NumFOCUS small development grants 2023 round 1 CFP

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Aaron Meurer

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Feb 3, 2023, 5:41:15 PM2/3/23

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NumFOCUS has opened 2023 round 1 of their small development grants.

NumFOCUS small development grants allow funding NumFOCUS projects, such as SymPy for work. We are allowed to 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. Note that unlike GSoC, this would not be mentored work, so we will only accept proposals from people who are already active SymPy contributors. If you are interested in doing a *mentored* project, I encourage you to apply to the upcoming GSoC program.

I have included the details below. If you are interested in applying, please reach out to me about it by February 24 so that we will have time to create and submit a proposal to NumFOCUS.

Timeline:

Deadline for Proposal Submission: March 3, 2023
Projects will be Notified: April 14th, 2023 (or sooner)

Available Funding:

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., Open Collective) 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)