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B.4     The consortium and project resources

Describe the role of the participants and the specific skills of each
of them. Show how the participants are suited and committed to the
tasks assigned to them; show the complementarity between
participants. Describe how the opportunity of involving SMEs has been
addressed. Describe the resources, human and material, that will be
deployed for the implementation of the project.  Include a STREP
Project Effort Form, as shown below, covering the full duration of the
project.  Demonstrate how the project will mobilise the critical mass
of resources (personnel, equipment, finance... ) necessary for
success; and show that the overall financial plan for the project is
adequate.

(Recommended length ­ five pages)

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The consortium and project resources
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**DFKI**

  Role:    Project Coordinator & Technical Partner
  Country: Germany
  Contact: Alastair Burt

  Skills, Commitment, Resources:


**AB Strakt**

  Role:    Project Management & Technical Partner
  Country: Sweden
  Contact: Jacob Hallén

  Skills, Commitment, Resources:

  
**University of Southampton**

  Role:    Technical Partner
  Country: United Kingdom
  Contact: Armin Rigo

  Skills, Commitment, Resources:


**Python Business Forum**

  Role:    Technical Partner
  Country: Europe
  Contact: Holger Krekel

  Skills, Commitment, Resources:

**Logilab**

  Role:    Technical Partner
  Country: France
  Contact: Nicolas Chauvat

  Skills, Commitment, Resources: 
  Logilab specializes in the use of Python for advanced computing, artificial
  intelligence and knowledge manipulation. Logilab works for large public and
  private entities in France and Europe, including Commissariat à l'Energie
  Atomique, Electricité De France, SNECMA, etc. Logilab was involved in two
  IST projects before, ASWAD (free software workflows for public administration)
  and KIDDANET (web filtering for kids based on machine learning techniques).

  For over three years, Logilab has been dedicating resources to high-profile
  projects such as intelligent agents, natural language processing and
  semantic web applications. Several are already available as free software.

  Logilab is commited to free software and has been contributing to the free
  software and Python communities since its creation in 2000, in part through
  its Logilab.Org website.

  Logilab is currently steadily growing and is expected to reach the size of
  10 people by the end of 2003. Logilab's role in the project as a technical
  partner will be to contribute to the implementation of the new interpreter,
  port its existing projects (logic and aspect-oriented programming, static
  checking, etc.) to the new interpreter using object-spaces and develop for
  embedded devices.


**Interested developers**
  
tomek meka, christian tismer, michael hudson, tim peters, alex martelli, dinu gherman, anna ravenscroft, gunter janton, samuele pedroni