MacInTouch: More on Grants.gov
If you’re a Mac user seeking federal grant funds, there’s more on the Grants.gov issues at MacInTouch:
The reader is correct that all of Grants.gov’s instructions for using the Citrix solution are wrong, that the Citrix client configuration file doesn’t even work by default (and the fix also isn’t documented), and has serious aesthetic problems, such as being set to 800×600 resolution by default, which is almost unusable for submitting a grant application package. [...]Also, the Grants.gov solution also requires the user to download and install the Citrix ICA Client separately on their own. The download is a zip file, which needs to be uncompressed to a dmg, then opened, and then a package installer requiring administrative privileges needs to be run. Some users can’t easily follow all of these steps, and may not have the permissions on their machine to do so. Additionally, since the client file and documentation is all wrong or misleading, the solution is unworkable for most people, and the CIO of HHS itself has even said as much.
The University of Wisconsin’s solution uses the Grants.gov Citrix server, but is correctly documented, with proper screenshots every step of the way….
More about this yesterday.