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    <h1>About us</h1>

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       We're a group of volunteers trying to make the life easier for PHP developers fighting with SQL database out there.
        This gives us the ability to provide you a completely open-source MIT licensed library for free.
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        You can see our activity at
        <a href="https://github.com/propelorm/Propel2/pulse/weekly">GitHub pulse of Propel2</a>,
        <a href="https://github.com/propelorm/Propel2/graphs/contributors">contributions graph</a>,
        <a href="https://github.com/propelorm/Propel2/commits/master">commits</a>,
        <a href="https://github.com/propelorm/Propel2/releases">tagged releases</a>
        and other <a href="https://github.com/propelorm">legacy projects and libraries</a> we're providing for you.
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    <h2>Contributors</h2>

    <p>Of course Propel is not made by one or two persons - how would you do that with such a big project with lots of nuts and bolts?
        Propel is continuously made through the last decade
        <a href="https://github.com/propelorm/Propel/graphs/contributors">by hundreds</a> of
        <a href="https://github.com/propelorm/Propel2/graphs/contributors">super awesome people</a>!</p>

    <p>A huge thanks to all those awesome contributors!</p>
    Every bug report, every pull request and every code review is not only much appreciated by the Propel team, but surely
    also by the whole propel community! Propel wouldn't be Propel without this outstanding contributions.</p>

    <h2>Core Team</h2>

    <p>The core team members that spend a lot of time into this project to provide you a super fast, super easy and
    modern ORM for PHP are:</p>

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        <h3>Francois Zaninotto</h3>
        former lead developer
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            <a href="http://redotheweb.com/">redotheweb.com</a>
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        <a class="icon-twitter" href="https://twitter.com/francoisz"></a>
        <a class="icon-github" href="https://github.com/fzaninotto"></a>
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        <h3>William Durand</h3>
        former lead developer
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            <a href="http://williamdurand.fr/">williamdurand.fr</a>
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        <a class="icon-twitter" href="https://twitter.com/couac"></a>
        <a class="icon-github" href="https://github.com/willdurand"></a>
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        <h3>Hugo Hamon</h3>
        core developer
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            <a href="http://www.hugohamon.com/">www.hugohamon.com</a>
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        <a class="icon-twitter" href="https://twitter.com/hhamon"></a>
        <a class="icon-github" href="https://github.com/hhamon"></a>
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        <h3>Marc J. Schmidt</h3>
        former lead developer
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            <a href="http://marcjschmidt.de">marcjschmidt.de</a>
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        <a class="icon-github" href="https://github.com/marcj"></a>
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        <h3>Jérémie Augustin</h3>
        core developer
        <p>
            <a href="http://www.pixel-cookers.com/">www.pixel-cookers.com</a>
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        <a class="icon-twitter" href="https://twitter.com/pixeljer"></a>
        <a class="icon-github" href="https://github.com/jaugustin"></a>
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        <h3>Toni Uebernickel</h3>
        PropelBundle
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            <a href="http://toni.uebernickel.info/">toni.uebernickel.info</a>
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        <a class="icon-twitter" href="https://twitter.com/havvg"></a>
        <a class="icon-github" href="https://github.com/havvg"></a>
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        <h3>Cristiano Cinotti</h3>
        core developer
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        <h3>Robin Dupret</h3>
        core developer/docu
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            <a href="http://robin-dupret.com/">robin-dupret.com</a>
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        <a class="icon-twitter" href="https://twitter.com/robin850"></a>
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        <h3>Markus Staab</h3>
        core developer
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        <a class="icon-github" href="https://github.com/staabm"></a>
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        <h3>Marc Scholten</h3>
        core developer
        <p>
            <a href="https://www.quintly.com/">www.quintly.com</a>
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        <a class="icon-twitter" href="https://twitter.com/_marcscholten"></a>
        <a class="icon-github" href="https://github.com/mpscholten"></a>
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    <h3>Man in the background</h3>
    Also thanks goes out to Veikko Mäkinen for sponsoring the propel domain and Benjamin Börngen-Schmidt for
    sponsoring files.propelorm.org!
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