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+<h1 id="credits">Credit where credit is due</h1>
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+<dl>
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+<dt id="thanks">Which people made WhatDoTheyKnow?</dt>
+<dd>Oh, nearly everyone (and <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/volunteertasks">maybe you too</a>)! <a href="http://www.yrtk.org">Heather Brook</a> 
+(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/mar/29/houseofcommons.michaelmartin?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">vampy!</a>) has
+been pushing the idea of a UK FOI archive for years now. Both Phil Rodgers and 
+<a href="http://www.flourish.org/blog/">Francis Irving</a>
+entered it in a mySociety competition for ideas for public interest websites to build. 
+<a href="http://www.mysociety.org/2006/09/27/the-mysociety-call-for-proposals-the-winner-and-runners-up/">It won</a>, 
+and then Chris Lightfoot (<a href="http://mk.ucant.org/archives/000129.html">RIP :(</a>) 
+thought up the wheeze of intercepting email responses to requests and
+automatically publishing them.  Tom Steinberg managed to get the cash to pay for the site out of 
+<a href="http://www.jrrt.org.uk/jrsstct.htm">a dead chocolate mogul</a>, so
+that Francis Irving, Angie Ahl, Tommy Martin, Louise Crow, Matthew Somerville
+and Tom Steinberg could do the complex mixture of design and coding to build
+what you see today. Thanks particularly to Julian Todd (<a
+href="http://www.freesteel.co.uk/wpblog/">great blog!</a>), Francis Davey, and
+Etienne Pollard for using the site early on and giving feedback (and/or legal
+advice!), and also to all our other users and testers.  Lots of
+people have been looking up FOI email addresses, and a few volunteering to 
+administrate the site - most especially Adam McGreggor, Alex Skene and John
+Cross. Finally we couldn't do any of this without those
+<a href="http://www.ukcod.org.uk/UKCOD_Trustees">crazy people</a> who volunteer,
+amongst many other things, to do the accounts and fill in our VAT return.
+You're all stars.
+</dd>
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+</dl>
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