[Libre-soc-dev] Acknowledgement of your proposal SimpleV ISA Expansion Project

[David Calderwood]

Agreed, something to do as we munch our mince pies.

Let’s plan a conversation early in the week

David

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> On 16 Dec 2023, at 13:15, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> 
> ok we have acknowledgement of the *two* grant requests,
> important factor being they are looking at an *eight*
> week turnaround due to the workload (no of grant applications)
> 
> as we know the process extremely well now we need to fill
> in *all* toplevel milestones and as many subtasks as
> possible *including costing estimates* so that we are
> watertight and absolutely clear when the "questions"
> phase is due.
> 
> this "questions" phase is a filter.
> 
> if you do not respond within under 36 hours then you get
> put to the BACK of the list and may get eliminated from
> funding simply because they have a cutoff order for processing
> applications.
> 
> therefore the process of setting up the toplevel milestones
> and subtasks all with budgets proactively begins *now* not
> in 4 weeks 6 weeks or 8 weeks.
> 
> l.
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Michiel Leenaars <michiel at nlnet.nl>
> Date: Friday, December 15, 2023
> Subject: Acknowledgement of your proposal SimpleV ISA Expansion Project
> To: RED Semiconductor Ltd <nlnet_2023_simplev_expansion at libre-soc.org>
> Cc: 2023-12-059 at nlnet.nl
> 
> 
> Dear Red,
> 
> this mail serves to acknowledge receipt of your grant application "SimpleV ISA Expansion Project" (2023-12-059). The project will be carefully reviewed for eligibility in two rounds following the criteria set out here:
> 
>     https://nlnet.nl/core/eligibility
> 
> There has been enormous demand for our programmes, and things take longer than usual. We expect the first round to take about eight weeks, but given natural variation in the amount of projects and their complexity it may take longer or shorter. When the first round of review is done, we will inform you whether or not your project will be selected to enter the second round of the December 2023 call. Meanwhile, keep up the good work - and why not check out some of the wonderful projects already funded by NLnet Foundation:
> 
>     https://nlnet.nl/project/current.html
> 
> Or have a look at how you can help out with reducing the impact of software patents on the FOSS ecosystem:
> 
>     https://nlnet.nl/help
> 
> Have a good weekend!
> 
> Kind regards,
> on behalf of NLnet foundation,
> 
> Michiel Leenaars
> Strategy Director
> +31 20 8884252
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