Re: [Fsfe-uk] RFC: Free software project grants

[MJ Ray]

On 2003-10-16 20:25:47 +0100 Marc Eberhard <address@hidden> 
wrote:

> Past rejections
> of an application do not influence future decisions of the board 
> concerning
> this application.

Does this mean that past application history will not be looked at?  
It seems that it could help speed decisions if you can see whether it 
was rejected as "not directly applicable" or "nice project, but not 
enough money to fund this".

You write that process will be "open" but will applications be 
published for public comment?  I don't know whether that would 
encourage other sources of funding to look at the applications or 
discourage people from applying because they fear someone will act on 
the idea first.  Maybe some compromise needs to be struck, with a 
"public abstract" being part of the application?  How do the research 
councils handle it?  I assume that they're all private by default, 
from my memory of MRC procedure.

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