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July 16, 2009
A Rising Star is among us — congratulations to Rich Renomeron!
One of TCG’s senior technical staff, Rich Renomeron, has been honored as a 2009 Rising Star by 1105 Government Information Group, publisher of Federal Computer Week, Washington Technology, and other government IT industry publications. From the announcement…
Now in its fourth…
July 15, 2009
Have I moved to California?
Grants.gov held its latest webcast (I believe) at 1pm today. So how come I got an e‑mail inviting me to attend that webcast at 1.44pm?
Answers in the comments, please……
GAO releases new Grants.gov report; recommends changes
Today GAO has released a report called “Grants.gov Has Systemic Weaknesses That Require Attention”; you can grab it here. The report highlights spell out some serious flaws in the governance, funding, design, and operation of Grants.gov, which are reasonably well known…
July 10, 2009
NGMA offering federal grants online training
It’s late on a Friday, so of course I’m posting grants management news to the blog. What? You mean you don’t post information about the business of grants at the start of the weekend?!
Anyway, the NGMA announced earlier this week…
OMB ARRA guidance webinars in two weeks
As posted over at the NGP blog…
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Recovery, Accountability and Transparency Board have announced that webinars will be held the week of July 20,2009 to provide information on implementing the guidance…
July 8, 2009
Importing Microsoft Project into GForge 4.6 (Open Source Version)
With the latest open source version of GForge (4.6), thanks to a new CSV import system and a little bit of work (a custom export map and Perl script) you can now import a Microsoft Project file into GForge!
Step 1: Prepare and…
July 7, 2009
GSA funds new Grants.gov pilot
According to this posting on FedBizOpps, GSA is giving Symplicity Corporation some funds “to acquire a pilot that will facilitate the need to support the efforts of the Recovery Act of 2009 and rebuild and possible deployment (sic) of a working pilot…
June 2, 2009
More on Asterisk and IntuitiveVoice Evolution
Want to change the conference line access number in Asterisk/Intuitive Voice Evolution? It’s not all that easy if you don’t want the conference line to be something not in the 14000–15000 range.
We like to have a nice long conference line…
June 1, 2009
NGMA lunch canceled
The NGMA training lunch at which Dominic Sale, the OMB GMLOB Portfolio Manager, was scheduled to speak has been canceled. Apparently things are so hectic at OMB that it’s proven impossible to schedule any appropriate time.
The next NGMA lunch…
May 29, 2009
NGP Meeting — June 9th — be there!
The agenda for the NGP’s June 9th meeting has been announced. Register at , and join us at 1.30pm at the Department of Education at 550 12th Street SW, Washington, DC, or via webcast at https://www.tcg.com.acrobat.com/thengp.
GAO Study of Grants.gov…