Fromm: on behalf of Ben Goertzel <:as I To:Jeevacationleevacafiongpsnall.com> Subject: Re: brief update, and question: Interested to fund the video recording and editing of the AGI Summer School lectures, for $2K? Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:51:03 +0000 Great, thanks! On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Jeevacation <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes > Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 29, 2009, at 6:57 PM, Ben Goertzel <-> wrote: >> Hi Jeffrey, >> >> Quick financial update: I've sorted out how to cover my own expenses >> thru mid-July, via the investment Novamente received. >> >> I've been carrying on with the mathematical formalization stuff I've >> been doing for the last couple months. >> >> But the main topic of this email is: For 3 weeks in June/July I'll be >> leading the world's first AGI Summer School, which will be in Xiamen, » China >> • http://www.goertzel.org/AGI_Summer_School_2009.htm >> >> As with pretty much every such endeavor in the current economy, >> funding is rather tight. We're right at the point where tuition from >> students will match stipends to faculty (and note that my own stipend » will be covering my expenses for a couple weeks). >> » Some of the lectures are quite general in scope, and about 1/3 of them >> are fairly specific to my OpenCog project. There will be 7 >> international faculty giving the lectures, including me. >> >> I'd like to have the lectures effectively recorded and edited and >> placed online, so as to educate folks who can't make it to China this >> summer. >> >> I don't trust the Chinese university to do this ... to make a long >> story short, they have a special Chinese way of screwing things up. I >> found someone (Raj Dye) who is enthused to record and edit the >> lectures for free, but I need $2000 to cover his airfare and room and » board. Question is whether you're interested to donate $2K to the >> summer school for this purpose. >> >> Ben >> >> >> >> >> >> >> --