The Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative, ATON, has a constantly growing number of patrons. New statistics have been released emphasizing the continued success of the ATON website. Approximately 200,000 documents have been digitally delivered to half the countries in the world. The Epics (Dastan) which date back 2,200 years are the most popular of the collection. Patrons have used 10,000 internet service points to access the website. The site is organized in mutually supporting sections including music, historical documentation, explanations of the narratives, and anthropological and ethnographic materials. Of the three similar programs worldwide ATON is the only collection digitized and accessible on the web. There are currently around 200 links to the ATON website from various other sites around the world. Academic and professional organizations with a link include such prestigious institutions as The U.S. Library of Congress and the British Library.

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Brigitte Zarzer of Telepolis did a short Interview with Eben Moglen (Professor of Law at the Columbia University in New York and Board Member of the Free Software Foundation). On 5th of June Mr. Moglen will join the Open Cultures-Conference in Vienna and deliver a speech called: "Free Software, Free Culture: After the dotCommunist Manifesto". In the Telepolis-Interview he said: "Free software provides the all-important layer that determines how the network around us functions in a form that users, individually and collectively, can modify and share. This means that the technology of the network serves its users, and evolves to meet their needs, rather than being controlled by those who manipulate them. [...] Free software means having a network that is conceived in freedom, of the people, by the people, and for the people." The interview is available in english and german. In this context I have to point you to Chris Kelty's (a member of Ethno::log :o) article Free Software/Free Science. Some current developments as a side-note: The city of Munich, Germany just recently decided (Spiegel-article in german) to change the Operating System of its ICT-infrastructure. More than 14.000 computers owned by the city's administration will get rid of MS-Windows and instead will run on Linux in the near future. And there's a healthy chance of whole Germany's administration switching to Linux, too. via Telepolis, First Monday, and Spiegel online.

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