I'm Patrick McConvell of Northern Territory University
Australia, mentionedin Roy Iutzi-Mitchell's posting
about Hypercard. I've just received Roy's package of
Hypercard disks which we hope to demonstrate together
with Australian stuff at a workshop at Batchelor College
on June 3. The Katherine Regional Aboriginal Language
Centre has agreed to exchange disks with Roy and similar
people/organisations and I hope we might get a similar
agreement from other Aboriginal organisations and
individuals at the workshop. I tend to agree with Roy
that money and heavy restrictions should be kept out of
it as none of this is "commercially" saleable but there
is concern in Australia (and I'm sure elsewhere) about
Aboriginal intellectual property rights as well as those
of other individuals, so this needs to be thought
through a bit.
I'm also in touch with a few others in North America and
I'm interested in the proposed move to CD-ROM talked
about in a recent posting. If anyone has a discussion
paper or similar on these issues I'd be glad if you
could send it to me in time for the workshop (June 3
i.e. airmail) - samplers of Hypercard programs also
gratefully received.
Nick Thieberger of the Australian Institute of
Aboriginal and Islander Studies, Canberra, is also
working on such things on a national basis, and
may the best focus if an organised international network
is to be set up. He is also running a workshop on
computer applications for Aboriginal languages in
Melbourne in July (aiatsis@peg.pegasus.oz.au).
My address is
Patrick McConvell
Anthropology
NT University
Casuarina NT 0811
Australia