Cycle 4: Cruz Leadership and Spectroscopy

kelle commented 7 months ago

Funding request to support my roles on the CoCo and Finance Committee and in specreduce/specutil development.

eteq commented 5 months ago

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aaryapatil commented 4 months ago

Hi Kelle,

I'm writing on behalf of Astropy's Finance Committee regarding the outcome of your recent funding request PR #396. We have opened a new issue https://github.com/astropy/astropy-project/issues/422 to track the progress.

We are pleased to be able to let you know that, following consultation with the community, we are able to approve this request. We can currently fund the Year 1 amount of $18,847.00 (US) to carry out the project. Funding beyond this amount will be contingent upon the availability of funds. (We will be using the full budgets of all of the approved requests to craft future grant and funding proposals.)

Ana Gabela and I will be your contacts on the Finance Committee to facilitate this award. Please get in touch with us if you have any questions or concerns. Please do not reach out to NumFOCUS directly.

In addition, new to this funding cycle, is the assignment of a COTR (Contracting Officer's Technical Representative) to each funded project. This concept is borrowed from government funding agencies, although it is to be stressed that Astropy's goal is to make the COTR role as low-overhead as possible. The COTR’s primary responsibility is to make sure the work is happening at the expected pace and, if necessary, to be a liaison between the funded project and the Finance Committee or CoCo. The COTR for your project will be assigned shortly and we’ll also be sending out more details about how we see this working.

The next steps are:

Subaward:

You should reach out to your institution’s grant office to identify the relevant contact for your subaward. Make sure they know that NumFOCUS is the entity they will be working with for the subaward.
When your institutional contact has communicated to you the local process, reach out to me and we will identify the specific next steps required on your institution’s end. We will also start the process with NumFOCUS.

We expect the work to be carried out in Summer 2024 between 2024-05-01 and 2024-08-31 (the “period of performance”). If you come to realize that the work will take more time than originally planned, you can apply for an extension following the procedure described at https://github.com/astropy/astropy-project/blob/main/finance/process/request-extension.md.

Congratulations --- we are really looking forward to seeing you put these funds to good use!

Aarya on behalf of the Astropy Finance Committee

astropy / astropy-project

Cycle 4: Cruz Leadership and Spectroscopy #396