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May 27, 2008
New Federal Grants System to Eliminate Confusion, Bureaucracy For State and Locals
While doing some research on an entirely unrelated topic, I happened upon this article from 1998: New Federal Grants System to Eliminate Confusion, Bureaucracy For State and Locals. It profiles the U.S. Electronic Grants System (EGS), a forerunner to the Federal Commons…
May 21, 2008
Recovering a Slightly Corrupted Zimbra OpenLDAP Directory
Zimbra uses OpenLDAP for its directory, and after way too much fiddling with domains, we ended up corrupting our database. There was a partial “.net” entry in our LDAP that we couldn’t remove. So, we decided to dump the LDAP contents…
May 19, 2008
SF424 form changes in Federal Register
The changes to the SF424 form set have been posted to the Federal Register. You can review them here:
SF424 R&R — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10797.htm
SF424 Mandatory — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10796.htm
SF424 A — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10798.htm
SF424 B — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10795.htm
SF424 C –http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10794.htm
SF424 D…
May 15, 2008
FDP: Update on GMLOB (Take 2!)
This was the second session about GMLOB, and while the majority of the time in this session was spent looking at NSF’s Research.gov, it also included representatives from Education and NIH.…
FDP: Good restaurants near the Fair Lakes Hyatt
This is the first time that the FDP meeting has been held in this part of the world. I live quite close to this location, so I thought a quick list of good local restaurants may be useful! So here it is, in…
FDP: GMLOB Update
Erika Rissi and Stacy Boyd spoke about the new GMLOB strategic landscape. Some interesting developments here, including the new GMLOB Strategic Landscape.…
Reducing Spam Blowback Bounce Messages in Zimbra
With our company’s move to the Zimbra mail server finally complete (and working very well), we noticed an sudden increase of a particular type of spam: fake bounce or mail server error messages. This was surprising since our old mail and…
FDP: Grants.gov Update
The new Grants.gov PMO discussed the status of the system. Eben Trebino introduced the session:
Working with a system built 3 years ago that’s handling four times more capacity than it was designed to manage. Now approaching 130,000 applications being submitted through…
FDP: Agency Updates
Turns out that there is no wifi access in the main meeting room at the FDP meeting, so I’ll be taking notes and posting them as soon as I reach an access point.
The first session provided updates from many Federal…
May 14, 2008
And I’ll be blogging from the FDP meeting
I should have noted that I’ll be blogging from the FDP meeting tomorrow, as long as there’s a wifi network available. (And there’d better be or the hotel will have a riot on its hands!)…