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(c) KASIC/Sinclair Club
Interview with Kirill Morozov(TWINSEN)
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PARADOX'99
К> Please tell us more about your
participation in organizing the PARADOX festival?
Т> Well, of course you don’t want to
praise, but as if the idea was mine. I
I consider myself the main inspiration and
organizer of this event.
К> How long ago did you have this idea?
Т> Somewhere in the middle of spring, in April.
K> And what was it with?connected?
T> This was due to the fact that
some opportunity to organize a party
exactly in Rostov, so you don’t need to go anywhere
was to go. In general, this idea has been around for a long time
was in the air, but there were no opportunities.
We have heard about huge sums
which are required for
festival: room rental, projector and
etc.
К> How were you able to organize
is this a party?
T> We have developed some connections with the commission for
youth policy "Fatherland".
К> Do you work there?
Т> Yes, I work there. I am a member of the regional
commissions. In principle, they supported me there
first of all morally, i.e. they said that
organizing a festival is quite possible.
We worked in every possible way with sponsors, also
providedus financial assistance. I'm in
in turn used connections that
is in this organization. Then he suggested
this idea to Alexey Gomalov/Warhawk. He
the first person who supported me with
with enthusiasm. Later on this matter we
connected Andrey Kharchenko/Joker/Omega
Hackers Group,or rather, he connected himself,
we just offered it to him. He is very
I was overjoyed and almost jumped to the ceiling.
He immediately said that he would take over
Spectrum, well, in general, I was in complete ecstasy.
Joker also brought to usScreecheraka
Victor Chaban. Here the four of us gathered at
Warhawk in the apartment. We sat somewhere
three hours, almost completely amounted to
festival schedule.
К> Which sponsors supported you and what
exactly sponsored?
T> The first sponsor to respond
after sending out faxes, there was the company "Eltes".
They immediately called us and expressed
hugeinterest, allocated to us
access to the Internet so that we
were able to post their page with
Paradox advertising and open FTP to
which people could upload their work.
I would also really like to thank
Rostov branch of the newspaper "CompuTerra".
They are literally from the first call
We agreed on a meeting and everything went smoothly
problems. On the pages of your newspaper
advertised our festival. More from
advertising was helped by the computer newspaper "What,
where, how much?”, circulation of which is 7000
copies.
К> What would you like to add in conclusion?
T> I want to once again thank everyone who
supported us and all those who were able to come
come to us at PARADOX!
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