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March 28, 2008
GPC Webcast available
So it says here:
The archived version of the GPC Webcast from March 18, 2008 is now available from our website at http://www.grants.gov/aboutgrants/grants_news.jsp. Once you are brought to HUD’s website, if the link does not take you to HUD’s directly…
Updated FFATA Subaward Pilot meeting information
More details on the FFATA Subaward Pilot project have been announced. The original announcement is here. Apparently the pilot project is scheduled to start June 23 and end August 23, 2008. If you are interested in participating, join the meeting…
March 27, 2008
GPC Webcast available soon
I missed the GPC webcast last week due to another commitment, and didn’t know about the problem that was mentioned in the Grants.gov mailing list yesterday:
Yesterday’s Webcast was unable to be viewed outside of HUD due to an unfortunate and…
March 26, 2008
Using a Wii Controller on Mythbuntu
My wife and I love our MythTV box (a great set of open source projects that allow you to make your own TiVo-like machine), so we just needed to have a front-end box for our treadmill. But, we didn’t have an extra…
Creating an RSS feed From an iCalendar Zimbra Stream
At TCG, we have moved to using Zimbra for company-wide collaboration and are rather pleased with its mail and calendar capabilities. Within the system we created an event calendar to hold vacations or company events, and I thought that an RSS…
March 24, 2008
FFATA Subaward Pilot Workgroup
Much happening on the FFATA subaward front! Here’s the best way to get the latest information and get involved, courtesy of the NGP:
At our last webcast, the NGP offered to support Andrea Brandon and her FFATA Sub-Award Pilot Workgroup.…
March 18, 2008
Big Dog: $10m of your money put to good use
Big Dog is a quadruped robot developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). This thing can traverse rough territory while carrying significant payloads, which could be very useful in situations such as battle, health…
March 14, 2008
Asterisk (Evolution) and Cisco 7960 phones
Asterisk plays very nicely with Cisco 7960 phones, and we have quite a few of them. Unfortunately there are some interesting configuration issues, and I thought I’d get them all down, with explanations and workarounds.
We were having a problem where our phones,…
Grants Management Events Calendar
For a while I’ve been frustrated that there’s no one single source of information about grants management events. Between Grants.gov, the Grants Policy Committee, GMLOB, NGMA, NGP, and FDP, there’s a lot going on! So I decided to make one, and just added…
Reaching Out to Financial Assistance Stakeholders — NGMA session notes
Today I attended the NGMA lunch where Lois W. Paul of the US Fish & Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, presented “Reaching Out to Financial Assistance Stakeholders.” I was most interested in Lois’s discussion of the ways in which the Bureau has…