Re: problems accessing today's Stakeholder's webcast Bob Beattie 16 Apr 2008 13:23 EST

The program will be archived tomorrow.  The presentation has most of
the good info
http://www.grants.gov/assets/shpresentation04162008.pdf

The new timeline was discussed, and the file above shows when
agencies are "supposed" to come into Adobe.  Note NSF and NIH in
December.  There was a definitive statement that Adobe Professional
8.1.2 was authorized to use.  A good question came up about using
different appropriate Adobes on different platforms (Reader with Mac
then to Pro on Non-Mac, for example), and this was given the ok.

Various enhancements were noted.  The one of putting the Grant Number
first in the message subject line was first brought up at the 2006
NCURA meeting as a top 10 needed change.  That is some progress :)
Now can we get the Application Filing Name in each message?

Lots of questions about what version of Adobe to use. Over and over,
Reader AND Professional 8.1.2.  Good news about Pro.   Michael stated
that Adobe Reader 8.1.3 is coming out in June and they will test it.

There should be fewer wrong version of Adobe being used, but there is
a way to test that the one you have will work.  What would be nice is
to test for corrupt files prior to submission, but not available.
Many statements about getting applications into the system a few days
prior to the deadline.  It can take 48 hours to find that a file has
validation errors.  Maybe some organization will submit a really big
application on the day of the deadline, or even day before, and it
will be corrupt and they find out too late to fix.  We need a "Poster
Child" of the Late Proposal  to help convince the PI's that they need
to go a bit earlier than the last day.

There was mention of a "System Enhancement Request Form" on the site,
that can be used to request fixes/improvements.  This is the first
time I recall hearing of a willingness to take requests in a
systematic way.  I could not find the form, however :)

The discussion was worth listening to.

Bob
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On Apr 16, 2008, at 1:45 PM, Kerry Nare wrote:
Tried that. I finally gave up, installed Windows Media Player (which
I already had, but not my default) and was able to access it about 12
minutes.  It apparently didn't "like" Realplayer, although I use it
for other things.

Kerry

 >>> Bob Beattie <xxxxxx@UMICH.EDU> 4/16/2008 10:16 AM >>>
try copy and paste the address into your browser.  You must have a
viewer program available
Bob
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Robert Beattie
Editor, eRA Corner, NCURA Magazine
UMich e-Business Point of Contact
UMich Grants.gov Liaison
Managing Senior Project Representative for Electronic Research
Administration
Division of Research Development and Administration
University of Michigan
xxxxxx@umich.edu   (734) 936-1283
Learn more about Grants.gov @ UMICH
http://www.research.umich.edu/era/grants_gov/

On Apr 16, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Kerry Nare wrote:
Anyone else having problems accessing the url for today's
Stakeholder's webcast?

I'm getting:

Invalid host string in requested URL:

rtsp://mms:/a779.l3426636778.c34266.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/779/34266/
v0001/reflector:36778

no matter which link I click on. I've sent an email to
xxxxxx@grants.gov, but no reply so far..

Kerry Nare

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