I'm working on it. One of our internal systems is down right now for
its regular weekly maintenance. Unfortunately, I need that system to
finish delivery of the accept/reject notices. It is due to be back up
about one hour from now.
It is 4:40am for me. That system won't be back until 5:30am. I'm
feeling a bit of pain, too :-P
I understand your frustration and am doing everything I can to make
this work, as soon as possible.
> I'm working on it. One of our internal systems is down right now for
> its regular weekly maintenance. Unfortunately, I need that system to
> finish delivery of the accept/reject notices. It is due to be back up
> about one hour from now.
> It is 4:40am for me. That system won't be back until 5:30am. I'm
> feeling a bit of pain, too :-P
> I understand your frustration and am doing everything I can to make
> this work, as soon as possible.
I have a personal request to whoever is the boss of you and Chris, please give Chris and Greg two weeks off for their hard work. Only require them to answer email from home for 3 hours or so a day, so they can catch up on small work. But it is obvious they work all kinds of overtime, they definately deserve some time to sit back and relax for a little bit.
Greg Stein wrote: > I'm working on it. One of our internal systems is down right now for > its regular weekly maintenance. Unfortunately, I need that system to > finish delivery of the accept/reject notices. It is due to be back up > about one hour from now.
> It is 4:40am for me. That system won't be back until 5:30am. I'm > feeling a bit of pain, too :-P
> I understand your frustration and am doing everything I can to make > this work, as soon as possible.
So we're recieving the answer by email?
Could you at least create some kind of algorithm so we can know if we're
rejected/accepted using our email address as incoming values?
That's what we wanted
hehe... you know I've thought about it :-) But it might come back a
bit sooner, and I also have some testing that I can do in the
meantime. So no sleep for me...
Greg Stein wrote: > hehe... you know I've thought about it :-) But it might come back a > bit sooner, and I also have some testing that I can do in the > meantime. So no sleep for me...
> I have a personal request to whoever is the boss of you and Chris,
> please give Chris and Greg two weeks off for their hard work. Only
> require them to answer email from home for 3 hours or so a day, so they
> can catch up on small work. But it is obvious they work all kinds of
> overtime, they definately deserve some time to sit back and relax for a
> little bit.
:-) Thanks, man. Our boss is named Bill. I might pass this along, but...
You know... even tho SoC has been kickin' my butt for the past couple
weeks, it's _great_. How can a guy complain about a job where you get
to give people two frickin' *million* dollars? I mean... wow. I love
my job.
I've been working with/on Open Source for ten years. It's something
that I really care about and like doing. And to get to do it for my
job? And to enable hundreds of students to learn about it? To be
introduced to the community? To what all this means? Oh yeah. You've
got no complaints from this department.
That said, when I get these emails delivered, and get home [from
Seattle] later tonite, you can better believe I'm hitting the hot tub
with a really, *really* LARGE martini :-)
> Greg can you give us some primitive statistics about the results, and
> what 419 means ??
Chris was monkeying around... there were a LOT of great proposals, and
the orgs really wanted one more here and there to get that extra
proposal done. So we fudged it a bit and are doing a bit more than
400. Chris wanted a prime number, so it was 409 or 419, but bah... I
rounded it to 410.
I don't have any real stats right now. Just want to get the emails out
to everybody that is waiting. I'll probably do some stats on Monday or
Tuesday. I can think of country breakdown, but what did you have in
mind?
good job.. really nice of u to have decided the final SOC participants in such less time.
but greg said "regular maintenance" so maybe some1 should have foreseen the delay!
anywayz, it was a great wait for all of us.. fun actually, reading the speculations and stuff in this group!! let all SOC applicants accept this: that it WAS good fun, something we wouldnt have got if we had the results earlier.
It would be very interesting to do something that related the time
people sent requests and if they got accepted/rejected. I supose the day
before last ones requests would be the best.
> I don't have any real stats right now. Just want to get the emails out
> to everybody that is waiting. I'll probably do some stats on Monday or
> Tuesday. I can think of country breakdown, but what did you have in
> mind?
Stats by university? by age? For me it would be interesting, but I
cannot speak for the rest :)
Greg, lots of thanks for staying awake for us, and also thanks for
Chris and you for your time and your cares.
I would like to have a work like yours :D
>...
> but greg said "regular maintenance" so maybe some1 should have foreseen
> the delay!
You'd think, yeah... but "Down Saturday ..." means later today for me.
Sure, it *is* Saturday morning after all, but I think of it as late
Friday night. So it never crossed my mind. And certainly, Mr Computer
System doesn't agree with me... :-(
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