{"id":549,"date":"2005-06-03T15:01:27","date_gmt":"2005-06-03T20:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=549"},"modified":"2005-06-03T15:46:30","modified_gmt":"2005-06-03T20:46:30","slug":"ibiblio-in-30-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/ibiblio-in-30-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"ibiblio in 30 Seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we are announced as winners of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwheroes.org\/home.asp\">the Computerworld 21st Century Achievement Award<\/a>, I&#8217;m supposed  to give a 30 second thank you speech. In theory, this is simple. But in practice, we have a few problems. First, as a college professor I never speak for less than 50 minutes so we&#8217;re cutting by a factor of 100.  Next, we&#8217;re covering over 12 years of sunsite\/metalab\/ibiblio in which many many good folks helped out even if they were here for a very brief time. Third, we have over 1500 contributors; many of these folks could have won the Award entirely on their own. Fourth, we&#8217;ve had great partners who gave and still give us hardware, software and support &#8212; most notably over time Sun Microsystems and The Center for the Public Domain and IBM.<br \/>\nCan I say all of that and be amusing too?<br \/>\nYes I asked for an extension (only good in the case of our winning of course) and got an additional second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we are announced as winners of the Computerworld 21st Century Achievement Award, I&#8217;m supposed to give a 30 second thank you speech. In theory, this is simple. But in practice, we have a few problems. First, as a college professor I never speak for less than 50 minutes so we&#8217;re cutting by a factor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}