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+Credits for GNU social
+======================
+The following is an incomplete list of developers
+who've worked on GNU social, or its predecessors
+StatusNet and Free Social. Apologies for any
+oversight; please let mattl@gnu.org know if
+anyone's been overlooked in error.
+
+Current team
+------------
+* Matt Lee
+* Mikael Nordfeldth
+* Diogo Cordeiro
+* Bruno Casteleiro
+* Miguel Dantas
+
+Additional Contributors
+-----------------------
+* Ciaran Gultnieks
+* Michael Landers
+* Ori Avtalion
+* Garret Buell
+* Mike Cochrane
+* Matthew Gregg
+* Sean Murphy
+* Leslie Michael Orchard
+* Eric Helgeson
+* Ken Sedgwick
+* Brian Hendrickson
+* Tobias Diekershoff
+* Dan Moore
+* Fil
+* Jeff Mitchell
+* Brenda Wallace
+* Jeffery To
+* Federico Marani
+* mEDI
+* Brett Taylor
+* Brigitte Schuster
+* Craig Andrews
+* Donald Robertson
+* Deb Nicholson
+* Ian Denhart
+* Steven DuBois
+* Blaine Cook
+* Henry Story
+* Melvin Carvalho
+* chimo
+* Akio
+* Maiyannah Bishop
+* Bob Mottram
+* David Yip
+* Neil E Hodges
+* Moonman
+* Normandy
+* Verius
+
+Credits for StatusNet
+--------------
+Leads
+* Evan Prodromou
+* Zach Copley
+
+Team
+* Earle Martin
+* Marie-Claude Doyon
+* Sarven Capadisli
+* Robin Millette
+* Brion Vibber
+* James Walker
+* Samantha Doherty
+* Florian Biree
+* Erik Stambaugh
+* 'drry'
+* Gina Haeussge
+* Tryggvi Björgvinsson
+* Adrian Lang
+* Ori Avtalion
+* Meitar Moscovitz
+* Ken Sheppardson
+* Simon Waters, Surevine
+* Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)
+
+Translators
+-----------
+* Siebrand Mazeland
+* Tiago 'gouki' Faria
+* TranslateWiki.net
+
+A special thanks to the thousands of people who
+have tried out GNU social, told their friends, and
+built the fediverse network to what it is today.
+
+License help from
+-----------------
+* Bradley M. Kuhn
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   making things better. <https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/issues/>
 * Patches are welcome, preferrably to our repository on git.gnu.io. <https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social>
 
-Credits
-=======
-
-The following is an incomplete list of developers
-who've worked on GNU social, or its predecessors
-StatusNet and Free Social. Apologies for any
-oversight; please let mattl@gnu.org know if
-anyone's been overlooked in error.
-
-## Project Founders
-
-* Matt Lee (GNU social)
-* Evan Prodromou (StatusNet)
-* Mikael Nordfeldth (Free Social)
-
-Thanks to all of the StatusNet developers:
-
-* Zach Copley, StatusNet, Inc.
-* Earle Martin, StatusNet, Inc.
-* Marie-Claude Doyon, designer, StatusNet, Inc.
-* Sarven Capadisli, StatusNet, Inc.
-* Robin Millette, StatusNet, Inc.
-* Ciaran Gultnieks
-* Michael Landers
-* Ori Avtalion
-* Garret Buell
-* Mike Cochrane
-* Matthew Gregg
-* Florian Biree
-* Erik Stambaugh
-* 'drry'
-* Gina Haeussge
-* Tryggvi Björgvinsson
-* Adrian Lang
-* Ori Avtalion
-* Meitar Moscovitz
-* Ken Sheppardson (Trac server, man-about-town)
-* Tiago 'gouki' Faria (i18n manager)
-* Sean Murphy
-* Leslie Michael Orchard
-* Eric Helgeson
-* Ken Sedgwick
-* Brian Hendrickson
-* Tobias Diekershoff
-* Dan Moore
-* Fil
-* Jeff Mitchell
-* Brenda Wallace
-* Jeffery To
-* Federico Marani
-* mEDI
-* Brett Taylor
-* Brigitte Schuster
-* Siebrand Mazeland and the amazing volunteer translators at translatewiki.net
-* Brion Vibber, StatusNet, Inc.
-* James Walker, StatusNet, Inc.
-* Samantha Doherty, designer, StatusNet, Inc.
-* Simon Waters, Surevine
-* Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)
-
-### Extra special thanks to the GNU socialites
-
-* Craig Andrews
-* Donald Robertson
-* Deb Nicholson
-* Ian Denhart
-* Steven DuBois
-* Blaine Cook
-* Henry Story
-* Melvin Carvalho
-
-Thanks also to the developers of our upstream
-library code and to the thousands of people who
-have tried out GNU social, told their friends, and
-built the fediverse network to what it is today.
-
-### License help from
-
-* Bradley M. Kuhn