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On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 11:49 PM Paul Boddie <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sunday 5. May 2019 22.02.09 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > > > .... yep :) the good news is, the dev-process issues are resolved, > > production just rolls off the assembly line. > > Great! > > [...] > > > btw, i meant to ask you, paul: would you like to be the person that > > applies for the NLnet Grant? (and then subsequently acts as the > > coordinator)? > > I'm not sure I'd be comfortable doing so, not least because I don't think I > have the skill set for managing something like this, and I also don't have the > kind of background for working with grants, applications and the accompanying > paperwork. I have worked with people who have been involved with such things > in academia, and my impression is that experience with these processes counts > for a lot. not in this case: the application was only rejected because the NLnet Foundation needed to tick a single box, "you're one person applying for 2 projects, and we have a 1st-project-1st-application limit of EUR $50k. is there a 2nd person, living in the EU, who could be the front-man, for... um.... EU-bureaucracy-satisfying-political-reasons, kinda thing?" > Maybe there are people you know with more experience with such matters, also > with project management experience in the hardware domain, who might be worth > approaching. I also imagine that you would really want someone closer to the > action than people like me watching the action from several time zones away. mmm... again.... no, not really :) and it's more that you're an advocate for success, and your reputation in the software libre world, that matters more. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
