jQuery User Interface

Core Team

The core team members are responsible for several plugins and on the core of jQuery UI. The create a solid base for other plugin contributors to work with.

• Paul Bakaus

  Paul is a UI architect living in Germany. He's the initial creator of jQuery UI and works for the open source company Liferay in a full-time sponsored position to jQuery UI. He's responsible for the overall direction and roadmap of jQuery UI and he's mainly maintaining the core, draggables, droppables, sortables and slider. In the past, he was largely responsible for creating the dimensions plugin and worked together with Stefan Petre on the rich effects and components library Interface.

• Richard D. Worth

  Richard D. Worth is a consultant living in Northern VA (Wash DC suburbs). He actively maintains the selectables and dialogs, while also keeping great focus on writing tests for UI components, refining the internal core and writing good documentation for all components.

• Scott Gonzalez

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• Eduardo Lungren

  Eduardo Lungren is a engineer living in Recife, Brasil. He was introduced to the team only recently and already invests huge blocks of time to maintain the resizables. He's also responsible for big parts of the new UI website and for the functional demos, and he's always there if you need him.

• Jörn Zafferer

  Joern has been a driving force of the jQuery core development process, contributing numerous bug fixes and pushing out many of the 1.0.x releases. He's also responsible for completely re-building the jQuery test suite and writing a large number of the test cases. Even better, he know helps the jQuery UI team and contributed his excellent Accordion plugin while helping to redefine the core.

Plugins Team

These contributors mainly maintain a single plugin.

• Marc Grabanski

  Marc is the creator of the popular datepicker plugin. After a huge success, he ported it to jQuery UI for everyone to enjoy bundled in a full featured library.

• Klaus Hartl

  Klaus has been one of the most vocal supporters of jQuery and unobtrusive design on the jQuery mailing list. His ability to expertly explain quality, unobtrusive, solutions to problems is a tremendous boon to the jQuery project. Klaus is working with both the Evangelism & Dev jQuery teams to help promote jQuery and expand its reach, as well as maintaining the Thickbox and Tabs plugins. Starting a couple of months ago, Tabs is now a official UI plugin.