On Thursday, 1 October 2015 19:40:30 UTC+2, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > > On Thursday, 1 October 2015 01:41:03 UTC-7, Volker Braun wrote: >> >> On Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 8:13:05 AM UTC+2, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >>> >>> call these jobs WIMI (that's the right German abbreviation for a >>> research fellow, IIRC), and not engineer. >>> >> >> "Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter" >> >> Still, one year is not enough to do the work, publish, and use that for >> the next application round. So its carer suicide. Ok we've already >> established that this might only appeal to people without career ambitions. >> > > Bill, > > if you think that ODK money is going to waste this way, perhaps you might > consider giving it to another ODK party, to hire someone to do work for > you remotely. >
That's definitely something I hadn't considered. Of course deciding whether that is possible is out of my hands. Professors and HR depts only have a say about such things in Germany (not a problem for me, it saves me doing a lot of paperwork, as I'm not a professor). I will definitely run this past someone at KL in case we need to go down that route. As an absolute last resort, it seems to me that giving the money to another ODK party rather than giving it back entirely is certainly more appealing. I'm still hopeful it won't come to that. > > Incidentally, my HR appears to be telling me that they made a clerical > error, and as of today the only funding I have is the ODK funding, and it's > 50% time funding (that's how much > I asked from ODK). They sent me a letter last year, that appeared to be a > contact extension, and they say it was a typo in the date. I am still > trying to see what this means... > Ouch, that sounds pretty awful indeed. Do keep me updated on how that turns out. > > Not that I can do a super-duper GPU programming for you (at least not > immediately), but at least I can write and debug C code :-) > The main problem I can see would be if we were responsible for delivering the deliverables and it became difficult to communicate with someone working remotely. It's quite likely I will spend a considerable quantity of time explaining what I know and going through planning stages for that project with the person who ends up doing it. That's clearly easier to do in front of whiteboard in my office than via email. Anyway, as I say, I'm not able to make those sorts of decisions either way. Bill. > > Dima > > > >> >> If you think the work can be done in 3 months then hire a contractor. 90 >> * 600 is probably still below your budget. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
