Contact
Contact was conceived by Jim Funaro in 1979, and the first formal conference was held in 1983. Almost two dozen more events have followed. This is a semiofficial archive, intended to display photos, schedules, and other material from each of these events, plus relevant web links.
Contact is now listed in Wikipedia.
Jim Funaro's personal account:
Here's the official poster from Contact II, held in Santa Cruz in May of 1984.
These are scans of the program from Contact II. The GIFs include the original advertisments and everything.
Scans of the program handout from Contact IV, held in Rancho Cordova, CA.
Program handout from Contact V, also in Rancho Cordova.
Contact IX, held in Palo Alto, CA.
Here are John Bray's SimSETI project records, also from Contact IX.
Contact X, in 1993, held in Santa Clara, CA.
Contact XI, in 1994, also in Santa Clara.
Contact XII, in 1995, held in Milpitas, Ca.
Contact XIII, in 1996, also in Milpitas, Ca.
Scans from Contact XIV, in 1997, held in Sunnyvale, Ca.
Program handout from Contact XV, back in in Santa Clara .
Here are Bruce Damer's photos from Contact XVII, held in 2000.
Here's a very special photo from Contact XVIII, held in 2001.
This is the basic program data from several conferences. There are no 'original' web pages going back to 1992, for obvious reasons. Many of these documents were first posted on the Cabrillo College server in 1998.
| Contact 92 | Contact 93 | Contact 94 |
| Contact 95 | Contact 96 | Contact 97 |
| Contact 98 | Contact 99 |
Contributions of personal photographs and mementos are welcome. Obviously, they need
to be scanned or otherwise in web-presentable form. (If needed, I can handle that
part.) Paul Carlson may be reached via, cuebon /at/ aol
/dot/ com
