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[Stephanie Gerson <sgerson@stanfordalumni.org>]

hi all,

Not sure if this is the right time to raise this, and it might get lost in the
shuffle.  If so (becauase you are too busy doing the wonderful work you've
been doing!) - no worries, I'll raise it again.

So we were denied funding from the Lindbergh Foundation (*very* competitive, I
didn't expect to get funding but tried anyhow).  But they had some very useful
feedback for us that I wanted to share with you, and ask you advice on for
future grant proposals:

-Literature: they have a literature category, and ours was apparently weak. 
What informational resources (books, websites, or otherwsie) could serve as a
Bibliography for our project?  Ideas welcome!

-Basic Need: they didn't see PIW as satisfying any basic needs - most of the
world's population lives in dense urban areas and have little time to
experiment with intense urban agriculture.  How do we respond to this?

-Mechanism for Peer Reviewal: would this simply be user feedback?  Or do we
want to involve designers of other Biology/Ecology-related databases, or
Biology/Ecology experts?  

I'd Love to hear what you think.  And when the time is ripe, perhaps I'll ask
these questions on the PIW list.

more proposals in the works...
*Stephanie


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Stephanie Gerson
sgerson@stanfordalumni.org
(c) 415.871.5683


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