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+.. _chapter-acknowledgements:
+
+================
+Acknowledgements
+================
+
+A number of people have helped with the development and open sourcing
+of Ceres.
+
+Fredrik Schaffalitzky when he was at Google started the development of
+Ceres, and even though much has changed since then, many of the ideas
+from his original design are still present in the current code.
+
+Amongst Ceres' users at Google two deserve special mention: William
+Rucklidge and James Roseborough. William was the first user of
+Ceres. He bravely took on the task of porting production code to an
+as-yet unproven optimization library, reporting bugs and helping fix
+them along the way. James is perhaps the most sophisticated user of
+Ceres at Google. He has reported and fixed bugs and helped evolve the
+API for the better.
+
+Since the initial release of Ceres, a number of people have
+contributed to Ceres by porting it to new platforms, reporting bugs,
+fixing bugs and adding new functionality. We acknowledge all of these
+contributions in the :ref:`chapter-version-history`.