No i won't be in EASA 2008, but I don't think you really need me. Our young architecture firm just 'sponsors' the site (webhosting + domain). I don't think the plan is that I/we work on the site, except maybe managing some settings.

Also I think we should try to find digitized/digital movies and pictures. Johannes Br. (DE) has quite a selection including the movie made in the Train easa in Scandinavia (1997.easa.tk) (!!). On my personal site there are several links to old websites or pictures from past EASA's. See easa.jelkkruk.com. I think it was 2001-2002 that digital/digitized pictures, personal websites etc came into being. From earlier years there is hardly anything to find on the net. Possibly there is more materials that we need to find in the informal circuit.

Also I think it is a nice plan to make all (old) EASA websites available from easa.tk as well. For example in this format: 2001.easa.tk. From 2001-2008 still most of the years are available ('01; '02; '03; '05; '07; '08) and only France (2004) and Hungary (2006) are missing.

They used to exist and maybe can be restored via new NC's. Possibly we can find some of the older original websites from this cd-rom that Jurrien mentioned. If I remember well, it was a result partly from the scanning of a part of the archive done by the croats in 2001/2002 + a tiny bit digital material from the time that internet and computers weren't that common yet.

However most of the archive might not be too spectacular, and maybe it is a better plan to just start documenting the EASA's that happen from now on and from the times that there is still material available. It can be a selection of images, movies, paraplu's (umbrella's) and workshop results. It doesn't need to be that hard.

i think there is enough material to fill a nice website and older and newer materal can be added later. I am very curious for the new design...


Jelk

PS: from my past EASA's (2001-2006) I never seen any publication, such as for this magazine that we paid for in Switzerland, the Danish or any other. Do they exist or did they never come into being?

there's a poster from time to time announcing that it'll be out soon, finally (remaining of the guys that are annauncing the end of the world from time to time, soon, finally). They've been working on something for 3 years. Since the texts were mainly written 3 years ago, it's hard to say what excactly that something is. We'll see, maybe.

I was just asking, didn't expect you to work on anything. the link to the website is a good idea. we'll see during the easa how we collect what kind of data.

well.. hope to be in Letterfrack (again), if anyone cares .. ;) and things i can tribute, are a dina4 journal of 1997,
a vhs tape of the same year, the cd's of the archive, ranging between 1981 and 2001 (though they should be spread around).
and even though a lot has been collected in the archives
of both Delft and Copenhagen, there is still plenty of paperwork around, so hopefully not all is lost, yet obviously tracking the remaining parts will be tedious.
there is still talk about a secret room full of easa's history, predating everything before 2003,
watch this place ;)

...there was also quite some scanning done in greece and it wasn't a joke that there's a lot of stuff out there in the big, wide world. google makes it simple to find it. i just recieved a few final reports from a former swiss nc. (with the huge effort of writing 2 short mails).

conor: if that's a fundamental statement, that we don't want a archive (next step is to get rid of this missleading word), then this is a point (on which i disagree, though). but the shit, that happened is not reason enough to throw the work of two INCM- and one easa-workshop and the effort of the webdesigners down the drain, in respect of all the stuff we still have. That's at least my opinion.

quote jurnalism:/
The archive went from 1981 to about 2001 and the number of papers per year varied from stacks of about a centimeter to about 10cm - a full Leitz ordner that is:/

the CD's were originally scanned in by Croatians for 200? (not sure!?) and they were put onto CD by a Dutch guy, and then copied by myself (with a bit of delay) for INCM in Berlin (or Bornholm ?)
most of them still in my ( and about 50 more people Europe-wide ) possession.. happy to pass them on anytime.

how long does it take to finish this website archive???
A rough guess is that this work could be done by four people in a week. Its been 8 months since the INCM in Moscow and to be honest f*ck all has been done! and I can't see an end in sight either.

hey Johannes, I think this CD is the same as the one Jurrien is mentioning, as I gave it to him, after I received it from Richard (former NL-NC). I think there is two versions of this CD. The CD is made accessible with some kind of webpage navigation, organized by year. One of them works perfect in Internet Explorer, the second in all browsers. However, it is also possible to just browse through it with your windows explorer or macintosh finder (or whatever they use).

hey jelk ... jupp, that's the one, the Croatian made a first scan of the paperworks which is a total of 5 CD's and afair Richard pimped it onto a single CD.

if i happen to be at the bar, or basically,
if i happen to be in Letterfrack, my laptop/mobile
will be happy to oblige the need for a webcam.

and maybe..just maybe, i can get some _stable_
webspace related to another internet-based art form,
where payment won't really be an issue.
i will not be held responsible on this one though. :)

So i got that fortunatly wrong. good luck with what ever you're working on!