# Contributors to the STACK Project

More details of our development history are given in the [development track](../Developer/Development_track.md).

* [Chris Sangwin](http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~csangwin/) of the University of Edinburgh. STACK is the brainchild of Chris Sangwin.
* [Tim Hunt](http://tjhunt.blogspot.co.uk/) and [Tim Lowe](mailto:tim.lowe@open.ac.uk) of the Open University.
* Matti Harjula of Aalto University, Finland.
* [Tim Lutz](https://tim-lutz.de/) of the University of Edinburgh and the University of Education Heidelberg.
* Edmund Farrow,  of the University of Edinburgh.

The [HELM materials](../STACK_question_admin/Library/HELM.md) were added by Konstantina Zerva, making use of the related [Gitsync](https://github.com/maths/moodle-qbank_gitsync) project to manage large question banks.

Previous developers have included

* Anupama Sarjoshi
* Sal Mercuri
* John Beedell
* Simon Hammond
* Jonathan Hart
* Ben Holmes
* Maksim Kraev
* Mikael Kurula
* Matti Pauna
* Malthe Sporring
* Dan Williams

STACK is an open source project and many others have made contributions of various sizes.

# Translation of the STACK Project

STACK is released in many languages, using Moodle's ATOS language system.

  * EN: English (British), by Chris Sangwin (and others)
  * FI: Finnish, by Matti Pauna
  * SV: Swedish, by Mikael Kurula
  * DA: Danish, by Malthe Sporring
  * ES: Spanish, by Victor Hugo Huerta
  * JA: Japanese, by Yasuyuki Nakamura and Takahiro Nakahara  

German documentation was added in Jan 2019 by Eva Mix and Mario Josupeit of University of Cologne, Germany.

Details of how to add language packs, translate STACK, and forthcoming translations, are given on the [Language packs](../Developer/Language_packs.md) developers page.

# Other implementations and projects

STACK has been ported to the plugin [assStackQuestion](https://github.com/ilifau/assStackQuestion) for the Learning Management System [ILIAS](https://www.ilias.de/)  by:

- Jesus Copado
- Fred Neumann

This project received a lot of moral support from the ILIAS association and its product manager Matthias Kunkel, as well as funding from various institutions:

- Duale Hochschule Baden Württemberg
- Hochschule Bremen
- Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg
- Fachhochschule Aachen
- Hochschule Karlsruhe
- Fachhochschule Münster
- Universität Freiburg
- Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Universität zu Köln

# User list

The following institutions made use of previous versions of STACK.  If you are actively using STACK and would like to be listed below then please contact the developers.

School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh
: The home of STACK. Contact [Chris Sangwin](mailto:c.j.sangwin@ed.ac.uk).

School of Mathematics and Statistics, The Open University,
: Contact [Tim Hunt](mailto:t.j.hunt@open.ac.uk) and [Tim Lowe](mailto:tim.lowe@open.ac.uk)

School of Science, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
: Contact Matti Harjula and [Antti Rasila](http://math.tkk.fi/en/research/matta/)

Department of Mathematics Education, Loughborough University
: Contact [Ian Jones](mailto:I.Jones@lboro.ac.uk)

School of Informatics and Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan
: Contact [Yasuyuki Nakamura](mailto:nakamura@nagoya-u.jp)

Ja STACK Community
: Contact [Ja STACK.org](http://ja-stack.org/)

Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Leiria, Portugal
: Contact [Rui Paiva](mailto:rui.paiva@estg.ipleiria.pt)

School of Computing, Information and Mathematical Sciences, The University of the South Pacific
: Contact [Dhiraj Bhartu](mailto:dhiraj.bhartu@usp.ac.fj)

Gymnasium Himmelsthür, Hildesheim, Deutschland
: Contact [Frank Schütte](mailto:fschuett@gymnasium-himmelsthuer.de)

Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo
: Contact [Victor Hugo Huerta](mailto:v2hugo@gmail.com)

e-MAIO project, Coimbra Institute of Engineering, Portugal
: Contact [e_MAIO@isec.pt](mailto:e_MAIO@isec.pt)

Maseno University, Kenya
: Contact [Michael Oyengo](mailto:obiero@live.de)

IDEMS International
: Contact [Santiago Borio](mailto:smborio@idems.international)

ETH Zürich, Switzerland
: Contact [Meike Akveld](mailto:meike.akveld@math.ethz.ch), [George Ionita](mailto:georgeionut.ionita@math.ethz.ch), [Andreas Steiger](mailto:andreas.steiger@math.ethz.ch)
