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+# Primary Authors
+
+- Upinder S. Bhalla - Primary Architect, Chemical kinetic solvers
+- Niraj Dudani - Neuronal solver
+- Subhasis Ray - PyMOOSE Design and Documentation, Python Plugin Interface, NSDF Format
+- G.V.HarshaRani - MOOSE website design (https://moose.ncbs.res.in), SBML support, Kinetikit Plugin Development
+- Aditya Gilra - NeuroML, integrate-and-fire neurons/networks, STDP
+- Dilawar Singh - Packaging, Boost solvers, Maintenance
+
+# Major Contributions
+
+- Aviral Goel - Moogli/Neurokit Development
+- Padraig Gleeson - NeurML2 support
+- Dhruva Gowda Storz - Documentation
+- Malav Shah - Documentation
+
+# Other contributions
+
+Please see https://github.com/BhallaLab/moose/graphs/contributors and https://github.com/BhallaLab/moose-core/graphs/contributors 
+for all contributions made to MOOSE project since 2015.
+
+# Credits 
+
+We thank [Google Summer of Code](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/) via [INCF](https://incf.org)
+for funding developmennt activities, and [Open Build Service](https://build.opensuse.org] for building and 
+hosting our packages.