ABI logistics

[Karen Cranston]

As we start to formalize this proposal, there are some overall
structural issues that we need to address.

* Lead institution. We are going to submit this as a collaborative
proposal and need a lead institution. With a major component of this
grant focused on user engagement and community building, I propose
that NESCent / Duke be the lead institution here with Hilmar and I as
Co-PIs. NESCent can leverage our existing Informatics team, our
experience with CI projects, our experience hosting and facilitating
meetings and the huge number and diversity of scientists that visit
the center. We also benefit from Duke's off-campus overhead rate,
which is <30%.

* Budgets. We need to move quickly in estimating the required
resources for programmers, salary support, meetings, equipment, etc. I
will start a new document for this and share with the group.

* Title: This needs to be in place as soon as possible. The title we
used in the original pitch was "Towards a comprehensive,
community-owned and sustainable repository of reusable phylogenetic
knowledge".

Thoughts? Anything else?

Karen

p.s. BTW, we asked NSF about support for non-US personnel (i.e.
Rutger). Sounds like this is not impossible. We would need to write a
strong justification for why we need him specifically into the budget
justification, and then negotiate with the program officers if the
proposal is recommended for funding.

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[William Piel]

On Jun 15, 2011, at 1:45 PM, Karen Cranston wrote:

p.s. BTW, we asked NSF about support for non-US personnel (i.e.
Rutger). Sounds like this is not impossible. We would need to write a
strong justification for why we need him specifically into the budget
justification, and then negotiate with the program officers if the
proposal is recommended for funding.

Spending travel funds on Rutger is not a problem, right?  In terms of compensation, when Rutger was based in Canada he was paid as a consultant -- so that option is still available assuming that he stays abroad and has a job that is less than full time, so needs an extra source of compensation.  Else, he could return state-side as a post-doc or staff person (e.g. at NESCent). Another option it to try to coordinate some EU money to dovetail with NSF, e.g. connected with the BioVel project. 

bp

[Karen Cranston]

Travel funds are not a problem, and do not require special
justification if used for non-US personnel. Salary (in whatever form)
does require attention in the budget justification.

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