[Sigia-l] Official Launch of the AIfIA

[Andrew Hinton]

Jan's points are well taken and very helpful. Let me point out that this is
exactly the kind of discussion we want to encourage on the AIFIA members
list (that's what that list is really for -- not the more general theory &
practice discussions that usually go on here).



::janha+sigial at ifi.uio.no::wrote on 11/10/02 5:49 PM:

> * Louis Rosenfeld <lou at louisrosenfeld.com>
> | First, much of the content we're planning on making available will
> | be free to both members and non-members.  The AIfIA's US$30
> | membership fee is incredibly low compared with just about every
> | professional association under the sun.  If, as Jan suggests, the
> | field of IA has a "high cost of entry" (I disagree, but that's
> | another conversation), that's certainly not the case with the
> | decidedly not-for-profit AIfIA.
> 
> My concern was not so much what AIfIA is today, but what it might
> evolve to in the future.  I agree that the cost of entry is not
> particularly high right now, but included in the cost of entry is both
> money and other more intangible things like specific knowledge or
> skills.  Due to the current very broad definition of what (etc ...)

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andrew
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