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+# RetroDECK ‐ Story & Philosophy
+
+# How RetroDECK was born?
+Let's take a step back.
+
+RetroDECK was born on March 4th 2022 in Kyoto, Japan, with the name of [351EDECK](https://imgur.com/a/tGC9ZGO) because I am also one of the founding members of 351ELEC, now [AmberELEC](https://amberelec.org/).
+What I wanted to do was to "port" 351ELEC to the Steam Deck, but instead of doing a custom firmware to flash, doing it as an application that could be launched from Steam.
+Eventually, after talking to the other team members, we decided that we didn't want to support another platform such as Steam Deck, so I decided to continue the project on my own, renaming it to RetroDECK.
+
+Back then I had many options on how to create 351EDECK, such as a bash script, appimage and flatpak.
+In the beginning I opted for a simple shell script, in fact RetroDECK/351EDECK v0.1a existed as a mere shell script.
+However I had bad feedbacks from the community because someone was feeling unsafe to give my script the root privileges so evaluating the Steam Deck use case I felt like it was not the right direction to take, the people was not feeling comfortable to give the sudo to a random script downloaded from the internet, so they asked to packetize it in some way.
+
+Valve suggests the flatpak technology to port the applications on Steam Deck so, I decided to follow their guidelines, and I created the RetroDECK that you know today, starting from a Manjaro virtual machine as a development environment because I didn't have a Steam Deck yet.
+
+-Xargon
+
+# RetroDECK Philosophy
+Emulation is a global multi-generational effort of development that has lasted for decades, motivated by the pure love for video game preservation for current and future generations. RetroDECK depends on the constant development of all our dependencies (the emulators, front-end, various assets, etc…). It would be unfair to both the hard work that has been done in those projects and to the entire open-source community if we said otherwise or tried to take credit, conceal, or obscure it for our own gain.
+
+We always strive to have the best possible relationship with the teams that generously provide and develop the third-party software we are depending on now and in the future. Everyone that works on RetroDECK is immensely grateful for the global collective effort and work that has been done. Without these projects and those passionate people RetroDECK would not be possible.
+
+We also want to add a word for the developers of the third-party projects: Please feel free to reach out to us, talk to us for any reason and share your ideas. We value your feedback and suggestions, and our door is always open for collaboration and improvements. You are the backbone of our project, and we appreciate your contributions.
+
+You can find more about our dependencies on the wiki and how to donate to them or us under the donations page on this wiki.
+

wiki-rtd/docs/wiki_about/team-credits.md

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+# Credits & The Team
+
+This is the page where we try to introduce the team and thank everyone who have contributed to the project so far.<br>
+If you feel you have contributed to the project but lacks mention, please contact us on discord! <br>
+
+# The Team
+
+## Community Management
+
+### [Lazorne](https://github.com/Lazorne)
+Community management/outreach, testing, documentation, feature suggestions, does controllers and some design.
+
+<details><summary>.</summary>
+Internal meme lord and leader of the "Nordic Pizza Heresy Cult". Instigator of the internal pizza war and "Banana Warlock".
+</details>
+
+## Developers
+
+### [XargonWan](https://github.com/XargonWan)
+RetroDECK project founder and also one of the founding members of [AmberELEC](https://amberelec.org/).
+
+<details><summary>.</summary>
+General of the "Italian Pizza Legion" in the internal pizza war.
+</details>
+
+### [IceNine451](https://github.com/icenine451)
+Creator of the `RetroDECK configurator`, the `RetroDECK Framework` and various cool things.
+
+<details><summary>.</summary>
+Freedom loving leader of the "Murican Cheese Crust Patriots" in the internal pizza war.
+</details>
+
+### [Lx32](https://github.com/Lx32)
+Develops various new features, functions and tools.
+
+
+<details><summary>.</summary>
+1st Commander of the "Italian Pizza Legion" in the internal pizza war.
+</details>
+
+
+### WallK
+Checks GODOT and other things.
+
+
+<details><summary>.</summary>
+Pizza vigilante
+</details>
+
+## Testers
+
+### [dottormac](https://github.com/redeemer666)
+Does bleeding edge cooker testing (lives in the danger zone), some feature suggestions and design.
+
+<details><summary>.</summary>
+2nd Commander of the "Italian Pizza Legion" in the internal pizza war (might be a spy for the Nordic Cult or Muricans).
+</details>
+
+# Collaborators
+
+## The ES-DE Group
+
+### [Leon Styhre](https://gitlab.com/leonstyhre)
+Maker of EmulationStation Desktop Edition
+
+### [anthonycaccese](https://github.com/anthonycaccese/)
+Theme creator for ES-DE and [AmberELEC](https://amberelec.org/)
+
+### [Weestuarty](https://github.com/Weestuarty)
+Theme creator for ES-DE
+
+## Others
+
+### [Niroku](https://github.com/Hew-ux)
+Helps with community management, is also part of [Batocera](https://batocera.org/)
+
+
+### [Zurdi](https://github.com/zurdi15)
+Creator of RomM and other projects.
+
+# Additional credits
+
+### [lilbud](https://github.com/lilbud)
+Have done some themes for ES-DE.
+
+### [RavenKilit](https://github.com/RavenKilit)
+Did some code and testning, contributed to [AmberELEC](https://amberelec.org/)
+
+### [MorGuux](https://github.com/MorGuux)
+Made the RetroDECK steamdb graphics for the old logo
+
+### [Pixelguin](https://github.com/Pixelguin)
+Made the new logo and steamdb graphics
+
+### teotwaki
+Generous cloud hosting sponsor
+
+### [Gabeboii](https://github.com/gabeeeboii)
+Webmaster
+
+### Draco
+Server Administration
+
+### [ItzSelenux](https://github.com/ItzSelenux)
+Maker of [pixelitos](https://github.com/ItzSelenux/pixelitos-icon-theme)
+
+# Special Thanks
+ We want give special thanks to:
+
+- Our Patreons and doners that keeps the build servers running and provide feedback.
+
+- All related emulation, frontend and software projects that we are dependent on.
+
+- All people that have put both time and money into emulation projects.
+
+- All the users who help others with support, guidance and good spirit.
+
+- All the users who help with testing and reporting issues.
+
+- All the community creators who creates various art and assets for the community.
+
+You are all the ones that makes this project possible.

wiki-rtd/mkdocs.yml

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   - About RetroDECK:
     - What is RetroDECK?: wiki_about/what-is-retrodeck.md
     - What is included?: wiki_about/what-is-included.md
-    - Visions & Goals: wiki_about/visions-and-goals.md
     - Beta Period: wiki_about/beta-period.md
+    - Visions & Goals: wiki_about/visions-and-goals.md
+    - Story & Philosophy: wiki_about/story-philosophy.md
+    - The Team & Credits: wiki_about/team-credits.md
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