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June 3, 2008

NGP Meeting, June 10th 1.30pm-3pm

The National Grants Partnership is holding its next meeting on June 10th in downtown DC. The agenda includes Terry Hurst and Andrea Brandon discussing the Transparency Act subaward pilot, which should be quite interesting!  We’re taking over the NGP web…
June 2, 2008

Our Social-Networking Government

Recently I attended the Web Managers Roundtable here in DC for the first time. (I can’t link to it because I can’t find it on the Web: It doesn’t have a Web site!) The Roundtable is managed by Julie Perlmutter, who wears a tiara…
May 27, 2008

SF424 form changes in Federal Register

[Thought I’d posted this last week; apparently not!]  The changes to the SF424 form set have been posted to the Federal Register. You can review them here:  SF424 R&R — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10797.htm SF424 Mandatory — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10796.htm SF424 A — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10798.htm SF424 B…

New Federal Grants System to Eliminate Confusion, Bureaucracy For State and Locals

While doing some research on an entirely unrelated topic, I happened upon this article from 1998: New Federal Grants System to Eliminate Confusion, Bureaucracy For State and Locals. It profiles the U.S. Electronic Grants System (EGS), a forerunner to the Federal Commons…
May 21, 2008

Recovering a Slightly Corrupted Zimbra OpenLDAP Directory

Zimbra uses OpenLDAP for its directory, and after way too much fiddling with domains, we ended up corrupting our database.  There was a partial “.net” entry in our LDAP that we couldn’t remove.  So, we decided to dump the LDAP contents…
May 19, 2008

SF424 form changes in Federal Register

The changes to the SF424 form set have been posted to the Federal Register. You can review them here:  SF424 R&R — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10797.htm SF424 Mandatory — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10796.htm SF424 A — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10798.htm SF424 B — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10795.htm SF424 C –http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10794.htm SF424 D —…
May 15, 2008

FDP: Update on GMLOB (Take 2!)

This was the second session about GMLOB, and while the majority of the time in this session was spent looking at NSF’s Research.gov, it also included representatives from Education and NIH.…

FDP: Good restaurants near the Fair Lakes Hyatt

This is the first time that the FDP meeting has been held in this part of the world. I live quite close to this location, so I thought a quick list of good local restaurants may be useful! So here it is, in…

FDP: GMLOB Update

Erika Rissi and Stacy Boyd spoke about the new GMLOB strategic landscape. Some interesting developments here, including the new GMLOB Strategic Landscape.…

Reducing Spam Blowback Bounce Messages in Zimbra

With our company’s move to the Zimbra mail server finally complete (and working very well), we noticed an sudden increase of a particular type of spam: fake bounce or mail server error messages.  This was surprising since our old mail and…