Please critique this!! So this is roughly framework of package I move with 10-25 researchers ( 4-10 Professionals, 6-15 Students) At lower end, I would probably try to hire people to make up larger effort. This is federal funding moved of about $1-1.5M per year I would agree to lower salary than I now get. I would request "named" professorship with perhaps $50K discretionary fund Your School has necessary business staff (Admin Assistants, Contracting) Need access to this. (Currently NPAC Business office has 3 people to service 20 professionals and 30 students -- it is weak in many areas such as outreach, technical writing) So school staff needs to expand. I think a good resource is "electronic information person" who can put all our work on the web. (As opposed to web master who runs Web Server) I would request recognition as "Tier 3 Distance Learning" effort which I can expect to be part of FSU instituional efforts as "research/technology evaluation/development arm". This implies FSU would likely fund some activities as part of university initiatives. I would request 2 faculty I can "hire" (rules to be discussed with you) I would request 2 FSU funded FTE's to be core of software teams I would request significant enhancements to your school's computing infrastructure. This would be server resources needed to service staff Client machines for staff. Special machines for Web Servers, Databases, Data Storage. I would like a PC (teaching) Lab for testing distance learning and delivering lectures. Natural servers are 2-4 Processor Sun or Compaq machines. Would need a PC backend cluster for computing research. We need a PC/UNIX cluster for general student use. (Fulltime long term students should have their own dedicated machine) Estimate that would require $500K start up for hardware plus FSU support of systems staff (3 people -- NPAC has one wonderful senior lead Markowski who also teaches/runs distance learning expts etc, 1 PC and 2 General Systems people. Also 1 Webmaster. Total is 4.5) I need to specify special features of these machines but do not care if somebody else runs basic things like backup etc.