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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. The two were also members of a student club at Berkeley called the eXperimental Computer Facility (XCF) {Link without Title} . Kimball said in 1999 that, "From the first line of Source Code to the last, GIMP was always my 'dues' paid to the Free Software Movement . After using Emacs , Gcc , Linux , etc., I really felt that I owed a debt to the community which had, to a large degree, shaped my computing development." (Stig Hackvän, Interview with Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, ''Linux World'', January, 1999 {Link without Title} ) Having graduated from Berkeley in 1997 , Kimball left college for work, and mostly ended his relationship with the GIMP development community. He co-founded WeGO, a company providing tools for building web communities, in 1998 and served as the company's Chief Architect. While at XCF, he met Gene Kan, who was also a member, and the two would later begin working together on the file-sharing program Gnutella , including development of a Unix/Linux client. In 2000 , he created a web-based version of GIMP, OnlinePhotoLab.com, that was short-lived. |
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