[Pandas-dev] NASA Funding opportunity

[Ralf Gommers]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 3:59 PM Andy Ray Terrel <andy.terrel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>

Agreed that this is a good fit.

Jeff reached out to me and it looks like we'd want to aim for a combined
NumPy, Pandas, SciPy proposal. We checked in with the program manager, and
a combined proposal would be good - and save a lot of energy on proposal
writing time.

I was planning on giving the contents of the letter or intent a push today.
Andy, we could use your help - experience with NASA will be valuable here.
Want to collaborate on this?

Cheers,
Ralf



> -- 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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