[Pandas-dev] NASA Funding opportunity

[Andy Ray Terrel]

Hi all,

The NASA grant will require a Notice of Intent submitted this Thursday. I
think Pandas has a high likelihood of being accepted as it is right in line
with the work being proposed. How should we proceed? A zoom call or some
other mechanism? Really need to identify who would be funded and what
activities would be proposed. Really seems they don't want new features per
se but things that make the software more stable.

-- Andy

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 12:02 PM Andy Ray Terrel <andy.terrel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> FWIW, NumFOCUS is running a few grants with NASA right now. I can
> definitely help with a proposal.
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 9:45 AM Tom Augspurger <tom.augspurger88 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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