From: hancu@crim.ca (Marius Hancu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian
Subject: Message from Prof. G. Dobre from IPB / Experts for Romania
Summary: Get involved in Experts for Romania
Date: 22 Dec 92 12:48:25 GMT
Organization: Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal


Hi:

It seems that our contacts with Romania start to reach outside the Computer
Science / Electrical Engineering community, which is the typical user of
email.

I got a letter from Prof. George Dobre, from the Chair of Elements of
Mechanical Machinery (Organe de Masini, sorry for the inept
translation). 

He is interested in establishing contacts with people working in
Mechanical Engineering, CAD for it, also gear systems (angrenaje). Of
course, he is interested in public domain software packages available for
the above mentioned ares and in teaching material (books, videos,
papers, etc.). He tries to get linux (he does not yet have enough
diskettes) from Prof. Bodea.

Please reach to him. In writing to him, use this address:

mec_elem@pi-bucuresti.th-darmstadt.de

with the subject: For Professor George Dobre.

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As you might sense, the focus of our cooperation with Romania starts
changing. At the point in time when the Internet access will be fully
implemented (still a long time to go) sending public domain software on
diskettes would have less purpose.

I would like starting organizing ourselves more  into an informal body
of experts / specialists, a pool of people willing to be contacted by
their colleagues in Romania on various subjects. 

Thus, I would appreciate if you would assess yourselves which is your
area of interest / expertise (students of ... will be accepted of
course) and start sending me your letter_of_intent_to_help in this area
of free consulting / expertise.

Please list not more than 5 keywords in English. My memory is not able to
deal with more. Also list: your email address, your place of work,
contact phone / fax. 

I will post such lists on the romanians@sep.stanford.edu,
soc.culture.romanian and send them in Romania for propagation. Let me
myself make clear that all contributions will be free. If later, based
on your contacts, you start something lucrative, it's none of our
concern and in the end should be encouraged.

This loosely-coupled (to use a term from my field, parallel computers)
body will be called Experts for Romania. 

I expect this expertise to come in all fields: computer systems,
electrical engineering, business, sciences, history, etc. The only
constraint would be that you must have email access.

Now, while I understand that helping your
friends/buddies/colleagues/mentors in Romania might be a major interest
of your joining in, we will advertise (and expect) that you will
available for being contacted from ANYWHERE in Romania. I don't like
focusing only on some centers.

And something more: make your letters to me short (one paragraph would
do). I have enough email as it is.

I will appreciate some of you volunteering to do the clerical work of
organising a table / database. I will collect the offers and ship the
offer to the database person(s), preferably. Of course, at the beginning
it might be a relatively small thing, but I would like this to run under
a public domain program under unix (with search capability based on
several keys etc). This database and the program will be delivered to
several universities and research centers in Romania in order for them
to do the search for volunteer experts locally. 

And do not expect this to excuse you from contributing financially to
FREE UNIX TO ROMANIA. Give generously, make your friends aware of our
needs and make them budge FINANCIALLY. Jolt them!

Happy New Year
La Multi Ani!

Marius Hancu



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Marius Hancu, Parallel Architectures Group 
Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal (CRIM)
3744, Jean-Brillant, Bureau 500, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1P1, Canada 
phone: (514) 340-5907, fax: 514-340-5777, email: hancu@crim.ca
Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian