The UI for this is infuriating. Interview older contributors first. Seek BIPoC and women, too. Be sure to interview people in manufacturing, too, not just top people. Hire Anthropologists and other true ethnographers to do this work.https://twitter.com/lorenterveen/status/1312034834827673601 …
Thanks for the feedback concerning the UI -- it was built with MS Forms, which I have not used before, so it's been a learning experience for me. (1) We already have interviewed older contributors, and agree this is imperative. (2) Also agree about BIPOC and women. (3) ...
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All interviews are being done by Jeffrey Yost (http://www.cbi.umn.edu/about/yost.html ) a leading historian of computing who may have done more oral histories of computing people than anyone else in the world and has written multiple books in this area.
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As long as he can accurately represent the whole culture, that's great! Having worked here for decades, and done my fieldwork here for my dissertation, I can say that there are so many pieces and people to consider, that I hope you get many perspectives.
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