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On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 09:19:19AM -0700, chromatic wrote: > On Wednesday 07 July 2010 at 03:59, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > > > 1) give some money to TPF that might later be used somehow. > > > But probably won't. > > > TPF doesn't structure its grants programmes as "invitations to tender" for > > specific tasks. booking.com's donation sat unused for 14 months. A significant > > chunk of NLNet's grant for Parrot work sat unused for a couple of years, > > IIRC. > > The Parrot grant money sat *ungranted* for a while as no one had completed the > relevant milestones. I consider that specific grant from NLNet effective from > the grantor side even as the grantee descended briefly into a degree of > organizational confusion. My point was that there was quite a time where milestones existed, but no-one was assigned to them - ie that the existence of money does not solve a recruiting problem. [Which every company *should* grasp, as most of them express their frustration at the difficulty of hiring staff] Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next