Man, I'm really glad that logic and common sense prevailed. So the system worked out. Hopefully the rest will make just as much sense. It will take only one idiotic grant to make the rest of the program look like the bank bailout then no one will get any respect.
I personally thank you for your service, David. You are doing well. Bob- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David E. Smith Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:20 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] stimulus announcements thus far On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 13:24, Robert West <[email protected]>wrote: > So how did it get through? :) > > The grants were reviewed and scored by independent volunteers (I was one), who scored each of them using a fairly complex rubric. It covered things like "does this meet one of the government's broadband deployment and economic stimulus goals," of course, but there also were a lot of points for things like "is this budget realistic" and "will this technology actually do what the applicant says it will." Obviously, the volunteers' scores weren't the only factor considered by NTIA, but I'm proud to have been a bit of a nonsense-filter. Obviously I can't talk about any of the specific applications I reviewed, but the five applications, totaling over 1000 pages, had a couple doozies in there. Some folks were interested in trying to build out broadband, others were pretty clearly just making a cash grab. I'm hoping I was able to do a little bit to help the former and quell the latter. David Smith MVN.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
