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   <h1>The Interlisp Revival</h1>
 </header>
 
+<p>Welcome to the start of a new chapter in computing! We're a group of software developers making the Medley Interlisp system available for use on modern computer systems.</p>
+
+<p>The Medley system was created at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). PARC was the cradle of the modern graphical user interface and its design thinking continued with the development of Medley Interlisp, an extensible graphical operating system with nearly limitless possibilities for customization. Whatever the task, using Medley you can design a custom workflow to help accomplish it.</p>
+
+<p>Interlisp was first released by Xerox and distributed commercially until its development ceased in the 1990s. Until 2009 it survived only in the hands of a few of the original developers, but now this classic software system is running again on your favorite operating system. This project is more than a trip down memory lane: our mission is to expand the scope of what Medley can do, fulfilling its promise of software tools limited only by the user's imagination. Dive in and explore the language, the tools, and the myriad applications, experiments, and playful creations that were crafted in and for Interlisp.</p>
+
+<p>Feeling confused by the jargon? Don't worry, we've got you covered. <a href="medley/project/glossary">Check out our glossary</a> to learn the terms associated with our project.</p>
+
+<p>Most software in this project is licensed under the terms of the <a href="https://github.com/Interlisp/medley/blob/master/LICENSE">MIT license</a>.</p>
+
+<!--
 <p>Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) is remembered mainly as the birthplace of the modern graphical user interface, influencing the development of the graphical operating systems we know today. At the same time PARC did pioneering work in the field of AI using a language called Interlisp. This powerful programmable language became the basis of Medley, a graphical software environment that carried on the design thinking of PARC's original Alto interface.</p>
 
 <p>Medley's life as a commercial product ended in the 1990s, and until 2009 its source code only remained in the hands of the development team. Now the system is running again on modern computer systems, thanks to the combined efforts of original developers and interested newcomers. Our goal is to revive Interlisp in language, environment and spirit through the Medley Interlisp Project.</p>
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 <p><a href="medley/project/faqs">Our FAQs page</a> addresses other common queries about the project.</p>
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+
+{{% blocks/feature icon="fas fa-feather" title="History of Interlisp" %}}
+ <p>
+   The history of Interlisp and Medley development, and applications written in
+   and for it.
+ </p>
+
+<div class="mx-auto">
+   <a class="btn btn-lg btn-danger mr-3 mb-4" href="{{< relref "history" >}}">
+     History <i class="fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-right ml-2"></i>
+   </a>
+ </div>
+ 
+{{% /blocks/feature %}}
+      
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 <p>
- Be a part of preserving a seminal piece of software showcasing an early 
- Human-Computer interaction platform.
+  Who we are, what we've done, our plans for the future, ways you can
+  get involved.
 </p>
 <div class="mx-auto">
 	<a class="btn btn-lg btn-danger mr-3 mb-4" href="{{< relref "project" >}}">
 		Get Involved <i class="fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-right ml-2"></i>
 	</a>
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+
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 <p>
-  Follow instructions for running Medley  on a variety of platforms. You will 
-  see pointers to documents, directions for running Medley online, installing 
-  Medley, and reporting bugs.
+  How to run Medley "in the cloud" (on our servers), install
+  it on popular platforms or build it for new ones.
 </p>
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+	<a class="btn btn-lg btn-danger mr-3 mb-4" href="{{< relref "software/install-and-run" >}}">
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- {{% blocks/feature icon="fas fa-feather" title="History of Interlisp" %}}
- <p>
-  Discover the history of Interlisp including research materials and an 
-  extensive bibliography.
- </p>
-
-<div class="mx-auto">
-   <a class="btn btn-lg btn-danger mr-3 mb-4" href="{{< relref "history" >}}">
-     History <i class="fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-right ml-2"></i>
-   </a>
- </div>
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content/en/project/credits.md

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 title: Credits
 weight: 80
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-         
 
