Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

[Paul Jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu>]

Internetworking friends,
I thought I'd pass on the brief version of the 2004 of ibiblio for your 
pleasure and amusement.

Thanks for being a part of a great year for ibiblio. Here are a few landmarks
from 2004. We could have done none of them without your support.

Grants and contracts: We received contracts for streaming video in support 
of the NASA education site http://nasa.ibiblio.org We also received an 
IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) grant in support of 
digitizing films for the Folkstreams project http://folkstreams.net We're 
also up for a much needed server refresh via an IBM SUR Grant which will 
be reported in January.

Radio on the net: We celebrated the 10th anniversary of Internet radio 
with WXYC http://www.wxyc.org/about/first/ with music, panels and 
interviews as well as a free CD for download (from ibiblio of course). We 
now stream 6 stations and will likely add two more early in 2005. We also 
participated in the first IPv6 continuous streaming of radio on Internet2 
with WXYC and WCPE.

Speakers and visitors: ibiblio visitors and speakers for 2004 included 
Cory Doctorow, Doc Searls, John Hood (of John Locke Foundation), NC 
Senator Eric Reeves, bloggers Eric Muller and Corey Dauber, and others. 
Many ibiblio speakings are available for watching at: 
http://www.ibiblio.org/speakers/ includes the WXYC panel

We've collected our press information including recent articles on ibiblio 
as well as technical information in an online press kit 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/presskit/ One important new item there is 
Jessamyn West's article from OCLC Systems and Services: International 
Digital Library Perspectives. Vol. 20. Number 2 (2004) "Free as in Tibet: 
ibiblio's cultural cultivation and community creation"

We have two maturing free software projects. Lyceum is an open source 
blogsphere http://lyceum.ibiblio.org and Osprey is a peer-to-peer enabled 
content distribution system using Bittorrent http://osprey.ibiblio.org An 
very early version of Osprey is already in use at 
http://torrent.ibiblio.org/ where it first was used for the WXYC CD 
downloads.

Bandwidth: We still have to shape our bandwidth use and have with very 
good results. Even so we regularly use 300 - 400 Mbs. That's a 100% 
increase from last year. We're looking forward to an increase in 2005.

Storage: We've just added a NetApp filer which will provide highspeed file 
access that we desperately need, This is an additional 5+ terabyes of 
storage.

Management: We have a new CIO for UNC, Dan Reed 
http://its.unc.edu/its_vc/, who comes to us from UIUC and NCSA. He's very 
supportive of ibiblio and I expect we'll have some opportunities arising 
from his RENCI projects soon http://renci.org/ We also have a new Dean of 
Information and Library Science, Jose-Maria Grifiths. 
http://www.ils.unc.edu/ils/releases/RELEASE04_deangriffiths.html The 
search for a new Dean of Journalism and Mass Communication is underway as 
I type with campus visits by the finalists scheduled for very early 2005.

Staff: John Reuning and Fred Stutzman are our two full time employees, 
sysdamins and project leaders. Nancy Wilson, Josh Myer, Sean Slovney, Max 
Gustashaw, Patrick Herron, TJ Ward, Bret Dougherty and Adi Unnithan are 
with us as student employees. http://ibiblio.org/wdg/ for our bios. Sean 
and Max have just graduated. Nancy is expecting her first child in 
January.

Conferences: John and Nancy presented at the Libre Software conference in 
Bordeaux in the spring. Paul and Fred were among the select invitees to 
Tim O'Reilly's FOO Camp. Fred was a presenter at the American Library 
Association's Information Commons Summit. Paul was among the invitees to 
the Wired/Creative Commons' benefit concert by Gilberto Gil and David 
Byrne. Paul and Dr. Helen Tibbo presented at the Imaging Science and 
Technology conference. Paul was a speaker at IBM University Day and among 
the 3 UNC faculty invited to meet with selected members of the IBM 
Academy. Fred was a panelist on the Future of Music in the Triangle. Paul 
spoke to visiting Jordanian journalists.

Other honors and milestones: Contributor Jessamyn West of Librarian.net 
was an offical blogger for the Democratic National Convention and was 
featured in many news stories. Her blog of the DNC is 
http://www.librarian.net/dnc Contributor Pamela Jones (and company) at 
Groklaw http://www.groklaw.net/ won the Linux Journal's Editors' Choice 
Award for Best Non-Technical or Community site. 
http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=756

Collections: we continue to add important collections of all kinds. 
http://ibiblio.org/collection/collection.php?second=n lists the most 
recent from video tutorials to health care to poetry festivals to software 
to Tibetan culture. No slowing down there.


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                             Paul Jones
 "Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation." Alasdair Gray
                http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/
  pjones AT ibiblio.org   voice: (919) 962-7600     fax: (919) 962-8071
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