The core planning group in the Chicago area started out with Ron and Liana Winsauer, Dale Sulak, Dwayne Forsyth, Dave Ifversen, Angela Karash, Pete and Wendy Richardson, Kris and Michelle Southerland, Betsey Langan, Karen Nagel, Jackie Powers, and Scot and Kelley Trombly-Freytag. There has also been help and advice from many other people, both in the Chicago area and scattered around the country (like Andy and Mary Cruickshank Peed in the U.P., among others).