Thank you all for your interest in the Bootstrap Institute's website and
its future. A special thanks goes to my kind hosts and the participants
in the various meetings held during the May 20-30 visit to Silicon
Valley by my grandson, Eric, and me.
I did prepare a detailed letter about the meetings shortly after
returning to Lakefield, Québec, but upon rereading it I'll spare you the
agony. I did go ahead and prepared a set of starter pages for an
e-journal that I provisionally named "Engelbart in Context" (or
"Context" for short). These will soon be accessible from the home page,
www.bootstrap.org . In the meantime you may take a sneak preview at
www.bootstrap.org/context/
An editorial policy has still to be properly written out, nevertheless I
think you will get the drift from what is there even if it is only a
tiny beginning with only one major article on the front page.
This e-journal is not a periodical. The publishing pace is not set by
deadlines, but by value of content (and editorial resources available).
And it is best perceived as a test run because to really produce what I
have in mind takes a fair amount of talented people.
Observe that the "purple number" assignments is still a thorny issue
(almost a bone in the throat). I really need to have a clearer insight
into the workings of Doug's Augment and how identification of document
elements and versioning, etc. will continue within an OHS setting before
settling this issue. I am inclined to believe that Doug's view of
documents is not quite the same as an editor's view of an e-journal's
front page. Differing views tend to converge inside the e-journal, see
the repository. For a better insight of where we are heading, you may
have a look at the repository of my old Fleabyte, which had been running
for some time whenI switched to go with Doug, see
www.fleabyte.org/contents.html . In fact Context uses the Fleabyte
experience.
I hope that with your interest and help we can produce an e-journal that
will serve to inform and educate a more general public of what computing
can be like, in the interest of individuals, of their work, and of
society as a whole.
Looking forward to your critical reactions and continuing goodwill,
Regards to all,
Henry
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