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+# jndn-management Authors
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+The following lists maintainers, primary developers, and all much-appreciated contributors to jndn-management in alphabetic order.
+The specific contributions of individual authors can be obtained from the git history of the [official jndn-management repository](https://github.com/named-data/jndn-management).
+If you would like to become a contributor to the official repository, please follow the recommendations in https://github.com/named-data/.github/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md.
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+* ***(Maintainer)*** Alexander Afanasyev <https://users.cs.fiu.edu/~afanasyev>
+* ***(Former Maintainer)*** Andrew Brown <https://github.com/abrown>
+* Eric Newberry <https://ericnewberry.com>
+* Davide Pesavento <https://github.com/Pesa>
+* Sebastian Schoenberg <https://github.com/sschoenb>
+* Jeff Thompson <https://remap.ucla.edu/jeff-thompson>