[SPG_Active_Members] Your letter of 29th July

[Tim Shoppa]

Henry Gladney <hgladney at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is because I am disappointed that CHM some time ago quit credible
> interest in preserving software, which I regard as of commensurate
> importance to the areas that it is investing in.  This happened
> notwithstanding the fact that there are clear ways of achieving this
> relatively inexpensively and the efforts of the now-suspended volunteer
> Software Preservation Group.

A couple years ago the SPG at CHM sponsored "The Attic and the Parlor",
which made it clear to me that they appreciate the loose and broad
coalition of individuals and corporations and institutions that
preserve software. 

I also got to hear some of the difficulties (esp. legal ones) and triumphs
(CHM's then-new software curator's results) of doing this in the CHM
framework.

Henry, it seems you've always pushed hard for formalizing the software
collection process through the CHM. I've come to the realization that the base
of interesting software "in the wild" is tremendously huge and often
extremely specialized. I think a loose coalition of software archives
and archivists, both professional and non-professional, is the right solution
at this point.

Tim.