[ih] Request for Assistance

[Dennis Jennings]

Hi,

For many of us around the world the "Landweber" meetings held between 
1982 and 1989 were an important source of information and personal 
contacts about academic networks and an important encouragement to get 
together in our own countries and to try to develop our own national or 
regional networks, and to connect to the Internet.

Larry is now looking to write some of the history around these meetings 
- formally the International Academic Networkshops (IANWs) - and is 
looking for your help.

Please see Larry's message below.

Many thanks
Dennis

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Dear Colleagues


THIS IS A REQUEST FOR YOUR HELP


I am working on an Internet history that will include a discussion of 
the roles of the International Academic NetWorkshops (1982-1989), the 
INET conferences (1991…) and the Developing CountriesWorkshops (1992…) 
in fostering the spread and growth of the global Internet during the 
1980s and 1990s.


This request pertains to the IANWs. I am trying to contact attendees of 
these Workshops to get their inputs.The attached attendee spreadsheet 
has mostly not been updated since the 1980s and most email addresses 
likely timed out decades ago. I also do not have a list of attendees for 
1982 and 1983.


1. If you attended an IANW please send me (larry.landweber at gmail.com) 
your current contact info and the workshops you attended. If you have 
photos from the meetings or other photos of attendees from the 1980s, 
please send.Please also send any anecdotes, thoughts or comments 
regarding the workshops that you would like to share.

2. Please forward this note to colleagues who attended but may not have 
received it.

3. I have a fairly complete collection of submitted documents from 
1985-89 but do not have those from 1982, 1983, 1984.If you still have 
them, please scan and send.

4. Last, please send me information on attendees who have passed away or 
who otherwise are not able to respond.


Thanks for your help.

Larry Landweber, Larry.landweber at gmail.com


PS An example of an anecdote:

Jennings, Fuchs and Landweber attended the 1984 IANW. Fuchs and 
Landweber knew that CSNET was looking for an Executive Director and that 
NSF was looking for a Networking Program Director. Fuchs knew Jennings 
from EARN but Landweber met him for the first time. After, observing him 
and several discussions, they decided to recommend him for both jobs and 
made calls to those leading the searches. Jennings accepted the NSF 
position, and the rest is history!

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