Chris,
This effort was part of an ongoing effort by the Executive Board of the SAS Global Users Group to enhance the user experience. The sasCommunity.org was the first venture beyond the conference and putting the proceedings was the second major effort.

The archives of the SUGI/SAS Global Forum is quite interesting how you can see the important part that SAS Users have played in the evolution of SAS products. I have been able to trace the genesis of some of the products such as ACCESS to early papers at SUGI where users needed to get data from their databases and built interfaces to them to SAS.

It is a facinating historical archive and I am sure users will find it equally enlightening. The proceedings are available on sasCommunity.org as a "virtual bookself" and on Lex Jansen's site with his author and tile search capability.

We are hoping to improve the "virtual bookshelf" view for the users so if others have ideas on how to provide new ways to access the data, please let us know. I have already been toying with the idea of having a search by SAS PROC and also search by Industry. It is quite interesting how the mappings come out.