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This provides a total of $CAD 31,023 to develop a set of educational
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resources around packaging scientific software and to make them available
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through Learn Astropy [5]. We hope this marks the start of a long-term
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collaboration between Astropy and the Dunlap Institute.
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collaboration between the Astropy Project and the Dunlap Institute.
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[4] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z-mV4YjkHyc6Xe645mO8kkjYlQC6rfgz/view
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[5] https://learn.astropy.org
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- NASA has announced a call for proposals for “Support for Source Tools,
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Frameworks, and Libraries” [6] as part of the ROSES-2020 [7] funding
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programme. According to the call, they expect to award a total of $1.5M (US)
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spread over 5–10 different projects. This is a fantastic opportunity for
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Astropy! Over the next few weeks, the Interim Finance Committee will aim to
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coordinate a proposal. For now, we invite you to use astropy-project #161
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[8] to start brainstorming your ideas.
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spread over 5–10 different projects. This is a fantastic opportunity for the
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Astropy Project! Over the next few weeks, the Interim Finance Committee will
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aim to coordinate a proposal. For now, we invite you to use astropy-project
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#161 [8] to start brainstorming your ideas.
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[6] https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=%7b958CF134-D655-E512-B5AD-84501D14A0C1%7d&path=&method=init
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[7] https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=%7bBCEE336B-D550-CCBA-1C8C-7A866DB06F45%7d&path=&method=init
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[8] https://github.com/astropy/astropy-project/issues/161
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- As previously announced [9], the bulk of our funds available for supporting
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core developers this year have been allocated to core contributors who were
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interested in and able to accept funding. Statements of work for all of
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these positions have now been finalized, and are available online [10].
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Folks are hard at work, and the Finance Committee has been processing and
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approving invoices and NumFocus has been issuing payments.
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core developers this year have been allocated to the following core
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contributors who were interested in and able to accept funding: Jan Luis
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Cano, Lia Corrales, Kelle Cruz, Derek Homeier, Stuart Littlefair, Stuart
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Mumford, Adrian Price-Whelan, Thomas Robitaille, and Ole Streicher.
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Statements of work for of their positions have now been finalized, and are
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available online [10]. They are hard at work, and the Finance Committee has
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been processing and approving invoices and NumFocus has been issuing
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payments.
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[ 9] https://groups.google.com/g/astropy-dev/c/qlNMpLpnPXI
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[10] https://github.com/astropy/astropy-project/issues/113
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- The next major project the Interim Finance Committee plans to undertake as
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part of the Moore grant is to issue a broad call for proposals for projects
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to make improvements to any part of Astropy, including the core repository,
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coordinated and affiliated packages, infrastructure, tutorials, workshops,
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etc. In an effort to limit the burden on the community of large-scale
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governance and planning discussions, we play to release this call after the
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ongoing discussion over APE0 [11] has concluded. Before we release the call,
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the community will have the chance to discuss the process we will use for
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selecting proposals.
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to make improvements to any part of the Astropy Project, including the core
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repository, coordinated and affiliated packages, infrastructure, tutorials,
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workshops, etc. In an effort to limit the burden on the community of
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large-scale governance and planning discussions, we plan to release this
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call after the ongoing discussion over APE0 [11] has concluded. Before we
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release the call, the community will have the chance to discuss the process
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we will use for selecting proposals.
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[11] https://github.com/astropy/astropy-APEs/pull/61
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For more information on our activities, please see the issues labelled
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“finance” in the Astropy project repo [12], or read the notes from our weekly
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“finance” in the astropy-project repo [12], or read the notes from our weekly
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meetings [13]. You can make suggestions for things that need to be funded by
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opening an issue in https://github.com/astropy/project/, by emailing
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[email protected], or by joining us in the #finance-committee channel on

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