Click on the faces to find out about the people behind the Global Challenge website.

Andy Bridden Andy was responsible for managing the technical delivery of the website and the fax-on-demand system, in addition to the fax update software (This converts the results to fax format). He also developed the internet tools for the BT Race Results System to allow this to receive the latest results. Homepage : http://www.bong.demon.co.uk/ Email : briddear@boat.bt.com Hester Brierley Hester has been reponsible for liaising with the Challenge Business, the Race Office and many others to fill the site with up-to-date, informative and engaging content. Now that the race has finished, she has gone off to Kenya for a well-earned rest. Jasper Ditton Jasper is a 19 year old student who worked at BT during his gap year. He has been responsible for maintaining and updating the website in the months running up to the finish, and has added animated graphics, VBScript and Java to the features which the site boasts. Homepage : http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/3423/ Email : jazzmand@hotmail.com Martin Duffy Martin was responsible for all the weather maps and text overlays. Having left the group he is now working on Wireplay. Email : duffymj@boat.bt.com Emma Lythgoe Emma was involved with producing the initial story board for the site and she also liaised with Foresight (the graphics company used) and Hester to keep the website content fresh. Every now and then she likes to get out her maracas and hope over to Spain, but that's another story. Email : lythgoe@boat.bt.com Maurice McQuitty Maurice is the group leader of Andy, Jasper, Emma, Iain and Chris. His role has been to make sure everything runs smoothly and the bumps get ironed out. He was also directly responsible for organising the link between the yachts and RHQ and processing the raw locations to produce the statistical information on each yacht. Email : mcquitmp@boat.bt.com Iain Richardson Iain, who has just return from his wedding in Iceland, designed the software which reads the yacht data and dynamically creates the results section. In addition he co-ordinated the VRML results system. Email : richarid@boat.bt.com Chris Taylor Chris worked on the Global Challenge project at the very beginning, designing the Race Results System. This is used extensively at Race HQ and collects the yacht data for display on the website. Email : taylorcg@boat.bt.com We would also like to thank the many other people involved in the site including : Robin Haynes for articles & interviews, Sue Roberts for her VRML work, Foresight for graphics, and the race followers for using it.