#4746: Update: Mason, Allen & MIT2 (fwd)

[Robert Corbett <bcorbett@netcom.com>]

From:MariLinc@aol.com

Friends and Colleages,


This is quite an important day:

1) This is our new CEO Jeff Allen's last day at ELRA/ELDA in Paris!  After a 
much-deserved vacation of several weeks' duration, he will formally take up 
his dual responsibilities as Senior Project Director at Softissimo (Paris, 
France) and as CEO of MIT2.

2) Jeff has not been waiting till the Fall, however, to devote a tremendous 
amount of time to the task of working with me to bring together our shared 
vision for MIT2 in the form of a revised business plan, the "Lite Version" of 
which will become available this week.  By Fall, the full-blown "Pro Version" 
will be finalized.


And, this "in between time" is critical in the life of MIT2.

Operating capital is practically non-existent; yet MIT2 must continue to take 
big steps into the future.  MIT2 is no longer an infant but rather like a 
growing teenager with a bottom-less pit for a stomach and feet that outgrow 
their sneakers overnight!

It is essential to maintain MIT2's growing high profile presence in the 
language technologies field in order to attract the kind of major capital 
investment it requires to become a "full blown operation".

For that, we need more transitional operating capital than ever before.

I would therefore urge everyone of you -- who would like to see Creole 
languages, as well as indigenous and vernacular languages, commercially 
supported with the language technologies afforded the "major languages" [not 
my term] -- to support MIT2 in this growth stage.

Decades of development work have gone into this initiative.  If this 
initiative does not succeed, it would take many more years for a similar 
initiative to get off the ground.  Valuable time will be lost and these 
language groups will continue to be ignored by the "big language technologies 
players" [again, not my term].

Please contact me if you are interested in supporting MIT2 through its 
program for small investors.

Become part of this initiative and help make it happen.

Marilyn

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Marilyn Mason, President
Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd (MIT2)
P.O. Box 181015
Boston, MA  02118  USA
(617) 247-8885 (office & answering machine)
(617) 262-8923 (FAX)
MariLinc@aol.com (e-mail)
Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd Home Page:
   http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/Index2.html
Introducing CreoleScan and CreoleConvert:
   http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/IntroCrScCrConv.htm
Meet the Creator of CreoleScan and CreoleConvert:
   http://members.aol.com/marilinc/Index3.html
Jeff Allen Appointed MIT2's New CEO:
   http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/JA-MIT2CEO.htm
Strategic Partnership with CreoleTrans:
   http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/HTart.htm
Strategic Partnership with Educational CyberPlayground:
   http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/announcemit2.html  
Strategic Partnership with Haiti Online:
   http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/HOL-MIT2.htm
Strategic Partnership with TAAI:
   http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/TAAI-MIT2.htm