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# Gary as PI for the Covid19 Grant

Hey Gary,

On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 9:20 PM Gary Hall <gary@garyhall.info> wrote:
> I'm open to the idea of being named PI on projects if that helps win
> them. However, I always feel bad about it, as I'm not really able to act
> as an actual PI too much, because of everything else I get asked to do
> as director of the centre.It's frustrating, as I'd really much rather
> be spending that time on projects exploring ideas of messy media etc.
> But it is what it is - for the time being, anyway, until I get a chance
> to move sideways or whatever and give someone else a go.

I feel there are good reasons to have you as a PI: it can help win the grant and it keeps at least some hope that we will not lose our good people to the administrative world. Ideally, we get a grant and we keep the hope you get back to the project(s).

We hope we will have more opportunities to explore future collaborations  with Mel, Kevin and others. I briefly read Kevin's book "Hackers & Slackers" and it seems very good - it does fill the void in the historiography that is relevant for our research (e.g. the things going around Bob Stein's and his research on the future of the book). The same goes for Mel's research and I hope we get a chance to see if they would like to join any of our endeavours. Let's see.

To sum up here: we would like to have you as a PI and go back with that info to Giorgina. Is that ok?
Best
Marcell & Tomi
