[Pandas-dev] NASA Funding opportunity

[Tom Augspurger]

Hi all,

NASA has a new CFP that's focused on supporting existing open-source
projects.
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=%7b958CF134-D655-E512-B5AD-84501D14A0C1%7d

1.1 Motivation
Open source software tools, libraries, and frameworks play an increasingly
prominent
role in SMD-related science research and applications. As the adoption of
open
software accelerates the rate of scientific discovery, the National
Academies’ has
recognized the growing need among the NASA science community to provide
sustained
support and maintenance of these types of software in their 2018 report
Open Source
Software Policy Options for NASA Earth and Space Sciences. This program is
designed
to provide support to the sustainable development of open source software,
tools,
libraries, and framework that are critical for SMD scientific objectives.

1.2 Objectives
SMD seeks proposals for the improvement and sustainment of high-value, open
source
tools, frameworks, and libraries that have made significant impacts to the
SMD science
community. We are seeking proposals that satisfy the following objectives:
• Open source software tools, libraries, and frameworks that have
significant
usage in the NASA science community, developed following open and
collaborative practices, and are aligned with the scientific vision and data
strategic plan of SMD.
• Proposals should look to improve the sustainability and utility of these
packages
through improvements to adding extensions, documentation, infrastructure,
and
maintenance of the software.
This program seeks to support projects under active development and usage,
and it
does not support updating of legacy software that is no longer supported,
which can be
supported under other calls. We are not soliciting the development of new
open source
tools, frameworks, or libraries with this call.

I'm not sure exactly what our chances to get funded will be compared to
projects more squarely in the science domain, but this may be worth
pursing. Is anyone interested in collaborating on a proposal?

Timeline, we'd file a notice of intent by November 19th, and the proposal
by January 19th.

Tom

Tom
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