Organizational Partners

Software Preservation Network

We joined SPN in 2021 as an “Implementation Sponsor”.

• SPN membership of (mainly academic and non-profit) organizations
• We might partner with one or more of their members
• Membership is $4k/year
• Hosts Emulation as a Service infrastructure

Universities:

University of Alberta

• Professor Eric Kaltman, Software History Futures and Technologies
• Graduate students:
  • Eleanor Young
  • Abhik Hasnain

LFG (Lexical Functional Grammar) group

• Set up to allow tax-deductable donations for student travel to conferences
• LFG is a current Medley application maintained by Ron Kaplan

Computer History Museum

• PARC gave CHM a “donation” of files from PARC backups, including lisp sources. This looks like an important trove of Information.
• Hosts Smalltalk Zoo
• Offered to record history interview

Internet Archive

We have no formal relationship with IA, but we would be happy to have one.

• MAME

Software Heritage

• UNESCO sponsored activity to collect and archive software
• Longer term focus claims are on reproducibility of software artifacts