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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
