• Albert Wuersch (lead concepts of the base classes and the oo-design)
  
• Victor Götsch (lead concept of the distributed system and the knowledge base)
  
• Tobias Oetiker (lead guidance of concepts and website design)
  
• David Schweikert (co-guidance of concepts and ideas)
  

gossips has been developed at the expense of the IT Support Group of the Departement für Elektrotechnik, ETZ Zürich to provide the basis for a monitoring concept of the IT network in this department.

gossips builds on the work of many other people. Above all we would like to thank:

• Larry Wall for the Perl Programming Language
  
• Tom Christiansen for the Perl Cookbook