[Libre-soc-dev] first stage new grants "passed", planning needed for 2nd

[Dmitry Selyutin]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 2:25 PM lkcl <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> i spoke with michiel directly by phone for 2 hours (2days ago),
> and he sent me the signed MoU and the secret URL, after he
> uploaded the JSON file (task list) for 2022-08-107 directly
> into the RFP system right there right then.

Is URL different for different members? If not, if you already have it
means you can resend it to others, and they can submit RFPs.

> no i need to check back with him, i got *some* emails from
> him in real-time on the phone (he sent them, they arrived
> immesiately) but others did not get through
> (even now). very odd.

This should be done fast. It's been an awful lot of time since we went
only for signature and an email. Yes I know NLnet is busy; but we all
are.

> we sort something out if that happens

I'm sorry, but this doesn't look like a promising and encouraging
plan. I'd like to know that we have a backup plan, especially since
NLnet is silent.

> all of the NLnet Grants i have done that, so every Grant is
> 2-way cross-referenced.

Thanks! With this document I now introduced some sketch at
https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1212.
I still have to think about the budget for each task. Meanwhile you
can think about administrative and conference budgets and probably can
add some tasks.
The more I think about the task, the more challenging it seems; I
tried to keep RISC-V support conservative and minimalistic so that we
don't run out of time.
That's why some tasks are explicitly labeled with PPC.

-- 
Best regards,
Dmitry Selyutin