David L Smith
Roseanne Gare recruited David Smith as one of several programmers with educational backgrounds to develop software titles for Jacaranda.
Geoff Body
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Paul Holland
Holland has extensive experience in managing creative industries organisations in the private and public sector. He has been a Board Chair, Company Director, Chief Executive Officer and General Manager, Executive Producer, Project Manager, Interactive Media Designer, Software Developer, Consultant, Lecturer and Teacher.
Jacaranda Software
Jacaranda is the Australian imprint of U.S. publishing company, Wiley. In the early 1980s, the company was run by an “inspirational leader”, John Collins. Collins decided that there might be a place for materials for the computers that were then beginning to appear in schools.
Queensland. Dept. of Education. Production and Publishing Services Branch
Like most other state Education Departments in the 1980s, the Queensland Department of Education had a software development unit. This unit employed the individuals who created the game “Pieces of Eight”.