[game_preservation] GDC Report Coming Soon + FileFront shutting down

[Henry Lowood]

Andrew,

I am in touch with the people I know at IA about this.  Simon, too, I'm 
sure.  At the moment, like me, they do not have enough information to 
understand the options for formal action or a project.   It's important 
that at some point someone summarize where things are and what sorts of 
files would be involved in the rescue action.

Henry

Devin Monnens wrote:

> Andrew,

>

> 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.

>

> 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.

>

> -D

>

> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Andrew Armstrong 

> <andrew at aarmstrong.org <mailto:andrew at aarmstrong.org>> wrote:

>

>     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 :)

>

>     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.

>

>     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! http://farewell.filefront.com/

>

>     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).

>

>     Andrew

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