[Foundation-l] Re: NEH Grant résumés

[email protected] wrote:

>There are a few pictures of me in my photo gallery which I believe is
>linked to on my Wikipedia user page.  Here you go:=20
>http://www.br1an.net/alterego/  As you can tell I like photography and I=
 travel a lot.
>I am also a Journalist in the Navy stationed in Naples, Italy.  I work o=
n my Admiral's staff so perhaps I am a little desensitized to working wit=
h rank as well as people I don't know well (or at all, most of the time).=
 In addition I am attending UoMaryland European Division (just working on=
 my requirements, it's hard to be in the military and school).
>
Thanks for telling us a little about yourself, Brian. It helps overcome=20
the barrier some of us may feel because we haven't had a chance to=20
observe or interact with you before.

>So, I don't think I am your bird
>
Yes, I think it's probably safe to conclude that you aren't User:Bird.=20
It's just your choice of Alterego as a username, combined with the fact=20
that Bird and some other disruptive people here have a habit of misusing=20
sockpuppet accounts, that made me suspicious.

>(but I do have a picture of a pigeon in my gallery)
>
Indeed, from my experience with some of the sites you visited, I would=20
be surprised if you managed to take all of those photographs entirely=20
pigeon-free.

>I was asked to help out with the Staff section and I
>did my best considering the time constraints.  I received a rather
>decent lambasting publicly and privately for my effort.  My apologies.
>
Likewise, my apologies for contributing to the lambasting. I was trying=20
to warn people on the list of my concerns about sharing this kind of=20
information with someone we don't know, rather than condemning you for=20
making a good faith effort to help. In the rush created by the grant=20
deadline, you got put in a difficult position. Your calm response to the=20
problems this created is commendable, and should make it easier for=20
people to trust you more in the future. I hope you will not hold this=20
experience against us, and continue contributing to the project in=20
whatever way you can. We have a principle of "not biting newcomers", but=20
sometimes we're not as good at that as we should be.

>So perhaps we won't get this grant application in on time, but perhaps w=
e can in the future.  In regards to resumes, we should probably have some=
one keep some on file.  They are going to be needed in the future.
>
I agree, all of the work put into this grant application needs to be=20
preserved for future applications. For any r=E9sum=E9s we've collected, w=
e=20
should keep them unless the individual in question requests that we not=20
do so.

By the way, it would still be nice if you don't reply to this list by=20
including a copy of every message in the digest, since it wastes a lot=20
of space.

--Michael Snow