MINUTES OF FIRST MEETING

Election of officers.

Chairman (Executive Officer): Ray
Vice-Chairman (Operation Officer: Schedule and coordinate operations): Ben
Secretary (Knowledge officer: Manage knowledge resources of operation,
including "public relations"): Joe
Treasurer (Financial officer: Manage the corporate account): Chris

Membership:

Board/Members. Advisors, research associates. By invitation for
non-voting associate members and visiting members. Wouldn't pay dues
but would have a half-page biography. Board will vote. If we find
that someone misrepresents themselves in the application or abuses
their membership, they can be removed/disqualified following a certain
procedure. They would have to be invited by the board. Secretary
will keep rolls of the organization.

Members: access to supercomputers and research facilities, including
webpage. (Might have to limit the general public.) Possibly we will
have a place where people can meet. We may have regular in-person
meetings -- we can pay money to have in-person meetings.

Initial research projects:

* How do we decide what to do research on? -- Basically whatever the
members want to do. How informal or formal will the process be?

* Books; (scholium system, linguistics stuff, some stuff related to
mathematical logic); applied quantum systems; algebra and quantum
algebra; Noosphere maintenance and development; Supercomputer
software management; digital library project

General purpose *community* discussions; synchronous and asynchronous
media. Each group will have to decide how they will organize their
affairs. Seminars will run across groups. Hiring can be done group
by group.

Scholium system: "web links" replaced with semantic links, including
links to links -- more flexible than contemporary hypertext systems.
Not limited to any old model of hypertext. It would be nice to have a
seminar on this!