[SPG_Active_Members] Your letter of 29th July

[Paul McJones]

Richard,

Whatever water has passed under the bridge, I have a proposal for you: 
join me and any other interested volunteers as informal but effective 
organizers and curators of Stoyan's collection at CHM.  Decide how it 
relates to CHM's existing volunteer-driven collection of Lisp source 
code and historic documents 
(http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP).  Use it as the core 
of the definitive world collection of Lisp materials, soliciting 
additional materials from other Lisp veterans such as JonL White, Guy 
Steele, Jeff Barnett, Alan Bawden and undoubtedly many more.

Lisp is one of the oldest programming languages and has had profound 
influence on many subsequent languages. You, Steele, and Stoyan are the 
preeminent historians of the language. Please accept this invitation to 
lead the creation of the definitive Lisp history collection at the 
Computer History Museum. History will reward you.


Paul McJones

P.S. You may ask by what authority I make this proposal. My old boss Bob 
Taylor always said, "Just do it."



Richard P. Gabriel wrote:
> At 8:27 AM -0400 8/23/09, Tim Shoppa wrote:
>> "Richard P. Gabriel" <rpg at dreamsongs.com> wrote:
>>>  In her emails to me, Ms Jabloner hinted that the CHM would be able to
>>>  find capable local volunteers to handle the material, and she
>>>  apparently made no effort to investigate the merit of having two
>>>  world-class volunteers at her disposal.
>>
>> I think sometimes the CHM and other museum institutions are
>> not paying enough attention to the ability of folks around the
>> world to work on what they out of habit consider a local project.
>
> She continued to ignore offers of help even after I explained I live 
> 10 miles from the CHM. It wasn't distance that was the problem.
>
>             -rpg-
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