It was yesterday.  If you like listening to someone read a PowerPoint presentation, slides not scrolling automatically, and find testimonials convincing (like a GWB "townhall" meeting), you'd have loved it.

CH

At 10:24 AM 3/10/2005, you wrote:
>I forgot to mention  there is a webcast about G.g today at 11am est
>go here
>http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=11256&s=1&k=C759A231D90C42F2939152CD48738CF
>
>live questions -- Why not Mac? for example
>
>Bob
>xxxxxx@umich.edu
>
>
>
>On Mar 9, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Richard Magyar wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>Has anyone come across a submission in which using the new grants.gov
>process was MANDATORY?
>
>My understanding was that the grants.gov system would be phased in
>gradually, with only voluntary participation for at least the next year or
>so.  Imagine my surprise when we found out that our latest DOE grant
>REQUIRES the grants.gov submission mechanism.
>
>The problem, for us, is in the software grants.gov requires us to use.
>The
>�PureEdge� viewer is incompatible with Macintoshes, and the company
>developing that software (PureEdge Solutions) has no plans to ever create a
>Mac solution.
>
>They recommend using VirtualPC, which is awkward and unreliable workaround.
>
>I�d originally hoped that grants.gov would mature as a service in the next
>year or so, and eventually expand it�s support to  multiple platforms.
>"Fastlane" is a good example of exactly that kind of success through
>graduate service roll-out.
>
>But if we are all to be required to use this new service more-or-less
>immediately, then waiting for the bugs to be worked out will NOT be an
>option.
>
>
>Anyone else in the same boat?
>Anyone have any insight on grants.gov or solutions to these platform issues?
>
>
>--
>Thanks for your time,
>
>Rich Magyar
>Systems Administrator
>Eastern Michigan University
>Graduate Studies & Research
>734-487-3090
>xxxxxx@emich.edu
>
>
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