About jQuery UI
jQuery UI is an open source library of interface components — interactions, full-featured widgets, and animation effects — based on the stellar jQuery javascript library . Each component is built according to jQuery's event-driven architecture (find something, manipulate it) and is themeable, making it easy for developers of any skill level to integrate and extend into their own code.
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The jQuery UI Team
Paul Bakaus
Paul is a UI architect living near Mainz, Germany. He's the initial creator and project lead 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 project management of jQuery UI and is also leading the jQuery UI development team. 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.
David Bolter
David works for the Fluid project and helps jQuery UI to become ARIA compatible as part of a Mozilla funding. He's also part of the jQuery UI accessibility team and works out solutions to make the markup of jQuery UI more accessible and unobstrusive.
Rich Caloggero
Rich is an adaptive technology consultant working for the MIT Adaptive Technology Information Center and the WGBH National Center for Accessible Media. A long-time screen reader user, he appreciates the beauty of well written software and feels that jQuery and jQuery UI should be usable by everyone. He provides detailed feedback on the ARIA implementation and suggestions from the perspective of a screen reader user.
Chi Cheng
Chi is a web developer and student living in China. He has been investing a lot of time and effort into the jQuery UI documentation and widget specification process, and helps out whenever something needs to be described.
Colin Clark
Colin is the technical lead for the Fluid Project at the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre. He contributes to the jQuery UI accessibility effort, helping make jQuery UI more usable for everyone.
Michelle D'Souza
Michelle is a software developer working on the Fluid Project at the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre. She works on the jQuery UI accessibility effort, and so far has contributed ARIA support and improved keyboard navigation for the dialog plugin.
Scott González
Scott González is a web developer living in Raleigh, NC. He puts a lot of effort into keeping UI, and especially core, small, efficient and consistent. He is also the jQuery UI accessibility team lead and contributed large parts to the dialog plugin.
Klaus Hartl
Klaus is a senior web developer and specializes in front-end development at Nokia in Berlin, Germany. As part of the jQuery UI development team he has contributed a great deal to the Tabs plugin, as its initial creator.
Scott Jehl
Scott is a web designer/developer at Filament Group Inc, and also leads the design team at jQuery.com. He is a member of the jQuery UI design team and is actively involved with the design of the jQuery widgets, the jQuery UI CSS framework, and ThemeRoller.
Cody Lindley
Cody is a client-side engineer working remotely from Boise, Idaho for Fluid Inc., out of San Fransisco. He is a member of the jQuery & jQuery UI evangelism teams.
Eduardo Lundgren
Eduardo Lundgren is an engineer living in Recife, Brasil. He has contributed a lot to the resizable, progressbar and sortable widgets and is responsible for creating the simulate plugin that has automated the testing of UI widgets.
Todd Parker
Todd, a principal at Filament Group Inc., is lead of the jQuery UI design team with a focus on creating a coherent visual and interaction design system for the widget library. He is also involved with the design of the ThemeRoller application, jQuery UI CSS framework, and the jQuery UI web site.
Patty Toland
Patty is a principal at Filament Group Inc. and contributes to the UI design and documention and ThemeRoller design.
Ca-Phun Ung
Ca-Phun is a web developer and contractor living in Hong Kong. He's part of the jQuery UI development team and contributed large parts of the upcoming spinner component and its automated tests to jQuery UI.
Maggie Costello Wachs
Maggie, production manager and front-end developer at Filament Group Inc., is a member of the jQuery UI design team and collaborates on widget design and documentation, accessible markup structure, and the jQuery UI CSS framework. She contributed working design prototypes for the menu and positionTo widgets.
Keith Wood
Keith is the initial co-creator of the datepicker widget and continued to work on it after being included to jQuery UI. He's now part of the jQuery UI development team, and you can also find some plugins about time control on his personal website.
Richard D. Worth
Richard D. Worth is a UI Developer living in Northern VA (Wash DC suburbs). He has contributed a lot to the selectables and dialog plugins, while also keeping great focus on writing tests for UI components, refining the internal core, and writing good documentation for all components. Additionally, he's the lead of the jQuery UI build & release team.
Jörn Zaefferer
Jörn is a Java engineer living in Cologne, Germany. He's part of the jQuery UI development team and contributed his accordion and autocomplete plugins to jQuery UI. He has also been a driving force of the jQuery core development process, pushing out many of the 1.0.x releases. He's responsible for completely rebuilding the jQuery test suite, now known as QUnit, and writing a large number of the test cases.
Past Contributors
Aaron Eisenberger
Aaron is a senior webmaster and design guru with experience in all realms of traditional design, web design, web application development, user interface design, project management, client interaction, software maintenance and troubleshooting. He contributed the first jQuery UI Effects.
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.
Thomas Klose
Tom is a creative director living in germany, focussing on interaction and interfaces. He was responsible for the first theming guidelines for jQuery UI and created the polarizing Flora theme that gained much attention. He's also the creator of the original jQuery UI Logo, the merge of U and I.