-We owe the existence of Medley Interlisp to over one hundred contributors. These include people working at Xerox, other companies, university students and staff, as well as software enthusiasts from around the world. We don't have the means to find and credit them all so the listing here is by no means complete. With that said, these are some of the people who have helped make the Medley Interlisp project what it is:
-
-
-### Medley Revival Inaugural Team
-
-Larry Masinter, Rob Kaplan, Nick Briggs, Frank Halasz, Herb Jellinek, Steve Kaisler, Wayne Marci, Paul McJones, Bruce Mitchener, John Cowan, Arun Welch, Michele Denber, Blake McBride, Abe Jellinek, Bill Stumbo
-
-### Newcomers to the Team
-
-Matt Heffron, Eric Kaltman, Paolo Amoroso
-
-For information about past contributors who are no longer with us, go to [In Memoriam](/medley/history/in-memoriam).
-
-
-## Contributor Metrics
-
-See these Github pages for real-time summaries of people's contributions to Interlisp software development.
-
-<a href="https://github.com/Interlisp/medley/graphs/contributors">Medley repository contributors</a>
-
-<a href="https://github.com/Interlisp/maiko/graphs/contributors">Maiko repository contributors</a>
+Interlisp was a joint effort of many people -- perhaps a hundred -- from its initial beginnings through its heyday to its virtual disappearance. There are more than we can enumerate or name. There were contributions by employees of BBN, Xerox, and Fuji Xerox and later, employees of Envos and Venue. There are initials in the source code with date of last edit, but who wrote what is sometimes a mystery.
+
+<!-- We do have a list of those we remember who are no longer with us [In Memoriam](/medley/history/in-memoriam). -->
+
+The Medley Interlisp Project had its origin in an effort by Nick Briggs and Ron Kaplan to get the virtual machine emulator (Maiko) to run on a newer MacOS; the goal was to let Ron continue to use it for linguistics research. Joined by Larry Masinter in 2020, the project evolved. Starting with a mailing list, private GitLab repository, DropBox folder, occasional emails. The project has grown and evolved, and continues to gain momentum. The modern contributors are also difficult to enumerate, but a list of contributors should include at least these names:
+
+<div class="credits-table">
+  <table>
+    <tr>
+      <td><a href="https://github.com/AbeJellinek">Abe Jellinek</a></td>
+      <td><a href="https://github.com/Anzus">Arun Welch</a></td>
+      <td><a href="https://github.com/ecraven">ecraven</a></td>
+      <td><a href="https://github.com/ekaltman">Eric Kaltman</a></td>
+      <td><a href="https://github.com/fghalasz">Frank Halasz</a></td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <td><a href="https://github.com/hjellinek">Herb Jellinek</a></td>
+      <td><a href="https://github.com/masinter">Larry Masinter</a></td>
+      <td><a href="https://github.com/MattHeffron">Matt Heffron</a></td>
+      <td><a href="https://github.com/nbriggs">Nick Briggs</a></td>
+      <td><a href="https://github.com/pamoroso">Paolo Amoroso</a></td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <td><a href="https://github.com/phantomics">Andrew Sengul</a></td>
+      <td><a href="https://github.com/pictographer">John D. Corbett</a></td>
+      <td><a href="https://github.com/pmcjones">Paul McJones</a></td>
+      <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Kaplan">Ron Kaplan</a></td>
+      <td><a href="https://github.com/skaisler1">Steve Kaisler</a></td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <td><a href="https://github.com/stumbo">Bill Stumbo</a></td>
+      <td><a href="https://github.com/waywardmonkeys">Bruce Mitchener</a></td>
+      <td>Wayne Marci</td>
+      <td></td>
+      <td></td>
+    </tr>
+  </table>
+</div>
+
+Another way of looking at contributors is to look at statistics for the [Medley](https://github.com/Interlisp/medley/graphs/contributors), [Maiko](https://github.com/Interlisp/maiko/graphs/contributors), [online](https::/github.com/Interlisp/online/graphs/contributors), and [website](https://github.com/Interlisp/Interlisp/Interlisp.github.io/graphs/contributors) repos.

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+
+This section contains information on using the Medley Interlisp software. Check out [Install and Run](./install-and-run) to learn how to set Medley up on your computer. You can also visit [Access Medley Online](./access-online) to learn how to access Medley running on our servers using your web browser.

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-title: Using Interlisp Online
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+title: Access Medley Online
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+---
+title: Install and Run
+weight: 10
+type: docs
+---
+
+You can install Medley on a variety of different computer systems:
+
+### Download and install from a release
+  * [Running on Linux](./running-on-linux)
+    * Packages for .deb distributions and source to build for others
+  * [Running on Mac](./running-on-mac)
+  * [Running on Windows](./running-on-win)
+    * For Windows 10 or 11 with WSL1 or WSL2
+
+It's important to understand that the Medley and the Interlisp software it's built on are the same for any computer it runs on. What's different is Maiko, the virtual machine emulator that hosts Interlisp on a given computer system. It works a bit like the Java Virtual Machine -- and in fact Herb Jellinek, a member of the Interlisp team, went on to contribute to the Java project at Sun.
+
+If you'd like to run Medley on another OS or machine architecture like BSD or Android, you can (re)build Maiko from source and then run in a release or even build your own images (sysouts).
+
+<!-- (Where does the link to the build topics fit into these pages?) -->
+
+See the [Medley README](https://github.com/Interlisp/medley) and [Maiko README](https://github.com/Interlisp/maiko) files at their repository pages for more details.