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168: The Whole Earth Learning Disc Project

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3: Some of the Credits    (hank)      Mon, Aug 10, '87  (15:30)


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 A first fly at Thanks to Staff:
 Kathleen O'Neill, who designed and drew maps, buttons, backgrounds for
 each of the sections, maps for sections and clusters of articles, and
 sequences of pictures.
 
 James Donnelly, who ran the MacVision scanner and Sony camera and MacPlus
 to get pictures into the production -- book covers, pages from books
 that we review.
 
 Don Ryan, who set up the scanner camera where he usually sets up his
 Polaroid-backed copy camera, got the process running for a few days, then
 went home to build walls for his new house.
 
 Dick Fugett, who scanned in many excerpt pages for reviews; proofread,
 and stole hours we needed from his family when time was tight.
 
 David Burnor, who used the Hypertalk scaffold to chop up the old typesetting
 files from the Catalog (EWEC) and put them into stacks for Hypercard to 
 work with; and who also proofread late into several nights.
 
 (James Donnelly, again -- who typeset most of the whole Essential Whole
 EArth Catalog in the first place, and kept the files in good enough shape
 that we could move most of them over into this new form).
 
 Robin Ramsey, Elaine Richards, Pat Oren, and whoever else had a few
 spare hours also ran the Hypertalk scaffold breaking up typesetting files 
 for the project -- sometimes eating a weekend or a late night in doing so.
 
 Keith Jordan and I were around for most of the work with the project;
 besides pick and shovel work of all varieties, he did organizing and I
 did fire and damage control and preventive maintenance.
 
 Editor Kevin Kelly, along with Fabrice Florin and Stewart Brand, and
 other folks from Apple and elsewhere, came up with the notion and the
 commitment to the idea.  Kevin figured out what we could hope to produce
 out of the vast amount of material in the Essential Whole Earth Catalog,
 and figured out how to cut and shuffle the cards.
 
 What will be shown at MacWorld?  Have your Essential Whole Earth Catalog
 at hand -- because that's the book we're started on.  Yes, there's a
 Health section -- and Land Use, Whole Systems, Politics, Learning,
 Household, Community, Craft, Nomadics.  The most polished sections at
 this date are Communications and Media.  An UNDER CONSTRUCTION graphic --
 the same Donnelly cartoon people got with requests for stuff to review for
 EWEC -- pops up when people go into a less-finished section, but it's all
 there to be browsed around in.  There's a button that shows a short
 animation; buttons you click if you want to hear the song of one of the
 birds in the Peterson Guide, or an excerpt from one of the Books on Tape, or
 a few bars of music from one of the records we excerped from the Down Home
 Music Catalog.
 
 It's what the Whole Earth Catalog started out to be -- a card file that you
 can call up and find out what's best.