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March 24, 2008
FFATA Subaward Pilot Workgroup
Much happening on the FFATA subaward front! Here’s the best way to get the latest information and get involved, courtesy of the NGP:
At our last webcast, the NGP offered to support Andrea Brandon and her FFATA Sub-Award Pilot Workgroup. Andrea…
March 18, 2008
Big Dog: $10m of your money put to good use
Big Dog is a quadruped robot developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). This thing can traverse rough territory while carrying significant payloads, which could be very useful in situations such as battle, health…
March 14, 2008
Asterisk (Evolution) and Cisco 7960 phones
Asterisk plays very nicely with Cisco 7960 phones, and we have quite a few of them. Unfortunately there are some interesting configuration issues, and I thought I’d get them all down, with explanations and workarounds.
We were having a problem where our phones,…
Grants Management Events Calendar
For a while I’ve been frustrated that there’s no one single source of information about grants management events. Between Grants.gov, the Grants Policy Committee, GMLOB, NGMA, NGP, and FDP, there’s a lot going on! So I decided to make one, and just added…
Reaching Out to Financial Assistance Stakeholders — NGMA session notes
Today I attended the NGMA lunch where Lois W. Paul of the US Fish & Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, presented “Reaching Out to Financial Assistance Stakeholders.” I was most interested in Lois’s discussion of the ways in which the Bureau has…
More on Asterisk (Evolution)
I wanted to change the email message that’s sent out when someone leaves a voicemail. The easy way would be to modify /etc/asterisk/voicemail.conf, adding the following to the “[general]” section: emailbody=New voicemail message received\n\nDuration: ${VM_DUR}\nTime: ${VM_DATE}\nSender: ${VM_CALLERID}\n\n\t\t\t\t–Asterisk\n
Of course, on Evolution…
March 11, 2008
Notes from the NGP Meeting, March 11
I managed to get the NGP meeting today and took some notes, which I thought by be useful to a few readers. (Click the link below for more.) Topics and speakers were:
OMB Update — Marguerite Pridgen
Mandatory Grants Panel — Sheldon Edner…
NGMA formalizing key grants management knowledge for certification
The Association ha contracted with the Professional Examination Services (PES) to conduct a study that will formalize the qualifications and knowledge required to be certified as a Certified Grants Management Specialist (CGMS). This demonstrates the NGMA’s commitment to creating a certification that will…
Today’s NGP Meeting: Change of Webcast address
Due to technical difficulties, the address for the Webcast of today’s NGP meeting has been changed to http://www.thengp.org/meetings/20080311/Registration.htm. Register there ahead of the event to get all of the video goodness, courtesy of Ken Fang and the good folks at Altum.…
March 9, 2008
Asterisk and Evolution
We’ve just switched from a regular VOIP vendor to an in-house Asterisk PBX with a T‑1.
The results have been good so far — we have much less delay on calls, and a heck of a lot more control over our phones and our…