[sudo-discuss] Fwd: Project Update #25: MONDO 2000: An Open Source History by R.U. Sirius

[Scott Edmonds]

Hi All,
Below is info about a current project to archive something important and dear to me. Before there was Wired and the couch surfing interns who worked for Mondo and left to start Wired-- there was Mondo 2000. I remember reading an issue of URB magazine and noticing Mondo 2000 on the newsstand. Things every Black nerd needed to see at an early age was in Mondo, like: virtual reality, tech pioneers and mavericks, and even an article about Pamela Z. 

To meet and share ideas with these folks was amazing. Names that should mean something if you believe in the real power of what we all strive to do. > > Captain Crunch, R.U. Sirius, Queen Mu, William Gibson, Mark Pesce, and more. 

If you're interested in helping to digitize or what not, get in touch with them. 

Best,

Scott R. Edmonds
Mobile: 1-510-928-3469

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> Date: October 27, 2015 at 5:49:53 PM EDT
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> New Plan for completion
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> Hi folks!
> Hope this finds you well. I’m under migraine (for real. 3 weeks). Health shit really has been getting in my way.
> Anyway, well, my hope that another very professional writer would join me in completing the Mondo 2000 section of the book appears to have not worked out. I gave it an extra month which is why you all have not heard from me sooner.
> My final plan to finish/crowdsource the book ought to work, if I can gather up all my skills as an editor at the end of the process. I’m going to push hard for speedy delivery. The plan should allow for that.
> Before I share the plan, this seems to be a good place to pick up volunteers to help… even though I haven’t heard back from the previous volunteers.
> This is the first place I’m sharing this new plan, except with a few folks personally. I’ll be looking elsewhere for volunteers too. You folks have been exceptionally kind. Thought you might like to participate.
> So first of all, the folks who said they would open my ancient discs so I could extract the content? We were going to do this, I think, in September. I’ve lost track of you and haven’t heard back. I have a note that makes me think it may have been Bryce Lynch who was going to help with that. Hoping this will shake the tree.
> Secondly, I’m looking for someone to scan all the issue of Mondo 2000 and a bunch of archival stuff … press clippings, ad brochures ad infintum. I’d need it done fast if possible and would prefer someone in the SF Bay Area. Even just the issues would be awesome.
> This this would be tremendously helpful and would improve on both the timing and quality, but if it doesn’t happen, I will work around it.
> Finally, if you have an urge to write something for the book… or to interview a Mondo 2000 participant who interests you, I’m opening it up to “outsiders.” See The Plan, below…
> The Plan
> I plan to take a lot of material from the magazine itself and weave the story telling around it. But also, add commentary geared towards the ideas etc. in the magazine. Even more fun, I think… I am inviting people who wrote for the magazine, a few other favored writers and the patient folks who contributed via Kickstarter to rummage through any magazines they may have and write about it. React to an issue or an article or just let something jar a memory and tell a story. 
> It’s my hope to also have the issues all scanned, but in the meantime, if you have that resource (back issues) it’d be great if folks would get going. 
>  Naturally, I can’t guarantee that every bit of writing will get into the book, but it will get onto the website. Pre-Mondo issues of Reality Hackers and High Frontiers and a few archival bits are at Internet Archives…  https://archive.org/details/mondohistory ... but I want to discourage too much focus on the old issues. I’ve got a shitload of writing already about the early years. If you want to participate and you have actual MONDO 2000 magazines, please use those. If I can’t get the magazine scanned soon (or at all) and if I can’t get my old discs cracked open, I will live with that. I’ll be setting a deadline for the end of January 2016 to collect materials. Thank you Thank you Thank you for your patience and support … and I hope a few of you might want to help in one way or another.
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