Excerpted from Lee Felsenstein's 3 August 2002 tribute, In memoriam - Bob Bickford (submitted on the occasion of the memorial service in Seattle):

I invited Bob to the Odd Sundays gathering at the Edinburgh Castle pub in San Francisco in the '80's, where an interesting crowd occupied the large round table, drank and talked of everything. It was there that Greta met Bob, so I feel I have a minor role in that story. He participated in the first Hacker's Conference, as a volunteer, I believe, and came to serve on the Steering Committee of the later conferences. I recall visiting with him in Corte Madera and the two of us deciding to act on the committee's decision to zero-base the invitations list, whereupon we both were blackballed from the committee. Bob was just not good at political maneuvering, preferring to be straightforward and let things fall as they may.

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