Corey Frang (Chicago, United States)

Corey is the President of Momentum Workshop, Inc. and is active in jQuery community on IRC, and Stack Overflow. He is currently working on the effects and animations for jQuery UI, and the jQuery.Color plugin and hopes that his work will “effect” your websites positively.

Scott González (North Carolina, United States)

jQuery UI Development Lead
Secretary

Scott is a web developer living in Raleigh, NC. As a jQuery UI Development Lead, he puts a lot of effort into maintaining the existing code base to make sure it is small, efficient and consistent. Scott also leads the accessibility team and works with new contributors to help improve the project and the community.

Dan Heberden (Oregon, United States)

Infrastructure Lead
Technology Committee Chair

Dan Heberden is a web consultant based in Portland, Oregon. As a member of the jQuery team, Dan oversees the infrastructure needs of the project and is the Documentation Lead for jQuery UI. He loves helping with open source projects and enjoys teaching others how to write great code.

Yehuda Katz (California, United States)

Standards Lead
Treasurer

Yehuda is a developer living in San Francisco, CA who maintained the web site Visual jQuery, and published the Visual jQuery Magazine. Additionally, he’s a frequent contributor to the jQuery Blog and promoter of good practices within the jQuery core. Yehuda is a member of the Ruby on Rails Core Team, and spends much of his time traveling to promote and evangelize both jQuery and Rails.

Dave Methvin (United States)

jQuery Core Lead
President

Dave is a long-time contributor to jQuery, providing extensive help on the jQuery bug tracker and in the jQuery discussion forums. As the lead of the jQuery dev team he works to ensure high quality, timely, releases of the library, organizes the planning and development efforts of the team, and generally drives the direction of the library.

Todd Parker (Boston, United States)

jQuery Mobile Lead
jQuery UI Design Lead

Todd, a principal at Filament Group Inc., is lead of the jQuery UI design team with a focus on creating a coherent visual and interaction design system for the widget library. He is also involved with the design of the ThemeRoller application and jQuery UI CSS class framework.

John Resig (Boston, United States)

John was the original creator of the jQuery library. He works with the jQuery dev team and the jQuery board to help set the direction of the project

Leah Silber (California, United States)

Events Lead
Community and Marketing Committee Chair

Leah is responsible for jQuery fundraising and event management, as well as for online marketing and sponsorship initiatives, like the 14 Days of jQuery. She works for Strobe, an open source company focused on building technologies for the mobile web, as their Director of Marketing. She previously worked as a consultant for clients in the tech sector, and was employed managing the Community Marketing and Events department at Engine Yard. She runs GoGaRuCo, the annual San Francisco Ruby Conference, and in 2010, started and ran the Ruby Summer of Code program. She is originally from Brooklyn, NY and now lives in San Francisco, CA with her husband.

Adam Sontag (New York, United States)

Developer Relations Lead

Adam J. Sontag is a New York City-based developer with Boston’s Bocoup. He’s the Developer Relations lead for jQuery and jQuery UI and co-host of the yayQuery podcast. In other words, he’s dedicated to keeping the jQuery project in sync with the community’s needs and wants.

Rick Waldron (Boston, United States)

Rick Waldron works at Bocoup in Boston, where he is a JavaScript enthusiast and evangelist and jQuery core committer.

Ralph Whitbeck (New York, United States)

Ralph leads the Plugins, Forum and Podcast subteams. On the podcast subteam he is a co-host of the Official jQuery Podcast which interviews key members of the jQuery community. Ralph is a senior web application engineer at BrandLogic Corporation where he builds web applications with jQuery for Fortune 500 companies.

Richard D. Worth (Washington, D.C., United States)

jQuery UI Project Lead
Executive Director

Richard D. Worth is Executive Director of the jQuery Foundation and the jQuery UI Project Lead. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area and works for Bocoup, training mobile and web developers in JavaScript, jQuery, and jQuery UI.

Jörn Zaefferer (Cologne, Germany)

Testing Lead
jQuery UI Development Lead

Jörn is a freelance web developer, consultant and trainer, based in Cologne, Germany.

Jörn evolved jQuery’s testsuite into QUnit, a JavaScript unit testing framework, and maintains it. He created and maintains a number of popular plugins.

As a jQuery UI development lead, he focuses on the development of new plugins, widgets and utilities.