Digitizing the Keith Laumer Archive

We have a fair number of new members, so it's probably the right time for both an introduction and a bi-annual report (after all, Keith would have turned a centenarian this year...).

With immense help from the family and estate of Keith Laumer, who triple-handedly provided the place, time, coffee, sandwiches, electricity and the original documents themselves, we have (optimistically, more than) halfway progressed towards a navigable digital personal archive of Keith's.

Some of our findings are true gems. We discovered a few short sketches (a parable, a poem, a writing course plan...) that have never been published, as well as longer work that's never seen the light of day either. We now have a better idea of Keith's "social graph", including some of the people he dedicated his books to. And we have ourselves learned invaluable lessons in the field of digital preservation -- lessons we'll gladly share.

The link for the meeting is https://zoom.us/j/5027419686?pwd=M3pHUXY0d2MveTk5dUVGbGVSdzE4Zz09
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+1 669 900 6833 (meeting ID) 5027419686# (password) 979481

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