Re: john schwartz

["Aaron Swartz" <xx@aaronsw.com>]

let me know if there's something you need me to IM clay about; he's
always responsive to that

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Carl Malamud <xxxxxxx@media.org> wrote:
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> On Jan 7, 2009, at 7:01 PM, Aaron Swartz wrote:
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>> Makes sense. Clay is very good at sidelining Greg, if you need it, and
>> usually pretty good about keeping off my back. But yeah, I insisted on
>> a commitment from them not to project manage before I took the money.
>
> With me, they (e.g., funders) try to get me under control as a condition of
> doing business ... I'm cheap talent.  :)   A lot of these folks think i'm
> bus. dev./marketing/admin and not technical and think that only if I had
> better guidance things would be great.
>
> Clay didn't answer my email for a while then got offended when I mentioned
> he wasn't answering my email (and I put a smiley face on that message!).
>  I'm trying to understand where they are on federal register, but I can't
> dig that information out of him or his people.  :<  I'm considering trying
> to get that $17k raw federal register feed under the theory the sgml is
> close to what the CFR stuff we have.
>