[jmillikin]

  > The humorous part of all this is that the page describing
  > the process, states quite clearly it will take about 2
  > months to make a decision.

I'm not on the corporate network right now, but if I remember correctly, the page actually says that the wait will be up a month and usually shorter. Two months would definitely be unexpected.

Also, there seems to be something mildly broken somewhere in the process. After I submitted my project, I waited a month with no word before contacting cdibona privately -- he told me that my project had already been approved. A month after that, I received an approval email. So even if the process is fast from your perspective, it may seem very slow from the perspective of the applicant.

[DannyBee]

So the page now says a month, you are correct and I am now apparently wrong :P.

I have edited to state that if you don't hear from us, to please ping us. It doesn't change the fact that in spencer's case, he had a method for certainty, and it would have taken far less time. Getting approval for special things (what he asked for is something that the committee explicitly, in bold, on the page, says it does not generally do.) does take more time.

It's also not like we meet in some secret star chamber-esque fashion (those meetings are not monthly). He could have checked my calendar to see when the next meeting was :).

Your case is a bit weird, from what I see. Your project was approved, but the notification date is wrong. I imagine cdibona broke the script that sends out emails, and didn't notice/run it again until the next meeting, so you ended up with a month late notification. As I said, I edited the page to make it clear folks should ping us instead of wallowing in silence.