We would like to acknowledge the tremendous contributions of time, technology, and code that have been made to our open source project. Beginning in the fall of 2018, we began participating in hackathons in Seattle and at the University of Washington. In summer, 2019, we partnered with Microsoft through their amazing hackathon community. In 2020, Orcasound became a host organization for Google Summer of Code (GSoC).
In combination with our Github repositories , these events have brought many talented programmers, designers, engineers, researchers, and “geeks for good” to the project. They have made it possible to rapidly develop and refine the Orcasound app — a new way to listen for whales — based on a cutting-edge suite of inexpensive and open source hardware and software for live streaming audio data.
Orcasound at a democracy lab hackathon in Seattle (photo by Mark Frischmuth).So, let’s have a virtual round of applause for the following stand-out members of the Orcasound open source community. If you’re inspired by their contributions to our Github repositories or Democracy Lab hackathons, don’t hesitate to support the Founders and Influencers directly! Sing their praises on social media and networks; join them in hacking for orca conservation; reinforce their volunteerism financially.
Founders
(Long-Term Contributors)Like Orcasound organizational members(who have their own amazing volunteers!), founders can raise funds under the auspices of Orcasound to support their own Orcasound efforts or the project in general. The also have shown leadership in the community and often have administrative access to key parts of the Orcasound infrastructure.
Founders can raise funds under the auspices of Orcasound to support their own Orcasound efforts or the project in general.Paul Cretu
Orcasound site & player (2017+)
GSoC mentor (2021)
Orcasound site (2017-2020, 2023-2025)
Admin UI (2019)
Steve Hicks
Orcanode repository (2018+)
GSoC mentor (2020+)
Brendan Thatcher
User research & UX team lead (2020+)
GSoC mentor (2021)
Node engineering and machine learning (2017+)
GSoC mentor (2020+)
Scott Veirs
Project management (2017+)
GSoC mentor (2020+)
Mike Castor
UI v2 implementation (2019-2020)
2017 Kickstarter Campaign creation.
2017+ Product Manager and UX Designer.
2021 Google Summer of Code mentor.
Orcamap 2018+
Valentina Staneva
Microsoft AI4Earth Innovation Grant lead (2019)
GSoC mentor and administrative lead (2020+)
UW MS Data Science mentor (2022-23)
Prakruti Gogia
OrcaHello project manager
Pod.Cast creator (Microsoft hackathons, 2019-2021)
OrcaHello, Founding project lead (2019-2023)
Pod.Cast creator
Praful Mathur
Experiment.com funding (2021)
GSoC mentor (2022)
Michelle Yang
Microsoft hackathon project manager (2020+)
Jesse Lopez
GSoC mentor (2020-2021)
Graphic design (2017+)
Influencers
(Major Contributors)
Founders can raise funds under the auspices of Orcasound to support their own Orcasound efforts or the project in general.
Google Summer of Code (GSoc) Participants
Kunal Mehta
(India)
GSoC contributor (2020)
GSoC mentor (2021)
Diego Roderiguez
(Mexico)
GSoC contributor (2020)
(Ecuador)
GSoC contributor (2021)
(Russia)
GSoC contributor (2021)
(India)
GSoC contributor (2021)
Jose Giraldo
(Colombia, Spain)
GSoC contributor (2021)
Ambra Jin
(Italy, UK, Germany)
GSoC contributor (2022)
Devdoot Chatterjee
(India)
GSoC contributor (2022)
(Singapore, USA)
GSoC contributor (2022)
(India)
GSoC contributor (2022)
Paul Nguyen Hong Duc
(France, Canada)
GSoC mentor (2022)
Live Listening App UI & Development Team
UX/UI/design project manager (2021+)
Elena Bukhonok
UX/UI/design project manager (2020-21)
Sam St Michael
Design, branding, social media (2020+)
James Pedersen
Full stack developer (2020)
Wei Li
Catherine Zeng
UX Designer
Arcatia.io Data Cooperative
Maria Palamar
Facilitation & user research (2020+)
Graise Lee Jenni
Facilitation & user research (2020+)
Tech Lead for Acartia
Peter Ince
Development (2020-22)
Nick Bryne
Design & Project Management (2020-21)
Data Exchange + Mobile App Customization (2019+)
Data Exchange + Mobile App Customization (2019+)
Project Management Team
Project Manager, Fundraising (2022-23)
Heather Gordon
Project Manager (2021-2)
Sanjari Jain
Project Manager (2021)
Development Project Manager (2021)
PodCast
(ML-Assisted Annotation Tool)OrcaHello
(Real-Time Inference System Leads)Prakruti Gogia
Overall Lead
Mike Cowan
Moderation system, Front End
Claire Goetschel
Moderation system, Design
Akash Mahajan
Annotation System
Aayush Agrawal
Machine Learning Development
Chris Hanke
Public Relations
Adele Bai
Notification System
Michelle Yang
Azure Administration+
Individual Contributors
Erin Pierce-Magdalik
User-centered design of 2019 UI v2 (2019)
Implementation of 2019 UI v2 (2019)
Samantha Berk
Administrative back end (2018-19)
Graphic design (2017-2020)
Erika Pelaez
Machine learning (2018)
Machine learning & spectrograms from FLAC files (2018+)
Ivan Storck
Orcamap code clean-up & contribution standards (2020-21)
Joyce Liao
Orcanode repo & Raspberry Pi testing (2020+)
Adrian MacDonald
Content strategy, analytics, conservation impact (2021+)
Maria Palamar
Conservation impact (2020+)
Glenn Block
UX Designer & Researcher (2023+)
Product Manager (2023+)
UX Designer (2023+)
Erika facilitating an early discussion of machine learning and the Orcadata repository.
Val working on the Orcanode software and hardware.