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[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

Stephanie Gerson wrote:
> Sounds fascinating, Rich.
>
> The grant has been disseminated, Scott is in charge of distributing funds. 

Whoospe a misunderstanding of terms here. By disemination I'm meaning 
disseminating our reserch findings, letting the external world know 
about what we are doing. In a traditional academic grant there is a 
heavy emphesis on this, which normally means writing academic papers and 
presenting at conferences.

> How much does the conference cost?  Should we all meet at one of them?  I'm
> completely serious.  I'd rather work for free and spend our grant money on
> travel for us to meet each other ;)

Don't know. I suspect this is a pay-to-play type conference rather than 
one of the top flight academic one.
> Which reminds me of something I've been meaning to say.  Chad made the point
> recently that he'd like to take a break if we run out of money, because it was
> more fun to work for free anyway.  I'm with you, pal.  I don't enjoy
> grantwriting.  And I *do* enjoy helping out with QA, UI, information
> visualization, outreach...all of which I would gladly do unpaid.  So it seems
> pretty ridiculous to spend time grantwriting just to pay me back for
> grantwriting.  Especially if Chad doesn't mind volunteering.
>
> I would Love to discontinue grantwriting efforts, and just depend on donations
> and volunteer effort.  (If you feel you'd like to be reimbursed for your work
> thus far, you are welcome to send Scott and me an invoice.)  And then use the
> rest of our funds to travel somewhere and meet each other?

I might be up for some paid work in a little while. Currently I've a lot 
else on my plate which I need to sort out first before I can really put 
in a respectable number of hours, but watch this space...

I'm up for a meeting.

Rich