The original author of this free software is Mark Horan who wrote the first version probably in one time between two cigarettes (although I think he quit by now) in 1997. Many revisions were made on it, and in 2001 the first public version was released. Although Mark has moved to other projects and does not maintain it, he remains the guru and creator of this project in our minds.
Judi Kirkpatrick saw some potential in it, and has been until now the main support, both technically and psychologically for further developments. She is the one who has to go through most of the problems and bugs (bad karma :), and she has been the primarly user of it for educational purpose to teach her online courses.
Then, there is bibilolo, hidden behind my screen, trying to understand what I am doing and with more difficulties trying to understand the codes I wrote back several months ago when I want to improve the script (brain farts are built-in modules of my brain).
And there is Aldon, the first person who seriously invested some time and effort to improve the software and to make significant input. Most of them, I admit are way above my head, and I do not understand them. He can be found at Lambda and LogMOO where Aloha has been running for several years.
Finally, there are all the volunteers who devoted their free time to play with it, fix bugs, and develope new packages such as (in order of appearance in the project): Laurent Lainé, George Hager, Bradley Dilger, Papa and Jane.
Thank you to all those people!!!