Hey there! Glad to hear from you, sorry about the late reply. Neat to see somebody found us via up-for-grabs.net
Fun fact: I mentioned us using that site at a session at the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit last year ... and the author of the site spoke up saying oh he's the one who wrote that. Small world! Like 10 people in the room.
Great goals! There has been some good activity in the AI area lately as part of GSOC, so it'll be exciting to see what develops over the summer
Let us know if you run into any question while setting up to run from source, looking for initial issues to work on, etc.