Introducing... THE LERNUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Name: Bertilo WENNERGREN (bertilow)

Country: South Korea and Germany (with a Swedish passport)

Responsibilities: Programming and language advice

Introduction: I was born in 1956. I learned Esperanto in 1980 (after being interested in the language for many years). I am a programmer and musician, and a member of the Academy of Esperanto. I live together with my wife mostly in Seoul, South Korea, but for part of the year in Germany. Esperanto is our home language.

Name: Erin PIATESKI (erinja)

Country: United States

Responsibilities: Translates the lernu! website into English, helps with sound recording, and organises collaboration between lernu! and NASK.

Introduction: I was born in 1980, near the capital city of the United States. I started learning Esperanto in 1995 because I heard that Esperanto was an easy language, and I wanted to be able to fluently speak a foreign language. I didn't imagine at all at the time that you could travel using Esperanto. I am a mechanical engineer. In my free time I like to read and to cook vegetarian food from around the world.

Name: Hokan LUNDBERG (ho)

Country: Sweden

Responsibilities: In lernu! helps with programming, courses, and planning.

Introduction: I was born in Sweden in 1972 and started with Esperanto as a 25-year old. Since then, I have been active in various Esperanto projects and organizations. In 2002 I went to live in Belgrade (Serbia) with Sonja Petrovic (another team member) and worked full-time on Esperanto projects, mostly lernu.net, for 3 years. Now I live in Stockholm (Sweden) and I teach programming at a high school.

Name: Jevgenij GAUS (Jev)

Country: Lithuania

Responsibilities: Is now the primary programmer of lernu!.

Introduction: I started my life in the year 1978. In 1999 I started to learn Esperanto and after several months of learning, started to teach it. Now I study law and at the same time, I am involved in Esperanto. I really like to keep busy with various international projects.

Name: Neringa GAUS (Jasminka)

Country: Lithuania

Responsibilities: Works on lernu! content, creates exercises, works on the sections "Periodicals" and "Word of the day", helps with translation of lernu!.

Introduction: In the year 1984, destiny decided that I should begin to see the world, and I ... was born. I began to learn Esperanto in 2001 and little by little became busy with various E-projects. Now I dedicate much time to lernu! and to the Lithuanian language internet magazine "Esperanto mozaika". Aside from that I study computer science at a Lithuanian university.

Name: Sonja PETROVIĆ (so)

Country: Serbia and Montenegro (but now lives in Sweden)

Responsibilities: Official coordinator of lernu! projects, is occupied with a bit of nearly everything ;-).

Introduction: In the year 1998, as a 15-year old, I decided to learn Esperanto to experience countries other than the ex-Yugoslavia, where I was born. In retrospect, it was a good idea: thanks to Esperanto, I have done a lot of international travel, until 2004, when my daughter Iva was born. In 2005 we moved to Sweden, the home country of Iva's father, Hokan.
Aside from Esperanto projects and playing with the little one, I study and I enjoy reading, meeting friends, growing flowers and vegetables, and decorating our new home.

Important team members

Aaron CHAPMAN (Arono)

Provides voice and recording and was the chief visual designer of lernu!. He lives with his wife Charlene in Vancouver, Canada. Aaron is one of the first team members.

Allon ROTHFARB (Allon)

A programmer from Israel. Helped with programming and making the Hebrew version (and other languages written right to left - RTL) of the site functional.

Chuck SMITH (amuzulo)

The founder of the Wikipedia in Esperanto and Eklaboru. He helped translate and test lernu!.

Clayton SMITH (Argilo)

The first head programmer of the site. He is now occupied with server administration at lernu!

Cleve LENDON

Programmer from Canada who now lives in Tokyo, Japan. In lernu! he created the word separator for the dictionary and several games. As well as creating software and Esperanto homepages, Cleve enjoys Irish dancing.

Helen CLAESSON

Drew most of the illustrations on the site, including pictures for the courses "Gerda Malaperis", "Jen nia IJK", "Ana Pana", and "Ana Renkontas", pictures in the concise grammar, and all pictures with Maz the cat.

Henning VON ROSEN (henning)

Contributed much to the concept of lernu!, was one of the first team members. Helped create a picture dictionary for lernu!. Henning lives in Sweden.

Ingvar VON SCHOULTZ (Ingvar)

He lives in Sweden. He helped lernu! with programming, primarily for the course "Vojaĝu kun Zam".

Oleg IZYUMENKO (Oleg326756)

Helped lernu! with translation into Russian, language tutoring, and implementation of Google technologies at the site. Also worked to obtain support from Google for lernu! and implement lernu!'s participation in Google's programs.

Radojica PETROVIC

Created exercises for the lernu! course "Jen nia IJK". Teaches computer science and teaching methods at a university in Ĉaĉak, Serbia and Montenegro. Radojica is the president of ILEI (the International League of Esperanto Teachers). Does a lot of work for project Interkulturo.

Vitaly MONASTYREV (mesh)

A programmer from the Ukraine, now living in Germany. Helped with programming and the downloadable version of lernu!.