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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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Dick Fugett, who scanned in many excerpt pages for reviews; proofread,
- and stole hours we needed from his family when time was tight.
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- 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.
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- (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).
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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