[SCL] Re: Getting a move on

[Bill Andersen]

On Monday, Dec 16, 2002, at 22:39 US/Eastern, pat hayes wrote:

Pat,

This all sounds pretty reasonable at first glance.

> The main purpose of this email is to ask each of you:
>
> (1) if you are willing to take part in this activity, ideally as an 
> active member but perhaps in a consultative capacity. (If anyone would 
> like to volunteer to *chair* it, I would be delighted to entertain 
> suggestions, but in the meantime I will act as organizer and chair.)

Yes - active.  I intend to step up my involvement (partly as a result 
of being chastised by you ;-D)

> (2) if you can suggest anyone else who should be invited to take part 
> (I perhaps should admit  that some of y'all I do not expect to be able 
> or willing to volunteer, but I thought you might be able to suggest 
> someone else who might)

I would suggest some of the European formal ontology crowd -- this 
bunch would have a big stake as they seem to have the most severe 
demands in terms of expressiveness and seems to be under-represented in 
the current list.  Perhaps one from Nicola Guarino's lab in Trento and 
one from Barry Smith's lab in Leipzig.  I will forward your appeal to 
them.

> (3) if you know of any sources of funds that might be available to 
> support this effort, or any suggestions that might help facilitate it.

Nope, not right off hand.  Is this the kind of thing that DARPA would 
do in the timeframe you suggest?

> Thanks for reading this far, and happy holidays.

You too.

   .bill

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