A lot of people have advanced the work, some unwittingly, some by merely standing and waiting (and waiting,) some actively:

Directions, Concepts and Influences.

Colin McCormack
Co-Founder. Obsessing, coding, obsessing some more.
Phillipe Hébrais
Co-Founder. Turned vague rumblings about Spatial Locality of Reference into a breakthrough, designed and coded QVMM unbelievably quickly and well. Contributed his experience from other experimental language developments to the design of this toolkit.
Jordan B. Baker
Enthusiasm and Chaos
Jeremy FitzHardinge
Crucial assistance with Elf and mmap (he wrote it, after all.)
Norman Nunley, Jr (aka Duke of URL)
language, consultant, informant, good advice.
Li2CO3
Visual Artist in residence.
Andrew Morton
Gentle enquiries. Sterling debugging.
Martin Schwenke
Some things that won't become obvious for a while.
Ryan Daum
Suggesting we look carefully at Python. Needling us until we released.
Nick Sweeney
Countless conversations, numberless insights.
Bill Drury
The space in which we converse (xao.com 7777)
Greg Hudson
His epochal coldmud.
Hans Reiser
His epochal reiserfs.
Guido von Rossum
His orthogonal Python API.
Brian Eno
Oblique Strategies and Soundtrack
Linux Australia
WebHosting - Thank you Linux Australia.
LinuxBox
WebHosting - Thank you LinuxBox.
The Institute of Official Cheer
Raw material for our fearless corporate fridge logo. Not that we want to encourage an outbreak of kitsch on the web, but this is really good kitsch.

Credits
That Oscar acceptance speech in full.

Rationale
Why ColdStore? An explanation of what we're up to.

Detail
The nitty-gritty: an explanation of ColdStore's design, what it does, and what it might be used for.

Future
Plans
Get it, compile it, run it, tweak it. Lather, rinse, repeat: all with the fresh smell of GNU.

Future
Plans
We think that ColdStore has potential. Here's what's in the offing: from the nearly feasible to the bright blue sky. You can probably help us out here.

Links
Though it sometimes feels that way, we're not the only ones thinking about these things. A few references to articles on object persistence and all that gubbins.

Contacts
Praise the visionaries behind this thing; alternatively, berate the guilty parties.