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Major Participants
Roberto Ierusalimschy (real name)
A professor at PUC-Rio, author of Lua.371
Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo (real name)
A researcher at IMPA, author of Lua.
Rodrigo Miranda
The project leader for Kepler, former Ph.D. student at PUC-Rio (with Roberto Ierusalimschy), affiliated with Nas Nuvens, a company sponsoring Kepler.
Jason, also Zé Luis
A software developer originally from Nova Iguaçu, a city near Rio.
Now working at Nas Nuvens.
Other Participants Mentioned in the Text
The participants are listed in alphabetical order by first name, as referred in the text. With one exception (noted below), all names are pseudonyms. The participants were interviewed in 2007, except where stated otherwise.
Alan
A Kepler contributor living outside Rio (interviewed by phone in 2007 and 2008).
Antônio
A manager at Tecgraf, graduate of PUC-Rio, a user of Lua since 1993. (Interviewed twice: in 2005 and 2007.)
Bruno
A PUC professor and a researcher at Tecgraf. An early user of Lua.
Carlos
A higher-up official at PUC working to promote Lua at PUC, Chico’s boss.
Cássio
A developer at Tecgraf, the original author of LuaForm, the predecessor of CGILua. (Interviewed twice: in 2005 and 2007.)
Célio
A Senior Systems Analyst for a foreign consulting company.
Chico
A Lua evangelist at PUC, friend of Roberto Ierusalimschy.
Craig
An engineer at a startup in Silicon Valley, a user of Lua.
Daniel
A partner at Nas Nuvens.
Edmundo
A software developer working for a large foreign hardware company in Barra da Tijuca (interviewed in 2005).
Eduardo
A founding partner at Alta (not formally interviewed).
Fabio
A partner at Alta and a former contributor to Kepler.
Felipe
A founding partner of Alta.
Jaime
A software freelancer working with Delphi and looking to move to Java.
João
A brother of Rodrigo Miranda, the founder and head of Nas Nuvens.
Jorge
A former electronics researcher now teaching computer science.
Leonardo
A minority partner at Alta.
Luciano A software developer working at Nas Nuvens.
Luis
A founding partner of Alta
Luiz Fernando Soares (real name)
A PUC professor heading development of Ginga.
Márcio
A Kepler contributor working for PUC IT.
Marcos
An employee at Alta (not formally interviewed).
Mauricio
An Alta employee
Michel
A researcher working on Ginga.
Miguel
A developer in a software company.
Pedro A software developer working at Nas Nuvens.
Renato
A friend of Rodrigo Miranda, now working as a manager for a software company using Java.
Ricardo
A software developer at PUC working on a project based on Kepler.
Rich
An software consultant in Berkeley, a user of Lua.
Rogerio
A minority partner at Alta, working on a Kepler project together with Fabio in 2007.
Silvio
A researcher at PUC and an early user of Lua.
Steve
A team lead in a large software company in California, a user of Lua.
Tiago
A Kepler contributor and a Ph.D. student at PUC.
Other Participants Interviewed in 2007
Table 1 lists participants interviewed in 2007 not included in the list above (but including those who were also interviewed in 2005). Basic demographic information is provided for whom it was recorded. The list does not include informal conversations.
Other Participants Interviewed in 2005
Table 2 lists participants interviewed in 2005, excluding those included in the list or tables earlier in this appendix. Basic demographic information is provided for whom it was recorded. The list does not include informal conversations.