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+\chapter{Acknowledgments}
+Many persons are contributing to the \faust project, by providing code for the compiler, architecture files, libraries, examples, documentation, scripts, bug reports, ideas, etc. I would like in particular to thank:
+
+\begin{itemize}
+
+\item[-]Fons Adriaensen
+\item[-]Tiziano Bole
+\item[-]Thomas Charbonnel
+\item[-]Damien Cramet
+\item[-]\'Etienne Gaudrin
+\item[-]Albert Gr\"af
+\item[-]Stefan Kersten
+\item[-]Victor Lazzarini
+\item[-]Matthieu Leberre
+\item[-]Mathieu Leroi
+\item[-]Kjetil Matheussen
+\item[-]R\'emy Muller
+\item[-]Nicolas Scaringella
+\item[-]Stephen Sinclair
+\item[-]Travis Skare
+\item[-]Julius Smith
+\end{itemize}
+
+
+Many developments of the \faust project are now made within the \astree project (ANR 2008 CORD 003 02). I would like to thank my \astree's partners:
+\begin{itemize}
+\item[-]J\'er\^ome Barth\'elemy (\ircam)
+\item[-]Alain Bonardi (\ircam)
+\item[-]Raffaele Ciavarella (\ircam)
+\item[-]Pierre Jouvelot (\'Ecole des Mines/ParisTech)
+\item[-]Laurent Pottier (U. Saint-Etienne)
+\end{itemize}
+as well as my colleagues at \textsc{Grame}, in particular : Dominique Fober, St\'ephane Letz and Karim Barkati.
+
+
+I would like also to thank for their financial support:
+\begin{itemize}
+\item[-]the French Ministry of Culture
+\item[-]the Rh\^one-Alpes Region
+\item[-]the City of Lyon
+\item[-]the French National Research Agency (\textsc{Anr})
+\end{itemize}
+
+