The deadline for this has been extended to June 5. If anyone is interested in applying please reach out to me by the end of next week.
Aaron Meurer On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 2:53 PM Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > > NumFOCUS has opened round 2 of their small development grants. This round > they have increased the amount from $5000 to $10000. > > NumFOCUS small development grants allow funding NumFOCUS projects, such as > SymPy for work. Each project may submit at most one grant proposal. > > If anyone is interested in applying for this grant to do some work on SymPy, > please reach out to me. In the past, we have used these grants to pay people > to do maintenance work and to pay people to develop some features. > > I have included the details below. If you are interested in applying, please > reach out to me about it by May 27 so that we will have time to create and > submit a proposal to NumFOCUS. > > Timeline: > > Deadline for Proposal Submission: June 3, 2022 > > Projects will be Notified: July 15, 2022 (or sooner) > > > Available Funding: > > $66,000 plus $21,000 (discretionary) up to a maximum of $87,000 > > Up to $10,000 per proposal > > > Eligibility: > > Any NumFOCUS Fiscally Sponsored or Affiliated project may submit one proposal > on behalf of the project per grant cycle. > > If you wish to solicit proposal ideas from your project community, the > project leaders must organize their own review process to select the proposal > that the leadership will put forward to NumFOCUS. > > Funding can be used for: code development, documentation work; website > updates; workshops and sprints; educational, sustainability, and diversity > initiatives, or other types of projects. > > Proposed work must be achievable within the 12 months following the award. > > The call is open to applicants from any nationality and can be performed at > any university, institute, or business worldwide (US export laws permitting). > > > Funding Distribution: > > For fiscally sponsored projects only, NumFOCUS can deposit the grant funding > directly into the project’s account. The project would then submit invoices > through the usual channels (i.e. Rocket) to pay the grant expenses. > > NumFOCUS can set up an independent contractor agreement with an individual or > company. > > NumFOCUS can award the money as a grant or subcontract to a student or > postdoc at a university (depending on the university's rules). > > NumFOCUS can directly pay for expenses associated with the grant (e.g. > booking flights on behalf of project leaders to attend a workshop, per diems > for travel days) > > Aaron Meurer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6%2BRdTdYQTYZD3wXYP55Xm9_hQN50%2B%3Dh4qhFP10TD5K5Jw%40mail.gmail.com.
