compiz and the standard set of plugins are designed and written by

David Reveman <davidr@novell.com>

with additional functionality by

Radek Doulik <rodo@novell.com> IO multiplexing
Mirco Müller <macslow@bangang.de> Skydome support in cube plugin
Søren Sandmann <sandmann@redhat.com> plane plugin
Dan Winship <danw@novell.com> gconf-dump plugin
Brian Paul <brian.paul@tungstengraphics.com> Matrix functions

and other contributions by

Mike Cook <mcook@novell.com>
Mike Dransfield <mike@blueroot.co.uk>
Diogo Ferreira <diogo@underdev.org>
gandalfn <gandalfn@club-internet.fr>
Guillaume <ixcemix@gmail.com>
Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Dennis Kasprzyk <onestone@beryl-project.org>
Gerd Kohlberger <lowfi@chello.at>
Volker Krause <vkrause@kde.org>
moppsy <moppsy@comcast.net>
Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
Thierry Reding <thierry@gilfi.de>
Julian Sikorski <lordzanon@poczta.onet.pl>
Quinn Storm <livinglatexkali@gmail.com>
Erkin Bahceci <erkinbah@gmail.com>