Re: [Treebase-devel] ABI proposal for phyloinformatics

[Hilmar L. <hl...@ne...>]

It looks like a response from NSF is still pending. There is not a lot  
of time left until the submission deadline, and I'll be out of  
commission for at least 7 days during that time starting Wed next  
week. So I suggest we start planning and get together independently of  
the NSF response to hash out over a conference call possible  
contributions and commitments. Here's a Doodle poll for scheduling.

http://www.doodle.com/8zvwbidtxm9gzxcp

To make sure that we can have a relatively targeted discussion, my  
suggestion would be that everyone who is willing to play a role in  
this proposal enter their availability, and come prepared for the  
following questions:

1. What aims would a proposal need to have to for you to commit to be  
part of it, and conversely, what aims should it not have. (Ideally,  
the aims would be from either pitch A or pitch B that Karen sent to  
NSF for feedback.)

2. What aims, expertise, and partners are we missing from the group.  
Do you have suggestions for how to pull those in.

3. What role are you interested in playing, for which aim(s). What  
kind and how many resources do you anticipate requiring support for to  
accomplish those aims.

At the end of this, ideally we have a concrete sense for whether there  
are 0, 1, or 2 proposals that are viably going to come together, what  
size of proposal(s) we are talking about, who would take  
responsibility for what, and who else we need to reach out to.

Comments / suggestions / additional items for the enumeration above  
welcome.

	-hilmar
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