[SPG_Active_Members] CHM History of Lisp web site noted on Hacker News

[Paul McJones]

Hacker News (http://news.ycombinator.com/) is a Digg-style news site 
maintained by Y Combinator, a venture capital firm cofounded by Lisp 
veteran Paul Graham (http://www.paulgraham.com/). An item appeared today 
linking to http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP, and a 
commenter noted:

    I am speechless.

    Not because of LISP, but because this history preservation effort
    really deserves all support we can give them. Unfortunately the
    mailing list and volunteer forms are 404'ed. The contact form works
    just fine.

I checked, and fixed a link that was broken when we transitioned from 
SCC to SPG and community.computerhistory.org to 
softwarepreservation.org. However the various forms don't seem to work 
for me. So I posted another comment on Hacker News:

    I'm the editor of the History of Lisp web site at the Computer
    History Museum. I'm sorry about the 404s, but if you email me, I
    will be happy to answer questions, and help you get involved.

    Paul McJones (paul at mcjones dot org)

Of course, my email address is at the top of the History of Lisp web 
page, but people seem shy about contacting the editor!

The reason I'm sending this to the entire SCC_active list is to assure 
folks there is activity in SPG land: I continue to update the Fortran 
and Lisp sites, and to get inquiries regarding both; I have no idea how 
much traffic these web pages are getting (I tried to activate them for 
Google Analytics, but can't seem to do it without Plone magic).

Mike Powell, if you get this message, perhaps we could discuss how to 
improve the "Contact Us" page.


Paul
 



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