- 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
  
- Deimos Space (http://www.deimos-space.com/UK/index.asp?lang=UK), under
  "Espaņa Virtual" project (http://www.espanavirtual.org/?q=en) 
  sponsored the creation of several core and import/export functions