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The CentOS distribution would not be possible without the hard work and

dedication of a large number of talented people. It's only fair that we

acknowledge the time and effort that they have put into the distribution.

We are always in need of more volunteers. If you're interested in joining

the CentOS Project, please join us on irc.freenode.net in #centos-devel or 

via the mailing list at http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/

## Special Recognition ## 

One of the key reasons we got delayed on the CentOS-6 release was lack of 

suitable build resources, especially when we had to repeatedly build large

chunks of code. Norwood S came forward and worked with me to 

setup a large build machine, then tune the build process and help improve

the overall build, test and validate process we were using. This build

machine he donated to the project was about 5 times more capable than the

entire buildsystem we had. And he did this out of his own pocket, from

his own time, and has since upgraded the machine as well. It's now a 128GB,

48 core machine, with 4 SSD's and 4 sata disks : but the key metric is 

that it can build from source, the entire CentOS-7 distro in under 22 hrs.

Having this capability was key in our ability to build, test and deliver

CentOS-7 as rapidly as we have been able to.

We'd like to dedicate the CentOS-7 Release to Mr Norwood S, of Phoenix,

AZ, USA for his continued support for the project.

Contributors:

  The Red Hat developers, without whom CentOS would look very different

  Akemi Matsuno-Yagi

  Alain Reguera Delgado

  Alan Bartlett

  Andreas Thienemann

  Anssi Johansson

  Athmane Madjoudj

  Bonnie King

  Brian Stinson

  Carl Trieloff

  Christoph Galuschka

  Fabian Arrotin

  Jakub Filak

  James Moger

  Jeff Sheltren

  Jim Perrin

  Johnny Hughes Jr

  Karanbir Singh

  Karsten Wade

  Kay Williams

  Manuel Wolfshant

  Matej Habrnal

  Marcus Moeller

  Michael Scherer

  Mike McLean

  Pablo Sebastián Greco

  Pat Riehecky

  Ralph Angenendt

  Scott Robbins

  Stephen John Smoogen

  Trevor Hemsley

  Tru Huynh

  Tuomas Kuosmanen

  Tuomo Soini

  Tyler Parsons