Sinatra was designed and developed by Blake Mizerany (bmizerany) in
California. Continued development would not be possible without the ongoing
financial support provided by [Heroku](http://heroku.com) and the emotional
support provided by Adam Wiggins (adamwiggins), Chris Wanstrath (defunkt),
PJ Hyett (pjhyett), and the rest of the GitHub crew.

Special thanks to the following extraordinary individuals, who-out which
Sinatra would not be possible:

* Ryan Tomayko (rtomayko) for constantly fixing whitespace errors 60d5006
* Ezra Zygmuntowicz (ezmobius) for initial help and letting Blake steal
  some of merbs internal code.
* Christopher Schneid (cschneid) for The Book, the blog (gittr.com),
  irclogger.com, and a bunch of useful patches.
* Markus Prinz (cypher) for patches over the years, caring about
  the README, and hanging in there when times were rough.
* Simon Rozet (sr) for a ton of doc patches, HAML options, and all that
  advocacy stuff he's going to do for 1.0.
* Erik Kastner (kastner) for fixing MIME_TYPES under Rack 0.5.
* Ben Bleything (bleything) for caring about HTTP status codes and doc fixes.
* Igal Koshevoy (igal) for root path detection under Thin/Passenger.
* Jon Crosby (jcrosby) for coffee breaks, doc fixes, and just because, man.
* Karel Minarik (karmi) for screaming until the website came back up.
* Jeremy Evans (jeremyevans) for unbreaking optional path params (twice!)
* The GitHub guys for stealing Blake's table.
* Nickolas Means (nmeans) for Sass template support.
* Victor Hugo Borja (vic) for splat'n routes specs and doco.
* Avdi Grimm (avdi) for basic RSpec support.
* Jack Danger Canty for a more accurate root directory and for making me
  watch [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueaHLHgskkw) just now.
* Mathew Walker for making escaped paths work with static files.
* Millions of Us for having the problem that led to Sinatra's conception.
* Songbird for the problems that helped Sinatra's future become realized.
* Rick Olsen (technoweenie) for the killer plug at RailsConf '08.
* Steven Garcia for the amazing custom artwork you see on 404's and 500's
* Pat Nakajima (nakajima) for fixing non-nested params in nested params Hash's.

and last but not least:

* Frank Sinatra (chairman of the board) for having so much class he
  deserves a web-framework named after him.