Funding Woes Lower Curtain On Theater Company
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on October 9, 2008
Jeanna Whitaker’s dream was to create art. Her goal was to create a reputable theater company.
“The problem is operating a non-profit in a for-profit world,” Whitaker said. “For the first two years, just about everything came out of my own pocket because as a non-profit, you can’t get business loans and you can’t get investors [...]
100% of TCG Project Managers Now PMP Certified
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on September 23, 2008
TCG achieved yet another milestone this week: every single one of our project managers is now Project Management Professional (PMP) certified by the Project Management Institute. Nina Preuss crossed the line (in a good way) — good job, Nina! You can read about it .
At TCG, we are committed to the best practices captured in [...]
Curtain comes down on 2008 Paralympic Games
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on September 17, 2008
The curtain has come down on the greatest Paralympic Games in history. With another medal on the final day of competition in Beijing, Team South Africa has had its most successful games ever.
Ernst van Dyk added to the country’s medal tally. He won a bronze in the men’s T54 marathon to add to the five [...]
Grants.gov seeks cloud computing solution
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on September 9, 2008
Grants.gov is seeking information from companies capable of providing a "cloud computing" solution to support its needs, as this shows:
The core business of Grants.gov is: forms (development with business rules, testing, and deployment); the data residing on or within the form; and the transmission of said data between customers (applicants and grantor agencies) via [...]
NGP September 16th agenda/registration now available
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on September 5, 2008
Click to see the agenda for the NGP's September 16th meeting and webcast. Registration details are also on this page. Topics up for discussion include:
Transition and Reauthorization of PL 106-107
Transparency Act & Subaward Pilot Update
The Partnership for Intergovernmental Management & Accountability Implementation of A-87 and Survey Results
Grants Management Certification Update
Illinois Resource Net
And don't forget [...]
The Amazing Power of Spamhaus.org
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on August 24, 2008
Recently, in addition to regular DNS-based restrictions. Thanks to Zimbra’s graphing capabilities we have a powerful visual depiction of the power of Spamhaus:
This graph displays the number of messages processed by our context-based anti-spam system over a 48-hour period (from Wednesady to Friday) where each bar represents 1 hour. The green bar is [...]
Achieve Zen About Spam with Zimbra
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on August 21, 2008
This past Monday the amount of spam hitting our Zimbra mail server (5.0.5) spiked to twice the usual amount, causing our sever to fall 15 minutes behind in delivery. While we were doing pretty well with spam blocking through Pyzor and other , the techniques were rather CPU intensive.
There are a number of options available [...]
New legislation calls for federal grants web site
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on August 21, 2008
As reported over at , one part of Senator Voinovich's new legislation is to develop a web site where grantees can track their grant applications. Clearly this is an attempt to expand the scope of Grants.gov (which was originally intended to fulfill this function, but whose remit was narrowed due to continuing challenges in [...]
TCG is on the 2008 Inc. 5000
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on August 21, 2008
Inc. magazine announced the Inc. 5000 today, the list of the fastest-growing companies in the USofA. We're delighted that TCG is on the list! (Number 1 would be better but all good things come to those who work hard…)
We believe that a large part of our 218.9% growth from 2004 to 2007 is our [...]
How open should open source be?
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on August 21, 2008
On behalf of the NIH,
The crux of the question is whether projects such as these should be developed in a completely open way — with all-comers granted access to source code, documentation, and other artifacts — or if they should begin privately and only released when ready for broader consumption. There are definitely two schools [...]