf
  • Dmitriy
  • Don Spaulding II
  • Doug Winter
  • Esteve Fernandez
  • Hans Omli
  • Jeff Kim
  • Jim Dixon
  • Jorge Oliveira
  • jjc1138
  • justnulling
  • Kim Scheibel
  • llinder
  • Martin Rhoads
  • Paul Dowman
  • Peter Bowen
  • Reuven Cohen
  • Robert Coup
  • Robert Hooker
  • Steven Parkes
  • Terry Jones
  • Thomas Shealy
  • Thorsten von Eicken
  • Tim Dysinger
  • Vincent Desjardins
  • Yejun Yang

This has been a great community project and I’m glad to be a part of it.

[Updated: 2009-08-05, 2009-10-14]

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