Merge pull request #194 from dhomeier/DH-Proposal

Funding 2021: Work proposal Derek Homeier

Author: jdswinbank

finance/proposal-calls/2021-proposal/Derek_Homeier.md

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+### Project team
+
+Derek Homeier
+
+### Project Summary
+
+Continue role as astropy core maintainer, specutils contributor and responder
+to support and contributor's issues
+
+### Project / work
+
+#### Continue role as astropy core team member.
+
+- Participate in telecons as appropriate.
+
+- SOC member of and participant in 2021 coordination meeting;
+  will continue as co-organizer for the second meeting block (May 2021).
+
+- Participate in Roadmap and HPC working group.
+
+#### Continue role as astropy.io.ascii maintainer.
+
+- Ensure continued functionality and potential extension of C interface wrt.
+  new architectures.
+
+#### Support for Software Operations in responding to support requests:
+
+- Monitor Facebook Python in Astronomy group, Slack channels, mailing list and Github issues
+  for questions in need of response, identifying potential assignees.
+
+- Review PRs especially from new/first time contributors.
+
+#### Contribute development in other subpackages, including, but not limited to:
+
+- astropy.modeling: API documentation; clarifying use of models when operating
+  on sampled vs. binned data, as kernels for convolution etc.
+
+- astropy.io.fits; spectral data formats and WCS-related issues
+
+- astropy.cosmology (no current maintainer)
+
+#### Contribute to specutils development
+
+- Identify specutils-specific work packages in the Spectroscopy Roadmap and work
+  on them.
+
+- Connection to more advanced analysis and modeling capabilities, e.g.
+  [lineutils](https://linetools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
+
+- Further improved support of file formats, in particular beyond FITS.
+
+### Budget
+currency: US $
+
+- Salary: allocating 2 hours weekly each for support and development tasks,
+          assuming holiday times will be offset at other times: 4 * 52 hours @ $120 / hour
+
+- TOTAL: $24,960