[alicebot-archcomm] archcomm membership

[Yuri Tijerino]

Rich,

I know I haven't really contributed much to the committee although I have
offered to do so in the past.  However, I recently joined the Computer
Science department at Brigham Young University.  I will see if the
university wantst to join the foundation.  I certainly can't afford it it
mysefl because of financial hardship over the past year.  However, I am
planning to start contributing more in the near future as I have some ideas
and personal interests in extending the AIML language.  What I am trying to
do is create tools for the the supervised semi-automated generation of AIML
categories from unstructured text.  This is something I am planning to do
with some folks from the linguistics department at our university.

So a short answer to your inquiry, is yes I plan to join and will try to
convince my department to pay the suggested fee.  However, I need some time
to find out what I need to do get approval as I just joined less than 6
weeks ago the university.

Yuri Tijerino
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Rich Wallace" <drwallace@alicebot.org>
To: <alicebot-archcomm@list.alicebot.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 11:48 AM
Subject: [alicebot-archcomm] archcomm membership


> I am writing to solicit early feedback from the Architecture committee on
> your plans for 2003-2004.
>
> The A. I. Foundation is going to ask members of the Architecture committee
> who have not already done so to formally join the Foundation as members.
> Those archcomm members who represent large corporations or institutions
> should try to encourage their companies to become Gold sponsors of the AIF
> like Franz, Pandorabots, and Oddcast have, and give $1000 per year.
> Individual professional consultants should join at the Silver membership
> level of $100 per year.  Students, retired, youth and disabled members may
> join for $25 per year.
>
> Any architecture committee member who has made a significant contribution
> and who faces an overwhelming financial hardship, and who wishes to
> continue to participate in the A. I. Foundation Architecture Committee
> activities after his term expires in June, 2003, may write me a letter
> explaining his or her circumstances and I will certainly take them into
> account when reappointing the committee.
>
> The Board and I thank those members of the Architecture committee who have
> already joined the A.I. Foundation as corporate Gold members, Individual
> Silver members, student Bronze members, and anonymously.
>
>
> http://www.alicebot.org/join.html
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> Dr. Rich
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