Dear SHOT and SIGCIS Folks, I'd like to recruit 4 or 5 of you to help collect oral histories at the Vintage Computer Festival-West <https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/> in Mountain View, CA on August 7 and 8. Most attendees and exhibitors will be hobbyists, hardware and software aficionados, and gamers. My particular interest is in the intersection of computing and education. Often this will be non-formal or informal learning but sometimes it may be school, college or on-the-job training. I want to explore with interviewees: 1. What they learned in their early contacts with computers 2. How what they have learned has impacted what they are doing now 3. Their vision of how computing (and communication) technologies can enhance learning in the future If you are interested in this project, please contact me directly whenever you have time. If you can help me out at the Festival the first weekend in August, please get in touch immediately. Experience in oral history is helpful but not necessary. We can teach each other. Thanks in advance, Liza lizaloop@loopcenter.org -- Liza Loop Executive Director, LO*OP Center, Inc. Guerneville, CA 95446 www.loopcenter.org 650 619 1099 (between 8 am and 10 pm Pacific time only please)