I'm still in India this Friday morning and getting ready to pack in case I need to move to a different hotel. They are booked solid here, but I'm holding out some hope that there will be a cancellation so I can keep my room for a couple more nights.
We've come a long way with the proposal. I spent much of Wednesday and part of yesterday working on the second draft -- writing new sections, re-writing the stuff I wrote before, and reorganizing some of the material written by other people. Yesterday afternoon we had a review meeting. Everyone seemed very pleased with the progress that's been made to date. The one thing I need to do now is to format the document to make it easier for people to review. I didn't have time to do that yesterday, but everyone agreed that it is needed before a more intensive review can take place. So I will be working on that today and/or tomorrow. We're just talking basic formatting here with clearly lettered/numbered subsections so that the structure is more obvious.
What we've got now is a 50-page technical section of the proposal. Eventually it will need to be condensed to approximately 25 pages, since the page limit for the entire proposal is 45 pages. But right now we're not concerned with that because we're focusing on content and substance.
Once I've sent out the draft again with better formatting, each of the three organizations that are working on this proposal here will do an intensive review of what's been written. Various people in each organization will read it, make changes, comments, additions, etc. Then I will get back three new versions that I'll have to combine into one. We talked about doing a round-robin on the document so that I would end up with only one new version, but that won't work due to people's schedules, an upcoming holiday here in India, and other factors. It makes things a bit more complicated and time-consuming, but that's the way it needs to be done for now.
Time for some breakfast.
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