How do we limit which types of problems we aim to solve? Well, eventually we would like the computer to define an ontology of problems, and be able to do planning. Until we have such software, however, we are simply using our intuitition. Our main focus currently is recruiting the core group of programmers and packagers, since we feel that our purpose is well-defined but impractical without a software development team focused on achieving the above 3 goals. These goals simplify somewhat the actual nature of the problems, which we cannot yet summarise, so you might already be thinking about some of the limitations of the above 3 goals. Check out our internal codebases to get a better picture of the state of our approach.
Having defined the goals adequately, a core group of individuals with a largely altruistic interest was recruited. However this took longer than expected due to said social disability.
The core team now consists of a group of 4 highly creative individuals. However, luckily, there are about 30 people in the area who have expressed serious interest in participation when the group has become more established. Therefore, we are working on recruiting primary members who are of exceptional value to the group right now.
There are about 100 people in the area who have expressed an interest in certain aspects of the project which are of mutual interest.
Lastly, once we are organized we will see what kind of interest exists in the online community.
As far as resources go, we have not raised money yet, prefering instead to fund the project from small business. We have a software product we will sell shortly to raise more money, and we are pursuing fundraising opportunities for the project concurrently.
We have about 15 computers, 10 of which are XP 1800/512 DDR/120 GB.
Andrew J. Dougherty Last modified: Wed Feb 16 14:32:00 EST 2005