[squeak-dev] [Offtopic] Documentary Project

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 18:04:52 UTC 2020


Hi Eric,

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 10:19 AM Eric Gade <eric.gade at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fellow Squeakers and Pharo-ers,
>
> Please forgive me if this message is inappropriate for the list. I am
> hoping you all will be interested in the following project.
>

I for one am extremely interested and excited to see the results.  I've
contributed.  All the best with continued fundraising.  Thanks for the
teaser!!


> For the past year and a half I have been working on a team that is
> developing a documentary
> <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/messagenotunderstood/message-not-understood/>
> on the history of personal computing. Our goal is to interview the very
> people who laid the foundations for personal computing while they are still
> with us, learning about their original visions and getting their take on
> the present. In this sense it is both an aspiring feature length
> documentary project but also an endeavor in oral history and posterity.
> Many of the themes we want to explore will be familiar to the members of
> this community (as will the title).
>
> Last fall we were able to shoot our first three interviews. We used these
> to make a short teaser <https://vimeo.com/429045920>, with the idea it
> could be used to raise funds for future rounds of interviews. That said, we
> are currently in the middle of a Kickstarter campaign
> <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/messagenotunderstood/message-not-understood/>
> to get the second round funded. If you are interested in learning more,
> feel free to reach out to me directly and to visit the film's campaign
> site
> <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/messagenotunderstood/message-not-understood/>
> and website <https://messagenotunderstood.com/>. We need all the
> promotion we can get!
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Eric
>
>

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best, Eliot
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