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+== Core development team ==
+
+Matthew Wild (matthew AT heavy-horse.co.uk)
+Waqas Hussain (waqas20 AT gmail.com)
+Tobias Markmann (tm AT ayena.de)
+Paul-Sebastian Manole (brokenthorn AT gmail.com)