Greetings meshers,
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Timeline for the NSF/Mozilla WINS grant below, followed by action items (plz read those if you intend to participate in either the Disaster Radio or People's Open submissions):
Intent to Apply (Oct 15th):
I checked back on the 'Intent to Apply' form, which is due
October 15th, and noted that the only info they required was a contact name, org name, org status, and which challenge the org is applying for - 'Both' is an option, and I'm 100% confident that's what I submitted back in August. According to the challenge rules, "Teams may submit Submissions to both Challenges and may submit more than one Submission per Challenge." So we're good on the Intent to Apply for both People's Open and Disaster Radio.
1023 Nonprofit Application (mid-October):
The next deadline is self-imposed, and that's getting Sudo Mesh's 501c3 application in the mail ASAP - I am hoping by early next week, but may be the following week since I'd like Jesse to review it and sign the Power of Attorney form. It only took the IRS ~2-3 months to send both Omni's and Sudo's exemption letters, so hopefully we'd get ours by January, when the Stage 1 prizes are announced. I'll include a letter for expedited treatment in the application, which lives currently in the Sudo Mesh google drive and is nearly complete:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4_Q7DQvNFT-MWx5bkI5MXVUYkU
All submissions must first apply to the Design Concept Stage, for which we need to submit mockups, hardware & network diagrams, and written documentation. Prizes (for $60K, $40K, $30K, and $10K[x7]) and projects eligible to move on to the Working Prototype Stage will be announced in January 2018.
Working Prototype Submission (June 22):
"Prizes will be announced in or around August 2018. Finalists during the
Working Prototype Stage may be required to provide live demos for judges
and/or a public audience at a Challenges Showcase in Summer 2018."
Action Items:
2. Choose Team Leaders: Both projects will also need to consent to someone who can serve as the
Team Leader, essentially the point of contact between Mozilla and the
project. This is ideally someone highly responsive to emails, organized
and able to stay on top of the various elements of the submissions. Happy to play this role for either or both, and can think of a number of folks who'd make excellent points of contact - just think it over and volunteer if you have the spoons!
3. Sudo Mesh board members - namely
Jake, Lesley, Marc, Andrew, and Jorritt - please write up 1-2 sentences describing your 'qualifications' (eg degrees, work experience, notable projects) into
the spreadsheet I sent you yesterday - it's a requirement of the 1023 application.
4. Everyone working on the grant team(s) should read through the
Application Submission Guide to get a sense of what kind of questions we need to respond to and documentation we'll need to write up. Consider your strengths and interests and what role you'd like to play - code dev, written documentation, use cases / user stories, design, website, some combo of the above, etc. We've already sorted roles for Disaster Radio - but
add yourself here if you'd like to work on the Peoples Open submission as well: https://hackmd.io/BwQwZgJiBMEGwFoDMSDGB2BAWArCAjAsAAzDAL4BGIAnCaiMcQKbFA==#
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I'll propose we sesh on the Peoples Open grant submission as a breakout session for next Tuesday's meeting and see if folks are down to have an extended hackathon on it sometime in the next two weeks.
<3
Jenny
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