- The BAM project, University Laval, sponsored project management kick-start.

- CadCorp (http://www.cadcorp.com/) sponsored WKB and datum format design
  and implementation.

- The Michigan Tech Research Institute sponsored spatial operators
  implementation.

- Refractions Research Inc. provided svn repository 

- Pierre Racine designed the functionality

- Sandro Santilli wrote the in-memory api, build scripts and
  postgresql connectors