RE: preparation of partner selection...

Dear Prof. Bruyninckx,

>> please regard Profactor and INFA (Technical University Vienna) as ONE
group
>> when it comes to partner formation for OROCOS.
> Fine! And which of both institutes would be the `official' representative?
Since Markus is in vacation, I would say Profactor should be the "one".
If you need input for the proposal, I (until 7th of January, then in Las
Palmas) or my colleague Christof Eberst ([email protected]) can
support you actively.

>> It is clear, that we can not compete with Henrik Christensen's mass of
human
>> resources (especially not people paid by other means :-). Nevertheless, I
>> believe, that Profactor could contribute to the project in the following
>> aspects
> [...  Lots of interesting expertise deleted...]
> You don't make my job easier :-) Of course, I would like to include
> everybody of you in the proposal, but that will be impossible.
That is clear enough. See paragraph above.

> On the other hand, you do raise an interesting option: maybe other
> research groups also are closely working together, such that they
> could be represented as one single entity and hire somebody for the
> OROCOS project that `defends' both their interests together?
The first open (re)source project ;-)) Looking forward to take part ...

Best regards,

Kurt Häusler
Profactor Produktionsforschungs GmbH
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