The purpose of this project is to explore and pursue grant applications for the ecosystem of open source computational and database software for pure mathematics and applications (GAP, LMFDB, Linbox, Pari/GP, Sage, Singular, ...), in order to get funding in Europe for:

• Full time developers, students, etc working on those general purpose technical tasks that don't fit well in the "developed by users for users" model and thus can't be funded indirectly through usual research grants.
• Workshops (e.g. Sage Days, Pari Days, joint Sage/Singular days, ...) for development and training, smaller developers meetings, training sessions, travel, visits, ...
• Hardware and computational resources (e.g. cloud),
• Possibly: subcontracting to other projects,
• Possibly: buying teaching relief, partial funding of senior researchers to work on software aspects, ...
• Possibly: postdocs with e.g. strong computational or software design research topics,
• Fostering collaboration and symbiosis within and between software components and developer communities.

At this stage, we are preparing two grant applications:

• A European H2020 application for the call EINFRA-9: e-Infrastructure for Virtual Research Environment, with a small consortium, with main focus on funding developers.
  • Draft of proposal
  • README
  • Mailing list
• A COST network targeting a wider consortium.

• 8-9 September 2014: Preparatory meeting
• Meeting report
• December 15th of 2015: H2020 proposal basically finished
• January 14th of 2015: H2020 proposal submission
• March 24th of 2015: Cost Proposal submission
• September 2015-: Tentative start of H2020 project, for four years

At this point, the consortium is final for the H2020 proposal, but not for the Cost network. If you are tentatively interested in participating, please join the mailing list, and send an e-mail there with:

• Name, e-mail
• Status, institute
• trac & github account if you have them
• Whatever ideas you may have for the proposals

We will add you to the collaborators on this githup project so that you can start editing the information. In particular, check and edit the information in the COST consortium .. and target feature files.

You are welcome to explore other opportunities for grant applications, centered for example on teaching, ...

• Current draft of H2020 proposal
• Information about the H2020 call and ToDo list This is best viewed/edited using org-mode
• Tentative consortium for the COST network

• Original thread on sage-devel
• A draft of big picture
• A draft of mind map (Sources to be edited with freeplane)