Minciu Sodas Laboratory
Grudu g 6, LT-2020
Vilnius, Lithuania


Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:26:01 -0800


Mr. Rod Welch
rowelch@attglobal.net
The Welch Company
440 Davis Court #1602
San Francisco, CA 94111 2496

Subject:   Minciu Sodas application form

Dear Rod,

It was very good to talk over the phone.

I just want to write up some of what we talked about.

I invite you to become a member of the Minciu Sodas laboratory - for free - in return for your placing in the public domain excerpts from some of your papers, especially...


POIMS, the Art of Automated Management for the 21st Century

New World Order Needs Old Time Religion


I will send you the excerpts, probably some time next week. Upon your confirmation, I will post them at our website for people to copy and share. I will be sure to credit you with each excerpt.

Our laboratory works as a forum where members build relationships as they work together towards shared endeavors. Our work is public, but we also encourage private relationships amongst our members. Here you might find programmers, investors, and corporate users to work with. I will work that our forum might be a productive space for you to provide leadership in further developing your Schedule Diary System. As a member, you will be able to participate in our various working groups.

I think a major challenge will be to help explain how your Schedule Diary System works. Ultimately, this will need to be made explicit, and I hope that within our laboratory there will be members interested to help. Our investigator Steve Raiff, raiff@brainfarming.com, is the leader of Think Club, which meets in the Silicon Valley area. Currently they are looking at a different tool for thinking at each meeting, and I think they might be very interested if you demonstrated yours.

It will take some work for us all to figure out how SDS fits with things other members are working on. I invite you to consider making your current DOS version of SDS available free to our members. Over time, members may help write up how your system works. If you decide to make your software available, I would be happy to award you the title of Advisor of the Minciu Sodas laboratory.

It was good talking! I attach an application form, please write "for free". I also send a copy of this letter to Steve Raiff.

Sincerely,



Andrius Kulikauskas
Minciu Sodas Laboratory
http://www.ms.lt
ms@ms.lt
619 298-7019 until April 29th