Bruce,
The deadline depends on what funding level you target.
For smaller scale projects, the deadline is in May.
For the biggest scale project, the deadline is not
until January. If you are really interested, I would
suggest looking at this link:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05559/nsf05559.pdf I
haven't read through everything in detail, but reading
that description would give you an idea of
specifically what they are looking for and where you
think the project would fit in.
Before writing anything, the next step would be to
call the program manager and tell them about the
project to see if they think it is something that they
would fund. You may also ask them how they anticipate
measuring the success of the project, or anything else
you can think of that may help you get ideas for
organizing the proposal. The program manager is:
Myles Boylan, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], telephone:
703-292-4617. You may want to e-mail to set up a
telephone meeting, but I would encourage a telephone
conversation rather than e-mail. It helps to get to
know them and gauge their response to your idea.
I have written several grant proposals to the NSF and
have also participated in reviewing proposals. I also
reviewed some of these CCLI educational proposals in
the past. Like I said, I'll be willing to help with
advice or editing. When I sat on the CCLI proposal
review panel, people were generally impressed with
projects that could be widely distributed easily.
Many projects called for developing a lab space at a
specific university or something similar and these
proposals were rejected as impacting to narrow a
population of students. Education technology that
could be distributed via the internet was viewed
positively because it could impact a wide range of
students. That is why I think this bibliographic
project could do well, even though it doesn't fit the
traditional mold of developing a course or tutorial
software. The program manager will let you know what
he thinks about the idea. He may be able to give you
some hints on how to mold the project to fit his
program.
Hope that helps. If you do decide to give it a shot,
please let me know what the program manager thinks of
the idea. If he completely shoots it down, it isn't
worth going through the process of writing the
proposal. However, I doubt that he will.
-Matt
--- Bruce D'Arcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Feb 17, 2005, at 10:37 AM, Matthew Yates wrote:
>
> > I cannot write the grant myself (I am not a
> developer
> > and do not know a lot about the openoffice.org
> > organization). However, I do have experience
> writing
> > grants and would be willing to give advice and/or
> edit
> > a proposal if anyone is interested. It is a lot
> of
> > work to write a good one, but I think there is a
> > strong possibility of getting funding. The
> proposal
> > can be submitted by virtually anyone in the U.S. I
> > think. It is open to universities, non-profit
> > institutions, government organizations, for-profit
> > institutions, and individuals.
>
> This is not a bad idea. I'm in the U.S. When's the
> deadline? My
> time's really short for the next couple months.
>
> If I did do it, I'd need a lot of help.
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
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