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About the Anniversary

I'm hoping to be still here for trAce's 10th Anniversary: which will be a long time in cyberspace!

Looking to the future, I would like to see I would like to see trAce doing internationally what it is starting to do in the UK.
I would like to see trAce finding funding for local courses throughout the world connected with writers and the internet and then acting as a host for those groups so that local members can keeep in touch for mutual support. trAce might also experiment with non-funded paying courses that would fulfil the samer purpose
I would suggest that individuals might be willing to pay to 20 dollars annually to have a private local conference site hosted by trAce where they can provide mutual support for each other and at the same time be eligible for further technical advice from trAce.
I can think of present trAce members in India, Canada, USA, Cumbria, Australia, New Zealand and Argentina who might be willing to tutor such courses and provide information on likely funding sources and computer sites.
If I were to study the trAce membership closely I am sure there would be many other countries trAce could cover.

I don't know yet if I'll be a part in some trAce projects. All I know is that I'll try to be the best Romanian writer.
I wish you good luck!

Happy Fifth Birthday trAce. After nearly a year and a half hanging around with you I’m pleased that you’re still here and I’m still here...wherever exactly 'here' happens to be....The best thing about our time together has been the people I've 'met' - without whom there would be no interesting writing, no useful information and contacts, no collaborative projects, no community, no trAce.

To me trace means a friend who reaches out in welcome. Trace keeps loneliness at bay. Thank you trace. Hwere's a magnum of champagne

trAce is a curious place,
a cafe, a place of learning,
a gallery --
all rolled into one

I like
too many projects
to mention any one
in particular,
but i like that trAce
archives it's work,
and that the site/place
grows and changes

i wish trAce
success

and
look forward...........>>>

Trace is great for making you feel confident if you're young and inexperienced - it allows you to learn from others, and to head in the 'right' direction

10/10 for the poetry conference :)
Somewhere safe to bare your soul!!!

Keep up the good work trAcelites!

Horatio

Happy Anniversary TrAce! I remember your presence on the Web from the early days, and as you've grown, so has my own confidence in using the Web as a writer. More power to you all!

Congratulations Sue, Simon and Helen. You have built an amazing community - one that is really quite unique in its scale and opportunities.
I have met some wonderful people through your hospitality, and made very good friends with some of them! ;-) Thank you for the gift of Noon Quilt, a concept that good doesn't come along very often Sue, and then it is a gift because it takes on a life of its own. Your hypertext competitions with alt-x and marvellous Conference gatherings are a marker and guide to the vitality and diversity of writing and thinking and making that continues to feed online writing and net-art practices.
Its been a pleasurable and rich experience working/playing with you Sue, you are indeed a wizz, and Simon, I love your design and miss your presence at trAce, and Helen, Kids on the Net is fantastic!

much love from Teri

TRACE (Sue and all others) have done such a fine job the last 5 Years
that i prefer to be mute and honour in silence.
:)

Congratulations! Keep stretching the boundaries!

I hope that authors will be treated better by publishers in the future - I hope that is trACE's objective too!

i've learned some, though not as much as i could have,
taught some, though not as much as i could have,
and had a lot of fun.
trAce is addictive, but not so addictive as to leave one needing a life.

you perform a useful function and do so in an intersting way. so i know trAce will grow. i look forward to being able to say that i was one of the members from the first five years.

Good luck and best wishes for the future.

Here's to the next 5 years!

Congratulations and thanks to trAce, for providing the site, offering the opportunities, running the conferences, providing priceless access to mentors and writers in residence, and growing this whole community. The most brilliant portal to the internet.

I look forward to writing in this comment box in another 5 years

With warm wishes for many more years.

I feel like I'm from minor islands, inlying if not outlying, a good word. I wish the best to trAce; I've never seen anything quite like it. I think it's been wildly successful to date! I appreciate the varied activities and conferences here - things are both organized and disorganized in so many directions, that going on the Webboard can be like a voyage of discovery...

Thank you for trAced (a reliable and invaluable resource); fro the projects which have opened my
eyes to the potential of the web and reassured me that literature has a future; for unleashing
Alan Sondheim on an unsuspecting public and challenging us to think.Thank you for letting us
'Only connect...' in so many different ways.

