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June 9, 2008
NGP Meeting June 10th: New conference call passcode!
The passcode for tomorrow’s NGP meeting has just changed: It’s now 1–800-857‑2613 passcode 8885674. Please make a note!…
June 4, 2008
June 11th: Transparency Act Subaward Pilot conference call
The NGP has organized another conference call to discuss participation in and progress regarding the subaward reporting requirement of the Transparency Act. Get the details by clicking below, or click on the event in the Grants Management Event Calendar to…
June 3, 2008
NGP Meeting, June 10th 1.30pm-3pm
The National Grants Partnership is holding its next meeting on June 10th in downtown DC. The agenda includes Terry Hurst and Andrea Brandon discussing the Transparency Act subaward pilot, which should be quite interesting!
We’re taking over the NGP web…
June 2, 2008
Our Social-Networking Government
Recently I attended the Web Managers Roundtable here in DC for the first time. (I can’t link to it because I can’t find it on the Web: It doesn’t have a Web site!) The Roundtable is managed by Julie Perlmutter, who wears a tiara…
May 27, 2008
SF424 form changes in Federal Register
[Thought I’d posted this last week; apparently not!]
The changes to the SF424 form set have been posted to the Federal Register. You can review them here:
SF424 R&R — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10797.htm
SF424 Mandatory — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10796.htm
SF424 A — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10798.htm
SF424 B…
New Federal Grants System to Eliminate Confusion, Bureaucracy For State and Locals
While doing some research on an entirely unrelated topic, I happened upon this article from 1998: New Federal Grants System to Eliminate Confusion, Bureaucracy For State and Locals. It profiles the U.S. Electronic Grants System (EGS), a forerunner to the Federal Commons…
May 21, 2008
Recovering a Slightly Corrupted Zimbra OpenLDAP Directory
Zimbra uses OpenLDAP for its directory, and after way too much fiddling with domains, we ended up corrupting our database. There was a partial “.net” entry in our LDAP that we couldn’t remove. So, we decided to dump the LDAP contents…
May 19, 2008
SF424 form changes in Federal Register
The changes to the SF424 form set have been posted to the Federal Register. You can review them here:
SF424 R&R — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10797.htm
SF424 Mandatory — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10796.htm
SF424 A — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10798.htm
SF424 B — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10795.htm
SF424 C –http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10794.htm
SF424 D —…
May 15, 2008
FDP: Update on GMLOB (Take 2!)
This was the second session about GMLOB, and while the majority of the time in this session was spent looking at NSF’s Research.gov, it also included representatives from Education and NIH.…
FDP: Good restaurants near the Fair Lakes Hyatt
This is the first time that the FDP meeting has been held in this part of the world. I live quite close to this location, so I thought a quick list of good local restaurants may be useful! So here it is, in…