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Re: Open Meeting reference moved
At 2:14 PM -0600 1997-02-03, Howard R. Stearns wrote:
>The paper:
> The Open Meeting: A Web-Based System for Conferencing and
>Collaboration
>at
> http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/open-meeting/paper.html
>
>references the
> Open Meeting on the National Performance Review
>at
> http://www.npr.gov/OpenMeet/openmeet.htm
>
>This last link is no longer valid. A naive search of the npr.gov site
>did not show any clues to its new whereabouts.
>
>1. Does anyone have a reference to a new location?
NPR just took it down some time back. You can look at the proxy cache of the
open meeting at:
http://www4.ai.mit.edu/npr/user/root.html
The intelligence behind is no longer there as we
redployed the lisp machine that provided the smarts, but
you can see what the event was like.
>
>2. Do the authors of the paper (JCM and Roger Hurwitz) know the link has
>moved?
Yes, perhaps roger will update the pointers on the MIT version to
ones that work.
>
>3. I had heard that many of the original AI.MIT implemented sites have
>been turned over to private corporations for maintainance, and that they
>got rid of everything that they couldn't do without Lisp. Did they git
>rid of this?
I think a number of the staffers involved in the Open Meeting fancied
themselves Web gurus after the event and went into business. None of them,
including LLNL, ever understood any of the lisp technology, or for that
matter, the design concepts. This was clearly demonstrated by Open Meeting
2 in May, 1995. I would expect them to have pursued mainstream technical
approaches, focusing more on organizational questions than technical innovation.
As far as I know, we have the only copy of the 1994 open meeting proper, where
Federal workers actually discussed and the VP contributed. Others may be
caretaking the gif wrappers.
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