Andrew,<br><br>If IA wants to host the FileFront stuff, why not just e-mail or contact them and let them know. I honestly don't know what IA would and would not take for archival.<br><br>I'll try and write up some notes from the con as well, but I need to do class prep for tomorrow as well, so it might be next weekend.<br>
<br>-D<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Andrew Armstrong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@aarmstrong.org">andrew@aarmstrong.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've got some notes to write up from GDC for the SIG, as well as a report I'll write on the status of the "State of preservation". This will be done next week, I'm still not back home yet :)<br>
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Feel free, anyone who wasn't able to attend GDC or who has and wants to comment, to bring up items to talk about here - I'll try and summarise my notes, but questions on "Did you discuss XXX" or "Can I suggest project YYY" or "Can I help since I joined the SIG from seeing your leaflet" or even just "Hi I'm new" are all welcome.<br>
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The main thing I want to bring to people's attention just now is there is some behind the scenes effort by Simon Carless, Jason Scott and including a few others to try and somehow get the 48 Terabytes of files off FileFront - check this page for the sad news that it is closing tomorrow! <a href="http://farewell.filefront.com/" target="_blank">http://farewell.filefront.com/</a><br>
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Hopefully someone will be able to get the files in some form so they can be uploaded to the Internet Archive. If anyone has a contact at FileFront it would be worth ringing them now and seeing perhaps if the files can be secured somehow (or ring up/contact Jason Scott to help his efforts).<br>
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Andrew<br>
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