[CSL board] ACTION: senior tech grant / Fl wage]

[Dan MacNeil]

A bit of new news. The grant is setup to reimburse us for grant related
expenses. We can apply for cash advances once a month and up to 30 days
before we anticipate expenses.

> How is your bandwidth currently allocated?

20% overhead/wasted motion/restarting things/travel
25% routine inquiries / correspondence
15% day job
10% project of the moment (utec, boomer/vista grants)
10% supervising or thinking of supervision
10% learning (linux journal debian-isp listserv,openspf.org etc)
10% tech support


> [time saved not working for CS dept.]
6 hours of wasted motion, 8 hours not doing CS stuff.

> [time needed to fulfill grant]

Most of January, 15 hours a week after that doing site visits.

> How will losing the extremely competent and trustworthy
> John in a few  months and receiving an unproven VISTA
> impact your bandwidth?

It's actually a bit riskier than that. Erich is extremely self taught.
He doesn't have a HS diploma or GED. A condition of his final acceptance
is getting his GED. We will have a struggle to convince the corporation
for national service to accept him. (CNS is upstream from Paul & Peter)

We could wind up with nobody, which would be worse than somebody not as
good as John

John does roughly the same amount of tech support that I do and spends
the rest of his time on learning/helping other agencies/project. In his
absence, infrastructure improvement and maintenance would stop. I could
double up on tech support

> How's the process going? What should currently be
> underway (I think) is: advertising, publicizing,
> recruiting volunteers, and starting the process of
> scheduling.

We're not on the grant timeline, We'll probably slip 3 weeks. but I
think Mass-Serve is ok w/ that.

I've spent a fair amount of time thinking about things. The volunteer
recruiting piece is tough, but I'm in the groove after the last VISTA
push and I'm hopeful about the new magic of craig's list.

This week I want to get the CL ad posted, emails to current customers &
NPA list out, some phone calls made.

With luck Jerhico road will take the grant, turn it into a press release
and get us a story in the Lowell Sun and Boston Globe.


Josh Harding wrote:
> Link cover letter: http://thecsl.org/links/0002.pdf. The letter and
> application are both great!
> 
> Dan: A few questions -
> How is your bandwidth currently allocated?
> Do you have a mental equation for how much bandwidth will be freed by not
> working for cs.uml.edu and how much you will spend fulfilling this grant?
> How will losing the extremely competent and trustworthy John in a few 
> months
> and receiving an unproven VISTA impact your bandwidth?
> Will we need additional help?
> How's the process going? What should currently be underway (I think) is:
> advertising, publicizing, recruiting volunteers, and starting the 
> process of
> scheduling.
> 
> I definitely think using the grant money to pay you would be well spent and
> well deserved. My only concern lies in making sure that we can do a good 
> job
> on the boomer project - you're committing a significant amount of your
> already busy days...
> 
> Josh
> 
> On 12/16/06, Dan MacNeil <dan at thecsl.org> wrote:
>>
>> We need to hire a senior tech as a condition of the Boomer grant. My
>> contract with CS Dept ends Dec 31 and will not be renewed. I'd like us
>> to hire me.
>>
>> After the recent 14% Romney good-bye cut, the boomer grant budget is
>> approximately:
>>
>>         $12,600         # senior tech
>>         $2,520          # equipment
>>         $1,680          # advertising/overhead
>>
>> As a board member you should read the relatively short grant:
>>
>>         # grant
>>         http://thecsl.org/links/0001.pdf
>>         # cover letter
>>         http://thecsl.org/links/0001.pdf
>>
>> There is a meeting at the Service Allience on January 05, when we will
>> learn the details of the payout. I've (just) emailed a request for
>> unofficial word on the payout dates.
>>
>> If people are generally inclined to hire me, A board member should
>> volunteer to prepare a contract for board approval and the signatures of
>> me and our El Presidente and I
>>
>> Past staff contracts are at:
>>
>> http://thecsl.org/sys/finance.d/detail.d/contracts.d/csl_staff.d/
>>
>> David Siegal's contract is probably the best model. Given that the grant
>> explicitly has overhead taken out. $12,600 may be a good number.
>>
>> This weekend, I'll finish the financial reports. I'd be surprised if an
>> updated financial picture effects this decision very much.
>>
>> DAN DAY JOB
>> For 4 years, Tom Costello and Ken Kleiner have been kind enough to work
>> very carefully with University/Union/State rules and paid me on the high
>> end of the student worker pay scale.
>>
>> This is no longer possible. My last day of work for the CS Dept is
>> 12/31/06.
>>
>> Sometimes the Lawd-Gee-z-ass has good timing.  Assuming board approval,
>> 6 months of work for the boomer grant will pay slightly more than I will
>> have made these past 12 months. (I didn't work full-time over the summer)
>>
>>
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