Guillaume.HORNY(a)banque-france.fr writes
> As a return, we would be fine with the Foundation's logo appearing
> on the webpage of the Archec project and the other types of support
> refereed to into the application (links to works in which the
> Foundation is involved
This is done.
> and advertising through NEP reporting emails).
There I will need to know exactly what you want to do. At the moment
all advertising opportunities are free in the sense, I have not sold
anything. I wanted to try selling from in the second half of the
year, provided, as I expected, that I loose my Russian job. Anyway,
there are two types: issue sponsorship and report sponsorship. Issue
sponsorship is for an issue, i.e. on all reports with a certain
data. Report sponsorship is more static, it would appear on the
report for many issues. The report sponsorship has some rather
stringent formatting rules that come from the way the report issues
are formatted when they are displayed in text. Issue sponsorship is
a bit freer. Since I am coming late to the reply, we can extend the
period for you to place adverts. The easiest would be for you to do
a report sponsorship for nep-mon, the text of which we could then
change to incorporate some message that you want to place. We could
run this advertising until the end of 2020.
I feel ashamed to come back to you on that part of your message so
late. When I got the award, I was ill, I got more ill until about
middle of April. By then a ton of undone work had accumulating,
including two complete server migrations, with sponsors continuing
to pay for two server as the new server was not ready. The timing of
the migration was somewhat beyond my control, it fell badly. Thus
does not excuse that I procrastinated over this.
At the danger of rambling on, I expected my Russian small job to end
in June, but it did not. I now more firmly think it will end by the
end of the year. It pays $800 a months, roughly half my current
income so it's important money from me. I spent too much time on it,
running the risk that working on it would endanger me finishing the
100 hours for Losheim. At this time, I have registered 20 hours work
done. This is coding only. I don't count time spent on sysadmin at
all, and don't count research on how to solve a coding problem, and
neither do I include time spent on examining data. Like today, I
spent time looking at 32 warc files where the headers say it's PDF
but can't find PDF in the payload, to determine what is wrong. I now
have about 29 cases left of various sorts of data that one can make
a PDF file for. I plan to store them in a particular "bedlam" folder
and provide for ways for an indexer to bring them back to life, once
I, or somebody else, can get them converted into PDF.
Anyway the forecast is that is less than 15 hours more, I will have
a basic downloader that will take proper account of multiple
full-text links and multiple historic payloads. Then the task is to
make some crude optimisation to run in more often with recent data,
and then I can start on the tricky part, i.e., the integration of
historic data. Now 20 hours may seem very little and yes, it is too
little for now, but it is good to underline that a lot of sysadmin
prep work had to be done. It's still time spent but not counted.
Again, I profusely apologise my procrastination. The good thing
is that I am procrastinating on the project itself, I feel
good about what I have done. It's pretty much free of spaghetti
code.
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Cheers,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
skype:thomaskrichel
Probably most of you will know, Losheim has been approved in the
Banque de France Foundation for Economic Research. (henceforth:
BFFER). The proposal is linked to from the homepage
http://archec.repec.org. I will copy futher corrpondance with the
funders here.
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Cheers,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
skype:thomaskrichel
