Dear Subscriber of InterPhil, At the beginning of the new year I like to wish you all the best in 2008 which hopefully brings you joy, peace, health and everything you wish! May we have the wisdom to choose priorities for those things that really matter in life.
I would like to use this occasion to ask for your help for the polylog project of which InterPhil is an integrative service. Our project is very ambitious, maybe too ambitious given that it is a completely voluntary project; and we are only few collaborators. But scholarly self-exploitation has its limits where it endangers the own subsistence. So let me sincerely ask for your help - both through financial support and/or by personal collaboration. I believe you can easily imagine the many efforts that are necessary to make polylog to what it is. Only to keep InterPhil highly topical and relevant huge amounts of information from different sources have to be read and processed daily. But InterPhil forms only a small part of the whole project; and I do not want to dissemble that polylog ultimately got into severe troubles. Not to mention the many plans for advancements and extensions we do not manage to implement since years... Please help us in this effort. Perhaps you can agree with the following position: We make our work freely available, you provide a sum reflecting what the initiative is worth to you. So together we can assure its future. If you would like to help us with a gift, you can easily make your contribution online by credit card, by e-payment, by bank transfer or with a cheque. Contributions of any amount are welcome, also very small ones. If every subscriber gives a little, all in all it will be a substancial help. polylog is recognised as non-profit by German law. Please simple follow the link below and choose your preferred method of payment: http://prof.polylog.org/don-en.htm Become a member of polylog if you would like to support us in the long run. Annual membership dues are intentionally kept low in order to make membership possible for all who are interested. The amount of the dues can be anywhere above the minimum of 20 EUR. We would be happy to have you as a new member. You can easily apply online following this link: http://prof.polylog.org/mbs-en.htm Further, we would be pleased to find new collaborators, especially for translation and proof-reading, but also for the review process, layout and technical work. Since most of the work takes place over email, collaboration can easily be either long-term or on an ad hoc basis. Every kind of help will be most welcome. For example: If you could do one translation a year, even a short one, this would be already a significant help for us. For information on possibilities for collaboration, please see: http://prof.polylog.org/coll-en.htm If you want to collaborate, please send a brief note to <[email protected]> with a short resume, specifying the kind of collaboration you are offering, your philosophical background and your particular interests. This will help us to provide you the tasks which are most appropriate to your competence and interest. I appreciate your time and your attention to this letter and thank you for your generous support for polylog! I look forward to hearing from you. Kind regards from Mexico, Bertold Bernreuter -- Editor of POLYLOG Forum for Intercultural Philosophy [email protected] http://www.polylog.org __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
