I think it's *useful* to know about opportunities for research funding for peer-to-peer networking. Presumably, one only fills out the requested information if one is interested in receiving funding. 1-2 pages of project description is a fairly small amount to fill in in comparison to most funding that academics apply for.
I'll stop there. -Dave On Nov 25, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Marc Manthey wrote:
Am 25.11.2008 um 22:47 schrieb David Andersen:was useful here - i appreciate the forward. :)you think its "usefull " to answer this cataloge of question !!???? sorry too much bureaucratie. regards MarcFor real proposals we ask to hold on the following structure, or at least provide the following information: - Background of the project and basic idea behind it - Existing Work - description of the existing results as basis for the requested project - Mission and Aim of the project - Project proposal: - New Work to be done in the course of the project / Deliverables - problems to be resolved, code, documentation, test plan, etc. - Project management: leader of the project, persons or skills to be involved - Project risks which can be envisaged now - Oversight and reporting (we require at least a quarterly reporting on project progress) - Planning: start, end of the project - Funding/Costing of the project: - Total budget: - Assessment of FTE's - Assessment of equipment costs - Assessment of traveling costs - Other sources of financing (if any) / organisations involved - Promotion plan / Dissemination of results / to be built community and such - Possible continuation - what is next after the project was delivered: plans for the future - Administrative: organisation responsible for project implementation and person signing the funding contract / Memorandum of Understanding So, if you describe your proposal on 1-2 pages holding close to this structure, it will be helpful. I have also to urge you that open source is important as limitation to proposals we consider. A proposal shall fit in our mission to be taken in serious consideration. People normally pay attention to the second part of the mission statement - to the words Open Source and believe we can fund everything around open source: "NLnet stimulates network research and development in the domain of Internet technology. NLnet does not directly benefit from the undertaken projects, and all developments are published as Open Source." The first part states that we sponsor network research and development. In general, the criteria we use are, among others: - does it fit in the mission of NLnet? - is the target group large enough? - what is the possible impact of the developed SW or HW? - are there possibilities to build upon the development? - is the solution generic enough? - is there attention paid to results dissemination? - risks bound to the project / break-off risk?_______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
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