In the help and about section of the Second Life viewer you will find the credits, lots of names:
Now how you get on this list I have no idea, I once read it was from logging into the beta grid. The Lindens, well that’s obvious and the translators, who do brilliant work, that’s obvious too. However the middle section, the Opensource contributions, I don’t know how you get in there. So, for a bit of fun and frolics, I’ve sorted these lists alphabetically.
There are names of long left, but not forgotten Lindens, well except for the ones we’ve never heard of, which will be a few I’d imagine, but they all made contributions. Then there are amongst the opensource list, long left avatars too, although some super awesome avatars are in there, I’m still confused as to how they get there.
Let’s also not forget that Second Life is brought to us by basically everyone who enters the world and that many people make valuable contributions whom aren’t listed in the credits, I’m just doing this for a bit of fun. I compiled the list using copy and paste and then transposing the results, so apologies if my mousework missed some in the cut.
The lists are under the cut…. of course if you’ve came straight here from a link, there is no cut!