May 14, 2008

See you at the FDP meeting tomorrow! Although you may miss me…

I’m going to the FDP meeting tomorrow at the Fair Lakes Hyatt in Fairfax, VA. If you’re there, look for the bespectacled fellow furiously typing on a Macbook. Wait… That describes about a third of the audience. Okay… Look for the bespectacled…
May 9, 2008

Git – Fast Version Control System

Git is an open source version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency, but just as well suited for small personal repositories; it is especially popular in the open source community, serving as a development platform…
May 8, 2008

Transparency Act Subaward Pilot — updated details

This meeting will be on May 14th, from 2–4pm. The call-in details have been updated. (If you subscribe to the Grants Management Events Calendar you’d already have the updated details in your calendar! Click here to automagically subscribe to the…
May 7, 2008

NIH seeking an “Electronic Grant Applications” system

Back in March NIH released a sources sought notice for “Electronic Grant Applications.” You can review it here. This notice asked industry to submit capability statements for the analysis and development of a system that would enable grantees to submit grant applications…

NIH eRA GMLOB appeal granted

I just got wind of this notice from NIH’s Nexus newsletter. It says it all. This is excellent news for all the agencies concerned! eRA Grants Management Line of Business Appeal Granted The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently granted…
May 6, 2008

NIH procuring grants systems engineering help

One of the larger, if not the largest, grants management system in government is run by the NIH. It’s called the Electronic Research Administration (eRA…yes, with a small ‘e’) and you can read all about it here. NIH is currently recompeting…

AWARD — off-the-shelf grant evaluation software

Thanks to Matt Jillings at Compusearch, I recently met John Thompson and Kristen Chhim of Commerce Decisions, an English company that produces procurement source selection and performance monitoring systems for the British government, called AWARD. (By the way, I find myself intensely…

GMLOB alliances: The story updated

Back in March I posted about the various MOUs signed between agencies and GMLOB providers. Alice Stewart of Management Concepts has been researching this, and I’ve been very remiss in not updating the list. So I’m fixing that now! Additions are…
May 5, 2008

Office 2007 converter for OSX

After receiving a lot of files with the dreaded “.docx” filename extension, I discovered that Microsoft has a converter available for OSX that transforms these Windows Office 2007 files into Mac Office 2004 format. It’s not perfect (it’s in beta right now) and…
April 28, 2008

GForge 4.5.11+ works well on PHP5

For our NITRC project, which is based on GForge 4.5.x, we wanted to integrate it with MediaWiki.  However, while the latest version of MediaWiki (which has group workspaces) runs on PHP 5, and all of the GForge documentation refers to…