RedPost/Kit: Launch Day: Special Thanks: And now celebratory beer
I can take some credit for Kit, but not all. In today’s world, a small project like kit involved multiple people on multiple continents Special thanks to the following people and organizations who helped make RedPost/Kit possible:
- MOR/ryde International, specifically Ryan Holmes (sales) and Amaan Hundal (engineer)
- David Glick, programmer extraordinaire
- Jon Glick, up and coming programmer extraordinaire
- James Hiebert, another programmer extraordinaire
- Daniel Palmer for his hot Kit photos
- Eric Carl for his hot web design
- Cassie Greer & Carrie Lee for their modeling skills and Dave Kendall for his special skills
- Dave Pottinger
- Goshen Community Bank, specifically Al Borchelt who made the financing possible (there are huge benefits to banking local, I’ll blog about it sometime)
- Adam Price of Northern Box Comp. who helped design a sweet, sturdy Kit Shipper
- Kevin Laughlin of Key Pack Industries
- Gene Crusie of MapleNet Wireless
- John Ross Buschert, physics prof at Goshen College
- Paul Housholder for his ideas and insight into the A/V market
- John Hall True Value
- companies with great sales & service, like PC Connection and ULINE
- UPS
- Taiwan/China for their cheap, quality electronics (please don’t go to war guys, it would hurt us more than it would hurt you)
- Jim Lecinski of Google who inspired some changes in the way I thought about Kit
- John Andrews & Robert Shingledecker and all the contributors to DamnSmallLinux
the creators/maintainers of OSCommerce, Mediawiki, Help Center Live, Apache/PHP/Mysql, and all the others open source designers who make companies like mine possible - my mom, who had her stomach cut open to bring me into this world
- the rest of my extended family who let me exploit their image for commercial gain (not without complaints)
- my housemates/tenant for putting up with me not mowing the lawn for long periods of time
- everyone who reads and comments on this blog
I’m going to drink a beer.
