A student organization at UC Berkeley founded in 1988 by Phil Lapsley. Members of the organization have been involved in projects such as NNTP, GTK, GIMP, Gnutella, and Viola. The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, UC Berkeley, UCB, or simply Berkeley) is a prestigious, public, coeducational university situated in the foothills of Berkeley, California to the east of San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate and its bridge. ... The Network News Transport Protocol or NNTP is an Internet application protocol used primarily for reading and posting Usenet articles, as well as transferring news among servers. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... The GNU Image Manipulation Program or The GIMP is a bitmap graphics editor, a program for creating and processing raster graphics. ... Gnutella (pronounced ) is a file sharing network used primarily to exchange music, films and software. ... ViolaWWW was one of the first graphically-based web browsers. ...

Noteable Alumni

Noteable alumni of the organization include: Gene Kan, Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis, Pei-Yuan Wei    This article is a stub. ... In 1995, while students at the University of California at Berkeley, Spencer Kimball and his classmate Peter Mattis developed the first version of the open source image editing program, The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) as a class project. ... Peter Mattis was one of the students at University of California, Berkeley who, together with Spencer Kimball, started work on GIMP. Categories: Stub ... Pei-Yuan Wei (魏培源, pinyin: Wèi Péiyuán) is a former undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley who created ViolaWWW, one of the first graphical web browsers. ...

External Links

• Salon.com article on the history of the Experimental Computing Facility and its role in creating free software