Shawn Betts (sabetts@mail.sourceforge.net) Shawn is the original author and current maintainer for ratpoison. Sickened by the rat and the trend in window managers, he sat down one evening and pulled an all-nighter writing the first version of ratpoison. Ryan Yeske (rcyeske@vcn.bc.ca) Ryan began hacking on ratpoison so he could ssh his university by only pressing 3 keys. He also thinks that a keyboard driven window manager is the optimal user interface for penbased handheld computers.