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 ==Who develops Octave?==
-Discussions about writing the software that would eventually become Octave started in about 1988 with James B. Rawlings and [http://jweaton.org/ John W. Eaton] at the University of Texas.  John W. Eaton is the original author of Octave, starting full-time development in February 1992.  He is still the primary maintainer.  The community of users and developers has in addition contributed some code and fuels the discussion on the mailing lists [https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-octave help@octave.org] (user forum), [https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/octave-maintainers maintainers@octave.org] (development issues).Also GNU Octave takes part in GSOC as a mentor organisation wherein a huge number of students apply every year and contribute to Octave thereby helping in removal of the bugs and development of new features .
+Discussions about writing the software that would eventually become Octave started in about 1988 with James B. Rawlings and [http://jweaton.org/ John W. Eaton] at the University of Texas.  John W. Eaton is the original author of Octave, starting full-time development in February 1992.  He is still the primary maintainer.  The community of users and developers has in addition contributed some code and fuels the discussion on the mailing lists [https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-octave help@octave.org] (user forum), [https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/octave-maintainers maintainers@octave.org] (development issues). Since 2011, GNU Octave regularly  participates in [[Summer of Code]] events as a mentor organisation. As part of those events, several students contributed to Octave by helping in removal of bugs and development of new features.
 ==Why "Octave"?==