ABOUT US

SharableThings Inc. is a Canadian corporation. Our head office is located at #630 - 943 West Broadway, Vancouver, B.C., V5Z 4E1. You may contact us by email at support@sharablethings.com.

http://sharablethings.com/ is our principal website. Our support site is http://support.sharablethings.com/. We do not currently offer telephone support but are considering doing so.

Our principals are Vince Hodges and Michael MacLeod.

Michael has been sharing things - office space, boats, a shed, surfboards, a compound miter saw -- for years. The SharableThings concept was a natural extension of this experience.

For 20+ years, Vince has been developing software. He has made SharableThings real. Vince provides consulting and development services through his web consulting business, Sourdough Labs Research and Development Corporation. Besides working on SharableThings, Vince is developing PennyMinder, a personal finances tracking webservice.

SharableThings is hosted by EngineYard. Its code resides in a Github repository. SharableThings was developed on the Ruby on Rails framework.

SharableThings has received voluntary and paid assistance, sympathetic audience, and other help from many people. Any list of such helpers is bound to be invidious for those it fails to mention but an incomplete list would include: John Montgomery, lawyer, of Palo Alto; Harry Max, web strategist and professional development coach, of Mountainview; James Topham, chartered accountant, of KPMG, Vancouver; Karyn Zuidinga, information architect, of Analytic Design Group Inc., Vancouver; Sinisa Nojkovic, information architect, Vancouver; Jess McMullin and Gene Smith, information architects, of nForm, Edmonton, Richard Dalton, information architect, Philadelphia; Donna Maurer, information architect, Maadmob, Canberra; Cynthia Berman, information architect, University of Washington, Seattle; Star Rosencrans, webmaster and information architect, Plotbot and University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Greg Bell and Derek Kehler, information architects and web developers, then of Analytic Design Group Inc., Vancouver; Todd Ariss, web application developer, and Sheri Bodnaruk, web designer, both of Pica Interactive, Vancouver; David Wedge, lawyer, of David Wedge Computer Law, Vancouver; Terry Drayton, entrepreneur, of Buccaneer Bay and Seattle; Djun Kim, web developer, of Duncan and Vancouver; Robert MacRae, tax lawyer, of Vancouver; Daniel Kogan, software developer and karate instructor, of Issaquah; Ryan Stocker, web developer, of Vancouver; Peter Moroney of Meeting Wizard, Vancouver; Doug Young, database designer, of Gibson's Landing; Steven McClain, hardware designer, of Burnaby; Dan O'Leary, instructor of celestial navigation and hardware designer, Richmond; Michael Goldberg, business professor, of Gabriola Island; Glenn Rogers, entrepreneur, of Laguna Beach; Becky MacLeod, marketing consultant, Vancouver; and Ivan Zendel, organizational psychologist, of Paradigm Solutions, Calgary.

Some of those named in the previous paragraph might be surprised to find their names listed, for their involvement with SharableThings may have been fleeting or even unknown to them. Some will never have heard the name "SharableThings", because the early development of SharableThings.com took place under a stealth name, and many people who signed non-disclosure agreements and contributed in ways they will never know were never actually told about the concept. Richard Dalton referred memorably to these, of whom he was one, as "planned innocents". Sometimes it was a kind gesture that has resulted in mention. For example, Donna Maurer (now Spencer) searched out and introduced Harry Max to us at the Information Architecture Summit in 2006 and through her seminar we met Karyn Zuidinga and Sinisa Nojkovic, early and marvellous supporters of the project. Some gave memorable insights, like Harry Max in his pithy comment that "[SharableThings] is a way to buy things." Some knew a great deal about the project. Others knew nothing but always seemed as though they would be willing to help if ever called upon. Our thanks to all of you, named and unnamed above.