To: Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@yahoo.com>, Caleb Pritchard <cpritchard2001@gmail.com>
Hi, Clark-
Thanks for getting in touch; I appreciate you offering your time to this effort.
We certainly have use for another lawyer; I've been relying on my entertainment lawyer for advice thus far, and though I believe we have one or two others with law degrees or some such, I don't know how experienced they are.
One thing specifically we could use your help with is advising us on how to proceed with a charitable trust we'd like to establish within the next sixth months. The funds will be overseen by our governing network (on which I'd like for you to serve), perhaps a subcommittee chosen by virtue of relevant skill sets. Until such time as the software is ready and both networks are established, we're working informally without use of the communicational schematics I've designed for the network. I've got a fellow with a hedge fund background whom I'll have think about the financial aspects for now; if you're willing, I'd like you to talk to him about how this might best be handled and let me know what you come up with (I have absolutely zero knowledge of finance), if only just a general plan to be implemented by someone else later if you'd like. And as noted above, I'd want you to serve on the governing network as well, which would require no commitment on your part (inaction by a member is not to the detriment of the network) but which would still allow you to contribute heavily to the form our project takes to the extent that you are able and willing to participate.
Please let me know if this is agreeable to you. I'm CCing this to my associate Caleb Pritchard, an NBC news producer who's in charge of members of the governing body (of which we now have about 40); let either of us know if you have any questions or ideas. And thanks again for your willingness to assist in Project PM; I can promise you that we will have some degree of positive effect on the manner in which information flows from origin to citizen.
This is to express my interest in Project PM. I am not a blogger or journalist, just an admirer of your thoughtful and entertaining online work.
I am a retired lawyer; have also been a teacher. I am the same guy as robchicago on your True/Slant followers list.. Clark (Rob) Robinson robinsonchicago@yahoo.com