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            <li>Contents</li>
            <li><a>About Us</a></li>
            <li><a>Contact</a></li>
            <li><a>People</a></li>
            <li><a>Special Thanks</a></li>
            <li><a>The Code</a></li>
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        <h3>About Us</h3>
        <p>
            Local Ground allows you to create and share your own annotated online maps.
            You can draw on existing maps, add pictures, audio, video and other data,
            and share with your friends, family and colleagues.
        </p>

        <h3>Contact</h3>
        <p>
            We are always interested in new ideas for Local Ground, and for new ways to
            collaborate with teachers, students, non-profit organizations and other
            mappers everywhere!
        </p>
        <p>
            Please send us email at info@localground.org, or call us at +1-510-859-3003.
        </p>

        <h3>People</h3>
        <p>
            Local Ground is a project that started at the UC Berkeley
            <a href="http://ischool.berkeley.edu/">School of Information</a>.
        </p>

        <h4>Current Team</h4>
        <ul class="contributors">
            <li>Sarah Van Wart<br>
            Developer, Researcher, and Manager
            </li>
            <li>Tapan Parikh<br>
            Developer, Researcher, and Manager
            </li>
            <li>Kathryn Lanouette<br>
            Researcher
            </li>
            <li>John McGrath<br>Web Developer</li>
            <li>Riley Flynn<br>Web Developer</li>
            <li>Cynthia Mah<br>Web Developer</li>
            <li>Karin Goh<br>Web Developer Intern</li>
        </ul>
        
        <h4>Past Contributors</h4>
        <ul class="contributors">
            <li>Ellen Van Wyk<br>UX/UI, Visual Designer, User Researcher</li>
            <li>Zack McHardy<br>Web Developer</li>
            <li>Lucio Lopez<br>Web Developer Intern</li>
            <li>Vibhore Vardhan<br>Sys Admin</li>
            <li>Seongtaek Lim<br>Web Developer</li>
            <li>Meena Natarajan<br>UX/UI, Researcher</li>
            <li>Anna Keune<br>Designer, Documentation, User Researcher</li>
            <li>Christy McCain<br>Database, Sys Admin, Image Processing</li>
            <li>Joyce Tsai<br>UX/UI, Visual Designer, User Researcher. Founding Member</li>
        </ul>
        
        <h3>Special Thanks</h3>
        <p>
            Local Ground would like to acknowledge the following people, who helped
            us develop our system by contributing ideas, and time to the project:
        </p>
        <ul>
            <li>Antwi Akom, Aekta Shah, Aaron Nakai, Sabaa Shoraka, and I-SEEED.</li>
            <li>Tony Marks-Block, Kevin Cuff, and the
                East Bay Academy for Young Scientists
                <a href="http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/ays/">EBAYS</a> at the
                Lawrence Hall of Science
            </li>
            <li>Deb McKoy, Ariel Bierbaum, and the
            <a href="http://citiesandschools.berkeley.edu/">Center for Cities &amp; Schools</a></li>
            <li>April Surwalsky and the Martin Luther King Jr. Youth Council</li>
            <li>Mr. Gutierriez's 2009-2010 U.S. History class @ Kennedy High School</li>
            
            <li>Michael Manoochehri and Nate Gandomi</li>
        </ul>
        
        <h3>The Code</h3>
        <p>
            Local Ground has used image processing ideas and code from 
            <a href="http://walking-papers.org/">Walking Papers</a>,
            <a href="http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/">OpenCV</a>,
            <a href="http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/">PIL</a>, and
            <a href="http://www.gimp.org/">GIMP</a>, and runs on
            GeoDjango + PostgreSQL. Local Ground is under active development,
            and is <a href="https://github.com/LocalGround/localground">Open Source.</a>
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