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• cat herder may be available (Score:2)

  by jmm (276)

  As long as the recent proposal for TPF to fund Richard Dice for 6 months is approved, the cat herder post is already covered.  That would make this an auspicious time to provide funds for numerous small projects.  (Of course, I'm just assuming that Richard will want to have his time be volunteered in this fashion - you'd of course have to discuss it with him.)
  • Re:cat herder may be available (Score:2)

    by domm (4030) on 2009.05.21 13:38 (#68724) Homepage Journal

    For reference: http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/continued_review_of_tpf_grant.html [perlfoundation.org]

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    • Re: (Score:2)

      by nicholas (3034)

      As long as the recent proposal for TPF to fund Richard Dice for 6 months is approved, the cat herder post is already covered.

      For reference: http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/continued_review_of_tpf_grant.html [perlfoundation.org]

      Actually, if I read that revised proposal correctly, the cat herder post is not covered, as the first 6 months are now tied directly to 1 2-month and 4 1-month deliverables. So, unfortunately, the positions of "project manager", "line manager", "mentor" and "recruiter" are still vacant.
      • Re: (Score:1)

        by RichDice (5762)

        Nick is correct - my original proposal had room for this kind of work but the new version of the proposal that the TPF board wanted is much more tightly focussed. Though in theory I still have the latitude to help with some of these items, to the degree that I spend time on them I will jeopardize success on my grant deliverable items, as time given to that work will take away from from working on deliverables. As such, I don't plan on doing this kind of work again, at least over the next 6 months. (This