Development Team
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A core development team, in collaboration with community members, develops ThinkUp.

Core Team
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**Gina Trapani** started building ThinkUp in the summer of 2009 as a personal weekend project. She served as Project
Director at ThinkUp's incubator, `Expert Labs <http://expertlabs.org>`_, from February of 2010 until March of 2012.
Today, she is the cofounder of the ThinkUp company, leading application development.

*   `ginatrapani on GitHub <https://github.com/ginatrapani>`_
*   `@ginatrapani on Twitter <https://twitter.com/ginatrapani>`_
*   `+Gina Trapani on Google+ <https://plus.google.com/113612142759476883204>`_

**Anil Dash** founded ThinkUp's incubator, `Expert Labs <http://expertlabs.org>`_, and cofounded the ThinkUp company
with Gina Trapani. He is responsible for ThinkUp's look and feel. `See Anil's 
ThinkUp contributions <https://github.com/ginatrapani/ThinkUp/commits/master?author=anildash>`_.

*   `anildash on GitHub <https://github.com/anildash>`_
*   `@anildash on Twitter <https://twitter.com/anildash>`_
*   `+Anil Dash on Google+ <https://plus.google.com/103012564142649561853/>`_
*   `Anil Dash on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/anil.dash>`_

**Mark Wilkie** worked on ThinkUp through Expert Labs from May of 2010 until March 2012 as a lead developer and
application architect. `See Mark's ThinkUp 
contributions <https://github.com/ginatrapani/ThinkUp/commits/master?author=mwilkie>`_.

*   `mwilkie on GitHub <https://github.com/mwilkie>`_
*   `@mwilkie on Twitter <https://twitter.com/mwilkie>`_

**Andy Baio** worked on ThinkUp through Expert Labs from November of 2010 until March 2012, responsible for data
analysis and visualization. Now he advises the ThinkUp company. `See Andy's ThinkUp
contributions <https://github.com/ginatrapani/ThinkUp/commits/master?author=waxpancake>`_.

*   `waxpancake on GitHub <https://github.com/waxpancake>`_
*   `@waxpancake on Twitter <https://twitter.com/waxpancake>`_
*   `+Andy Baio on Google+ <https://plus.google.com/103765655241162838230/>`_

Community
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At ThinkUp, our goal is to create the most inclusive and innovative open source projects in the world. Read more about
`how our community and culture is our best feature 
<http://smarterware.org/7819/my-codeconf-talk-your-community-is-your-best-feature>`_.

The core team works with a growing community of volunteer and third-party contributors, some of whom are
paid by their employer or through open source programs. 

`See ThinkUp's full list of contributors <https://github.com/ginatrapani/ThinkUp/contributors>`_.