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Unconference Event: Getting funding for software projects #8

Closed tpfau closed 2 years ago

tpfau commented 3 years ago

Title of the contribution:

Getting funding for software projects

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Funding for software projects is often an issue, as they don't necessarily immediately lead to a scientific advance but can facilitate other peoples research. At the same time software tools are often cited and clearly do contribute significantly to the conducted research but it seems difficult to find funding for developing, and particularly maintaining software.

Possible discussion starters:

I imagine two fields of discussion: A: Where and how to get funding?

B: How can we get more funding for scientific software?

I hope that we can in the end generate some document that 1: Lists potential sources of funding (from small scale 2-3 month student projects) to larger scale funding. and 2: Offers arguments for public funding software projects and discusses counter-arguments which can be used as a starting point to help people argue for more funding with their respective local funding agencies.

HackMD at: https://hackmd.io/@tpfau/Funding

bast commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the great suggestion! Looking forward!

tpfau commented 3 years ago

Admittedly, I don't have a lot of ideas where to look and am hoping for either some input myself or for getting some idea on how to try and talk with decision makers that this type of "research support" needs to be funded directly, and not by getting software companies to sell stuff and paying for that...

rkdarst commented 3 years ago

Hello!

Thanks for suggesting this talk. We are getting ready for next week and are looking forward to everything.

We've prepared some hints for presenters, which may or may not be useful to you: https://hackmd.io/bPTVDi2wRl2CRfJ2YGMwrQ . You requested some help preparing, and there are some hints in there about how to get feedback. That says more, but the main options are to ask on Nordic-RSE chat (recommended), but if you want you could email me personally at rkd@zgib.net and we can take a look.

If you have any more questions about preparing, please let me know. Please register for the unconference if you haven't already, so you can get the other practical information we'll be sending soon: https://nordic-rse.org/events/2021-online-unconference/ .

rkdarst commented 3 years ago

A Zoom mentoring session for submissions will be held at https://uit.zoom.us/j/63566985867 at 13:00 CEST on Thursday 2021-06-24. We hope to see you there!

tpfau commented 3 years ago

@rkdarst Thanks again for organizing the mentoring session. I updated the description with some additional points for the discussion and potential products of the discussion so that this can be integrated into the schedule. Should I set up a HackMD for the session myself and just give you the link for the schedule?

tpfau commented 3 years ago

I created a HackMD now. Lets see if it works :)