Michael,

There are a few pictures of me in my photo gallery which I believe is linked to on my Wikipedia user page. Here you go: http://www.br1an.net/alterego/ As you can tell I like photography and I travel a lot. I am also a Journalist in the Navy stationed in Naples, Italy. I work on my Admiral's staff so perhaps I am a little desensitized to working with rank as well as people I don't know well (or at all, most of the time). In addition I am attending UoMaryland European Division (just working on my requirements, it's hard to be in the military and school).

So, I don't think I am your bird, (but I do have a picture of a pigeon in my gallery). I was asked to help out with the Staff section and I did my best considering the time constraints. I received a rather decent lambasting publicly and privately for my effort. My apologies.

Here is a segment of e-mail I sent to Anthere:

"I think it would be a wise move to take one of the Board members or Bureaucrats and put them in charge of keeping a grant file on hand. Some sort of generic representation of things normally asked for in a grant application that could easily be modified. You would also need to make this person responsible for standing a Grant Watch. What grants are commonly divvied out that we would qualify for and what are their deadlines and how often? A calendar could be put on WikiMedia for this."

So perhaps we won't get this grant application in on time, but perhaps we can in the future. In regards to resumes, we should probably have someone keep some on file. They are going to be needed in the future.

If I can be of any help, just let me know. For now I am ducking out. I will forward anymore correspondences regarding resumes to Danny.

Brian

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Given the increasing costs of hardware in Mav's report, it seems as if we have to begin taking drastic measures to keep up to speed withour growth. One possibility is that we begin compiling a snail mail list of potential donors, to whom we begin sending out solicitations. Donation requests would be small ($5-$50), but this might provide some income over the coming months. Of course, printing and postage would be costly, but this would be an initial investment with hoped-for returns. Costs would include printing of a letter, postage, and a postage-paid return envelope and form.

While I am not enthralled with this idea, it does work with other charities. What do other people think?

Danny