[muhblah]

I'm pretty sure this encoder is written by a Google employee based in Zurich, like me (but I don't work for Google) ;D

[piquadrat]

Also, it's in line with Brotli[1] and Gipfeli[2], other compression libraries/formats from Google bearing names of Swiss pastries.

[1]: https://github.com/google/brotli

[2]: https://github.com/google/gipfeli

[youngtaff]

Someone predicted this is Sept 2015

"The names of Google compressors sound so funny: Zopfli, Brotli, ... the next ones will be called Guetzli, Brunsli, Kägi-Fretli, Schoggli oder Läckerli "

http://encode.ru/threads/2313-Brotli?p=44950&viewfull=1#post...

[d33]

Well the list of contributors is no secret:

https://github.com/google/guetzli/graphs/contributors