Keep on going, the world needs you
all the best
Sam

Congratulations. More power to your elbow, grist to your mill, string to your bow, and kettle to your pot.

without trAce, we would, mostly, vanish without one. support online writers, join in, get involved, publish yourself online, whatever.

One of the best websites I have had the pleasure of visiting. This is not the future of writing, but one of the futures. The Quilt had a charm and democrarcy about it that I loved. The eclipse pieces were fine. All power to Sue, Helen et al.

Congratulations, Sue, Helen, and everyone else who has been working on trAce for the last five years. You've done an extraordinary service for electronic literature by building a disparate international group of writers and artists into a productive community of friends.

trAce gives me the feeling that there are others out there doing what I do. It staves off the sense of isolation. The Incubation conference was excellent and inspiring.

At the beginning..
TrAce was confusing
Full of ?????
And !!!!!!
What can the internet do for writers
How can we use it?
Isn’t it too
a) difficult
b) expensive
for humble writers to use?
Now we slip web pages up
Quietly
Silently
No big issue
And enable our work
To be enjoyed by a wide audience
Without publishers restrictions
TrAce could be reclassified
As a tool
(ok, rather a simplistic notion, of course everyone struggles with code, computer crashes, slow connections - but things can only get better!)

Have only just hooked up to you and would like to know. As a poet, I am always looking for ways to learn more about poetry, to promote my own work (I won the National in 1998) and even to sell my new collection of poetry, JIGHARZI AN ME!

Cheers Caroline

Congratulations to trAce on five brilliant years!!!!
I am amazed by the breadth of information at trAce, and the incredible energy and enthusiasm the trAce crew brings to this project.
I am grateful for the support trAce has provided to me over the years!

May trAce live on to a time when we see a couple of zeros behind that 5... Hmmm. What will trace look like when it celebrates its 50th anniversary?!?

Here arrives the future I have always dreamed upon:
Those little ones go on to do great things!
Love always and wishing you both the best,
Ren----

I hope my novels or part thereof could come out for people to view. I also hope my artistic work can in future win a prize. I am still working on the translation of my work from chinese to English. It may require the services of other experts of translation.

Congratulations to Sue and all who have made trAce's first five years such a success.
Writing used to be a solitary activity - for many it still is. trAce has made writing social, cooperative, convivial.
trAce and the Noon Quilt are deservedly mentioned in the new Oxford Companion to English Literature - and no, I didn't write that article.
Write on, sisters and brothers!

In the couple of years that I have been associated with trAce I have learnt so much. Even the trAce webboard secrets many fascinating quirks that I have enjoyed exploring with others around the planet.
trAce is exploring a vision ....a mixture of nurturing and exploring new ways of sensory expression and communication combined with a passion for the written word.

When I was growing up in the 50s, we thought the future would be about tinfoil dresses and glossy highrise apartments and machines that cooked any meal at the press of a button! What no-one ever realised was that the communications technology we were developing even back then would mean that the future would be about people. Simply that. So yes, ok, many of us are geographically apart and will probably remain so, and perhaps many of us are already wearing tinfoil and pressing buttons for our dinner (!) but trAce, and many other net-based communities, and other technologies beyond the web like mobile phones etc, have shown us that sometimes, just sometimes, we can leave our bodies behind and yet still be close and in touch. It has been inspiring to read these messages and know that trAce really has linked the world. Thank you all for being there and working with us.

My very first visit to the site. Fantastic! I've just zipped through the site tour. I'll definitely be visiting again, soon. Now I know why I love the internet.

trAce takes the isolation out of my life as a writer. I don't have to jump up and down to be heard, there are ears enough for everyone.

Felicem Diem, trAce! Thanks, Sue and Helen, for all your hard work--and the long hours--which make this site possible. A supportive environment for an online community where one can meet, connect, interact and work with other writers and web artists is a true gem on the web. The Collaborative Writing Conference on the WebBoard and Alan McDonald's Imaginary Countries project have been the highlights of my experience here. I look forward to future developments and wish trAce years of growth and creativity.

trAce was water in a sea of sand -