[game_preservation] Presentation : Association MO5.COM, french non-profit organisation dedicated to the digital memory

[samurai at mo5.com]

Hi everyone !

Glad to be here :)
I'm Philippe Dubois, founder of the non-profit french association MO5.COM. I was
contacted by Andrew Amstrong so, here i am to speak about our organisation,
MO5.COM :

What we are doing : we're the main French resource for collectors,
specialists and historians about computer and videogame history.
Our knowledge and ability to preserve and display this cultural
heritage to the public are very well known in Europe.

We're focusing on:
- Acquiring and preserving the largest possible number of items about
computing, videogaming and any more recent digital media. Our
collections house an estimated 30.000 items, including computers,
videogame systems, software, books, magazines, peripherals, and so on.
- Taking part in a large number of exhibits and museum projects, where
we can guide the public to experience the source of the computing
and gaming industry as we know it today.

The main goal of our non-profit-making organization is to found what
could be the first French or European national museum of the
digital era.

To help us achieve this goal, we communicate on our websites and in
the community as a whole to collect the largest number of related
items, which includes systems (computers, videogames, digital
devices), software, source codes, development kits, peripherals,
books, magazines, and so on. Everything that is old enough
(before 2002) or rare (such as press kits) is interesting to us.
We're currently completing the purchase of a spacious place near
Paris where we will try to store all of our collections so that we
can work on them and perform what we do best, i.e. preserving them.

I'm in contact with Vincent Joguin, chief leader of the KEEP project, since a
couple of years, so please Andreas, keep us informed with the meeting in Paris
you were talking about please :)

Sincerely yours,
Philippe Dubois, Association MO5.COM, President