On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:22 PM, kcrisman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> OK, I have to back peddle.  I'm checking through all my email, and
>> it's true that we did put together a proposal for the 2009 JMM, but
>> then (in consultation with somebody on the committee) decided not to
>> submit it, partly because of another Sage MAA minicourse proposal for
>> the same meeting.   So, the AMS certainly didn't reject our Sage
>> proposal, since we didn't even submit it.   It turns out the Sage MAA
>> proposal was rejected, and this rejection was considered "stunning" by
>> some.  However, the proposer of that MAA minicourse said "our chances
>> should be a lot better in a year..." though evidently that did not
>> turn out to be the case, with another stunning rejection (?).
>>
>
> I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing here... There was a
> rejection of a general open-source MAA session, which they thought
> might not have enough submissions, so we had a very nice, well-
> attended MAA panel (R, Sage, Undergrad Research, and WebWorK)
> instead.

OK, so evidently though our chances should be a lot better for 2010
for the MAA minicourse, they were actually worse because we didn't
apply.

> I never heard anything about it being "stunning" that we were
> rejected, so perhaps that is referring to a different proposal I'm not
> aware of?  Jason's comments on the latest attempt are in a different
> post in this thread, but it was a very different kind of proposal - a
> summer week-long intensive online workshop.
>
>> > Jason G. says, "it might be nice to get an idea of what they did/
>> > didn't do" ... since we might want to submit a proposal for an MAA
>> > minicourse eventually.  Not the same thing, but still... any ideas, on
>> > or off list?
>>
>> Well one clear thing we did which prevented our proposal from being
>> accepted was not submitting our proposal!
>>
>
> I don't say LOL much, but that's an LOL.

Definitely.   Most grants I fail to get are because I don't apply.
I've failed to get thousands (nay millions) of grants that way.  :-)

William

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