[Noisebridge-discuss] grant writing

[Walter Funk]

Fiscal Sponsorship can help manage the money, there are many organizations offering such help. They usually take a cut of the money, but this is so they can pay for the costs related to the sponsorship, not a greedy grab.

~Walter


--- On Mon, 12/14/09, alexhandy <alexhandy at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: alexhandy <alexhandy at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] grant writing
> To: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
> Date: Monday, December 14, 2009, 2:42 PM
> Good points from Andy and Christie
> both. This is barely a grant, and more like a contest.
> 
> I'm sure there will be strings, and there will probably
> also be a long, winding process, if we were to get the
> money, around what would be going on with the money. But the
> way they presented this was that the money just needed to be
> used to fund the creation of a news-media research project.
> And the way I was wording this proposal, it would manifest
> as an Amazon Web Services Hadoop cluster, and some checks
> written out to developers who contribute to Hadoop and
> perhaps a new Apache project on top of Hadoop.
> 
> 
> Let's talk tomorrow night, Andy.
> 
> 
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