Re: Agenda for Monday meeting.

[Barry Clark <bclark@aoc.nrao.edu>]

I'm a bit ambivalent about a fancy preparation tool/parsable coversheet.
I've considered it several times for the VLA, and always decided against.

Every proposal deadline, a secretary spends three or four days typing things
in, and I spend another three or four days typing things in and proofreading
what she has done.  With a fancy tool this would not go to zero, though it
would be substantially reduced.  So the potential time saving is about a
week per deadline, three weeks a year.  I'm guessing something in excess
of half a man-year to implement the thing.  The ten year breakeven is a 
rather slower payback than other things I do.