Jason Scott to keynote KansasFest 2009 convention

[kgagne <kgagne@gamebits.net>]

KANSAS CITY, MO - December 18, 2008 - Technology historian and
documentarian Jason Scott will be the keynote speaker at KansasFest
2009, the world's only Apple II computer convention.  Scott, whose
documentary about dial-up bulletin board systems was presented at
KansasFest 2007, brings with him a comprehensive insight into the
Apple II and its role in the development of the personal computer.

"I've been wanting to attend KansasFest for years," said Scott.  "That
there's still an Apple II conference going on after all this time is
just wild."

Scott is the creator and webmaster of TEXTFILES.COM, a Web site
dedicated to collecting the files and related materials from the era
of the dial-up bulletin board systems. This Web site, originally built
from files he collected as a BBS user in his early teens, has expanded
to many gigabytes of data and now receives thousands of visitors a
day.  Inspired to create "the ultimate BBS list" from the hundreds of
lists on his Web site, he suddenly started receiving dozens of stories
from BBS users and operators who found their old BBSes listed.
Recognizing a missing piece in the story of computers, Scott traveled
roughly 25,000 miles to record 250 hours of footage, from which he
created the five-and-a-half-hour final product, "BBS: The
Documentary".  Having completed this project in 2005, Scott has since
begun work on "Get Lamp", a new documentary about text adventures, as
well as "Arcade", a film about coin-operated pinball and video game
arcades.

Scott has been a featured speaker at events such as hacker conference
DEF CON; the Internet meme conference ROFLCon; and the Vintage
Computer Festival. His cat, Sockington, currently has more than 4,000
followers on microblogging site Twitter, where he's been nominated for
a Shorty Award for best content producer in the Humor category.

KansasFest 2009, the 20th annual Apple II conference, is set for July
21st through July 26th at Rockhurst University in Kansas City,
Missouri.  KansasFest was originally hosted by Resource Central and
has been brought to you by the KFest Committee since 1995.  Any and
all Apple II and Macintosh users, fans, and friends are invited to
attend this year's "summer camp for geeks."  Registration details will
be announced on the KansasFest Web site in early 2009.  For photos,
schedules, and presentations from past year's events, please visit the
event's official Web site at http://www.kansasfest.org/

CONTACT:
KansasFest 2009
kfest-help@kfest.org
http://www.kansasfest.org/
http://twitter.com/kansasfest/