From dan at thecsl.org  Fri Jul 10 09:35:55 2009
From: dan at thecsl.org (Dan MacNeil)
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:35:55 -0400
Subject: [Cadre-politics] [+] RFC quick turn rebel spark to flame
Message-ID: <4A5743BB.1060600@thecsl.org>

Comments?

This **very** short link, covers our clever development strategy

	http://www.uie.com/articles/fast_iterations/

Along with source code, We're going to put bugs/features on Launchpad.net:

	http://launchpad.net/mvhub

...Every month, we'll assign between 1 and n features or bugs to an
active developer and associate them with a milestone. For example you
can see what we did formally in June and released in July [*]

	https://launchpad.net/mvhub/trunk/2009-07

The "opportunity" [-] is that right now, there is a little spark of
rebellion in cadre.

Some of us want a bigger picture. As I understand the rebel reasoning,
the current approach will lead us to a fragmented redesign and a more
deliberative approach will lead to a more cohesive/integrated design.

I'm hoping to the spark of rebellion into flame and either burn down my
goofy plan or divert the flame to boiling tea water.

In more detail:

	http://www.softwarereality.com/lifecycle/xp/safety_net.jsp

Comments?

[+] "RFC" means 'request for comment" [!]

[*] Lots of stuff happened outside the tracking system. (sigh)

[-] Positive, Vaseline on the teeth, smiling people say "opportunity"
    not "problem" or "pain in the ass" See:

	http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080322111857AA1xrFF

From dan at thecsl.org  Sat Jul 25 16:54:20 2009
From: dan at thecsl.org (Dan MacNeil)
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:54:20 -0400
Subject: [Cadre-politics] grant status / schedule next week
Message-ID: <4A6B70FC.7010104@thecsl.org>


Tuesday, I'll be in Peabody working on a $75K per year for two years
grant with our partners at http://nscap.org

If we win the grant, our CSL piece will be $15K per year out of the
grant to cover labor to improve MVHub, specifically to improve
http://northshoreport.org usability and to improve the data entry
interface to allow novice youth / first jobs people to add records.

We'd be a contractor. As long as we provided the services we promised,
we could spend the money on whatever we wanted. Off the top of my head,
10K would make a couple yacht payments for our executive director and 5K
would make sure everyone else ahd beer & chapatis for lunch every day.

A big chunk of Wednesday and possibly Thursday, I'll be working w/ our
partners at http://ltc.org on a similar proposal, except we'd be
improving usability and integrating http://mvhub.com with the free wifi
network splash/login page/portal.

The BTOP grant is a big federal mess, see:

	http://www.telecommunity.us/

Fortunately, we (us, LTC & NSCAP) will just be working with the zero
divide foundation, who will be aggregating 50 programs from around the
country.

	http://www.zerodivide.org/broadband_initiative

Our application to partner with zero divide is due this thursday (07/30)
and they'll let us by Tuesday (08/04)

We're also planning to partner with Carol McDonough and Bob Forrant of
UMass Lowell's Econonmic Dept and Center for Family, Work and Community,
their BTOP grant is due 08/14, but that process isn't as clear yet.

The grant form is pretty simple, complicated only slightly because our
partners are cool, A fellow at zero divide likes me a bit, his parting
words 11 years ago were "If every volunteer was like you, we'd be done
by now."  I'm hopefull, they'll pick us to partner with.

I'm also pretty optimistic that zero divide will be funded, word is
they're connected. It looks like they had a big part in forming the
federal RFP see for example:
	http://www.ntia.doc.gov/broadbandgrants/comment.cfm?e=44A68B72-8B72-414B-AF9A-4258E0BB9286

Thanks to Gene Crick and Felicia Sullivan for turning us on to these
opportunities.

So my schedule next week is approximately:

	Monday all day
	Wednesay AM
	Thurs PM
	Fri: all day	

Lee, Sijing & other folks have keys. My cell is: 978-455-1885