# Community

The PowerToys team is extremely grateful to have the support of an amazing active community.  The work you do is incredibly important.  PowerToys wouldn’t be near what it is without your help filing bugs, updating documentation, guiding the design, or writing features.  We want to say thanks and to recognize your work.  This is a living document dedicated to highlighting the high impact community members and their contributions.

Names are in alphabetical order based on first name.

## High impact community members

### [@Niels9001](https://github.com/niels9001/) - [Niels Laute](https://nielslaute.com/)

Niels has helped drive large sums of our update toward a new [consistent and modern UX](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/891). This includes the [launcher work](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/44) and [icon design](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/1118).

### [@riverar](https://github.com/riverar) - [Rafael Rivera](https://withinrafael.com/)

Rafael has helped do the [upgrade from CppWinRT 1.x to 2.0](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/1907).  He directly provided feedback to the CppWinRT team for bugs from this migration as well.

## Open source projects

As PowerToys creates new utilities, some will be based off existing technology. We'll continue to do our best to contribute back to these projects but their efforts were the base of some of our projects. We want to be sure their work is directly recognized.

### [@jjw24](https://github.com/jjw24/) - Jeremy Wu

Their fork of Wox was the base of PowerToys Run.

### [WoX Launcher](https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox/)

Initial base of jjw24's fork, which makes it the base of PowerToys Run.

## Microsoft community members

We would like to also directly call out some extremely helpful Microsoft employees that have directly contributed to PowerToys. This isn't their day job and was work they did out of passion. We want to say thank you and recognize your work.

### [@betsegaw](https://github.com/betsegaw/) - [Betsegaw Tadele](http://www.dreamsofameaningfullife.com/)

Window Walker, inside PowerToys Run, is from Beta.  

### [@TheMrJukes](https://github.com/TheMrJukes/) - Bret Anderson

The base of FancyZones and a lot of performance adjustments are from the hard work of Bret.

### [@bricelam](https://github.com/bricelam/) - [Brice Lambson](https://bricelam.net/)

Image Resizer is from Brice.

### [@chrdavis](https://github.com/chrdavis/) - Chris Davis

PowerRename is from Chris's SmartRename.
