Sponsors:

    Bouvet (http://www.bouvet.no)
    
        Employs the core developers.
    
    Creuna (http://www.creuna.no)
    
        Previous employer of core developers, and sponsor of the original development.
    
    Ontopia (http://www.ontopia.net)
    
        Ontopia helped design ZTM2 and shared valuable Topic Map experience.
    

Developers:

    Tom Bech (Bouvet) -- Main developer, who more or less wrote the core of the
    initial implementation.
    
    Jostein Leira (Genus) -- Co developer on the original ZTM2 implementation.
    
    Stian Danenbarger (Bouvet) -- Project Architect and orginal idea.
    
    Arnar Lundesgaard (Bouvet) -- Current maintainer.
    
    Hilde Ronnemyr (Bouvet) -- Templates and other client work.
    
    Øystein Hunnes (Bouvet) -- Usability and information design for the
    original and current TMS/CMS features. 
    
    Tomm Anders Eriksen (USIT) -- Usability and information design for the
    original TMS/CMS features.
    
    Lars Hurlen -- Major design influence and designer of the topic map
    patterns we use for navigating and visualizing topicmaps.

Others that have influenced this work:

    Steve Pepper (Ontopia) -- His Topic Map consulting for 'forskning.no' influenced many
    of the design decisions for ZTM2.
    
    Kal Ahmed (Techquila) -- Main developer of TM4J and TMAPI which ZTM is loosely
    based on. Taught us Python and Zope Zen, He helped us develop the original
    idea.
    
    Geir Ove Grønmo (Ontopia) --  Another important Python and Zope
    influence. He was one of the key developers of ZTM1.
    
    Erik Enge -- Superman!! The most codeslinging developer we have ever met.
    Fastest dvorak-typer on the Net.
    
    Andreas R. Johnsen (Bouvet) -- Technical manager on several large ZTM
    projects. Developed several ZTM components, most notably the image database.

Thanks goes to:

    Toby Dickinson, Dieter Mauer, Seb Beacon and others that have given us some
    crucial answers on the public Zope mailinglists.

    Zope Corp for making a very good Open Source Application Server Package.

    'http://itu.no' for letting us build the worlds first (to our knowledge)
    Topic Map portals.
    
    'http://forskning.no' (Popular science portal for the Norwegian Science
    Council) for being the first site developed on ZTM2.

    'http://forbrukerportalen.no' (Norwegian Consumer Council) for giving us an
    opportunity to continue building TopicMap sites and making ZTM2 a
    commercially viable plattform.

    'http://skifte.no' (Special project for the Norwegian Armed Forces) for
    letting us prove that ZTM also works for smaller websites.

    'http://hoyre.no' (Norwegian conservatives) for letting us push TopicMaps
    and ZTM to the edges, by using advanced topicmaps concepts.

    'http://itu.no' and 'http://luna.itu.no' again for sticking with us and the
    Topic Maps concept and upgrading from ZTM1 to ZTM2. (Those were the only
    sites built in ZTM1)

    'http://matportalen.no' (Norwegian Food Authorities) for letting us
    stabilize, clean up and substantially improve the plattform and related
    plugins.

    SSB (Norwgian Census/Statistics Bureau, http://ssb.no) for using ZTM for the
    intranet, so that we could see how Topic Maps can function on intranett
    portals.