[Gmod-help] Fwd: DowAgro Indianapolis Contract to set up CHADO/Gbrowse database

[Dave Clements]

Hi all,

GMOD is used in the corporate world but I don't think there is enough
demand to keep a full time person busy.  I'd lean towards sponsorships
for meetings and hackathons just because I imagine the accounting is
easier and then no one's job depends on it.  I dunno.  I have no
experience with cooperative (or exclusive) corporate grants.

Dave C.

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Don Gilbert
<gilbertd at cricket.bio.indiana.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Dave,
>
> please feel free to contact Mindi at DowAgro if you feel like a quick
> trip to Indianapolis, with my note (I sent her mail saying I was asking
> around).
>
> Do you, or should you start, to make contacts w/ such companies on
> the subject of hunting up a joint GMOD contract that could pay for
> a new full time database-installer/teacher/troubleshooter?  Maybe a
> letter to several companies asking if they have interests in such consulting.
>
> At a guess it won't be simple to find the right people, or time, as with Mindi Dippold,
> the need appears in a short time frame to a few people, not necessarily as part
> of the company's informatics agenda.  If you didn't hear from companies
> at this last PAG conference, maybe the level of interest isn't high enough.
>
> - Don