JACK was inspired by and partially designed during discussions on the Linux Audio Developers mailing list. Particularly significant contributions to those discussions came from (in alphabetical order): Paul Davis David Olofson Benno Sennoner Kai Vehmanen Many other members of LAD contributed ideas to JACK, particularly Richard Guenther. Paul Davis was the principal author of the JACK API and of the sample implementation contained here. Andy Wingo provided many small patches Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano contributed the capabilities-based code. Jeremy Hall, Steve Harris, and Martin Boer contributed sample clients and utilities. Jack O'Quin contributed documentation and minor development work. Many others have contributed patches and/or test results.