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Beyond Heroes! (part 2)

Computerworld Honors image
In case we are selected as the top winner out of the five Finalists for the Computerworld 21st Century Achievement Awards on June 6th, we’re supposed to have sent the Computerworld folks some elements (images and video) that represent what ibiblio does (and did as sunsite and metalab). Then they will make a little video montage out of it.
Last year’s winner, the MIT Open Courseware Project, ended up looking like this.

What would you say represents at least part of what we’ve been doing in the past dozen years? Send me links or post here pleeeeeze! Pointers for screen grabs, pictures of folks who’ve been involved, primo collections, other things?
Sunsite folks in 1994

7 Comments

  1. Ruby Sinreich

    Make sure you have a picture of balld with green hair. πŸ˜‰

  2. Ruby Sinreich

    Bwa ha ha ha ha!!!

    Not bad! But it’s not how I remember sunsite…

  3. Paul Jones

    Here are some links I sent in:

    http://www.ibiblio.org/ ibiblio home page – current
    http://ibiblio.org/index.old/index.html past several years home pages

    Some selections of historic home pages:
    http://ibiblio.org/index.old/unchtml.html 1994 home page
    http://ibiblio.org/index.old/welcome.html 1996 sunsite home page
    http://ibiblio.org/index.old/indexoles.html 1999 metalab home page
    http://ibiblio.org/index.old/index-prebob.html 2000 ibiblio home page
    http://ibiblio.org/index.old/index.may2002.html 2002 degree confluence
    featured
    http://ibiblio.org/index.old/index.dec2002.html 2002 creative commons
    featured
    http://ibiblio.org/index.old/index.feb2003.html 2002 Tibet and Nepal
    http://ibiblio.org/index.old/index.sept2003.html 2003 12 years of linux
    http://ibiblio.org/index.old/index.jan2004.html 2004 science collections
    http://ibiblio.org/index.old/index.oct2004.html 2004 12 years of ibiblio

    Some important pages/collections:
    http://ibiblio.org/luke/launchpad.html “can’t find this page” in many
    many languages
    http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/ Linux Documentation Project
    http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed Herbal Medicine
    http://ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden/php/search/ Roger McGuinn’s Folk Den
    http://docsouth.unc.edu/ Documenting the American South
    http://db.etree.org/ eTree.org
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ Project Gutenberg
    http://ibiblio.org/wm/ WebMuseum (since 1994)
    http://wxyc.org/about/first/ 10 years of Internet Radio see
    especially the Jeopardy answer screen

    People of ibiblio/metalab/sunsite
    http://ibiblio.org/pjones/Sungroup.gif meeting Elvis and Nixon in 1994
    http://ibiblio.org/wdg/ people of ibiblio

    Hosted by ibiblio logos in various formats:
    http://www.ibiblio.org/hosted/

    Videos of ibiblio speakers:
    http://www.ibiblio.org/speakers/

    Some images from SILS (including Adrianne and Donald jpgs)
    http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/sils/

  4. Jonathan Ah Kit

    Now, you *are* including Doctor Fun for a bit of light relief, right? Also, Henriette, this month’s agriculture highlight, is pretty funky. πŸ™‚

    I’d suggestion my own collections, of course, but ahead of it perhaps Project Gutenberg.

    IMHO. YMMV. etc. etc.

  5. Paul Jones

    The problem here is that each image is shown so briefly (see link above to MIT video). Text is almost invisible in this context or is at best only a visual element.
    Dr. Fun is too deep for such a context :->

  6. donald

    you have covered much above. i can help with more images.

    pictures of many of our old co-workers:
    http://www.ibiblio.org/wdg/pics/
    (must ask someone in sungroup to temporarily remove the index)

    pictures from our office renovation:
    http://www.ibiblio.org/dls/pics/office_move/
    number 3: what life would be like without us.
    and look at fred’s cute little haircut!

    may or may not capture the spirit of the project
    http://www.ibiblio.org/dls/pics/maintenance.jpg

    jim ray drinks responsibly (although i think i was mean and put this on wdg)
    http://www.ibiblio.org/dls/pics/jimbday_chug.jpg

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