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<h3 class="section">1.1 Who develops Octave?</h3>
<p>Discussions about writing the software that would eventually become
Octave started in about 1988 with James B. Rawlings and John W. Eaton at
the University of Texas. John W. Eaton was the original author of
Octave, starting full-time development in February 1992. He is still the
primary maintainer. The community of users/developers has in addition
contributed some code and fuels the discussion on the mailing lists
<a href="mailto:help@octave.org">help@octave.org</a> (user forum), <a href="mailto:maintainers@octave.org">maintainers@octave.org</a>
(development issues), and <a href="mailto:octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net">octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net</a> (all
things related to the Octave Forge repository of user-contributed
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