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@eteq eteq commented Jun 23, 2025

Adds a section to the roadmap that the strategic planning committee felt was missing from the roadmap, centered around ensuring we have funding to support funded work.

@eteq eteq changed the title Add funding section Roadmap: add funding section Jun 23, 2025
@eteq eteq force-pushed the add-funding-section branch from a559810 to af9e050 Compare June 23, 2025 16:54
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LGTM.

The broad goal in this section is to ensure Astropy has funding to support development that volunteers cannot or will not do on their own funding. To ensure project sustainability, this needs to be funding sources that can be maintained over the long term.

- :red_square: Raise funds from governmental sources outside of the US
- :large_orange_diamond: Raise funds from private foundations to give us independence from political vagaries.
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Just throwing out some alternative verbiage. Not sure if better or worse.

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- :large_orange_diamond: Raise funds from private foundations to give us independence from political vagaries.
- :large_orange_diamond: Raise funds from private foundations to give us independence from geopolitics.

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pllim commented Jul 2, 2025

What is the next step here? Does CoCo make the final decision? Or is it Strategic Planning Committee now?

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eteq commented Aug 25, 2025

@pllim - at the coordination meeting I think we all assented to the idea of the Strategic Planning Committee taking ownership of the roadmap, which means the committee should do it (we just discussed this now in the committee and agreed)

@eteq eteq force-pushed the add-funding-section branch 2 times, most recently from 15b23f3 to fd24689 Compare August 25, 2025 18:25
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eteq commented Aug 25, 2025

Alright, I had to do some silly conflict resolution, but I think this has addressed all comments and is ready to merge.

@kelle kelle merged commit 6f2a5ce into astropy:main Aug 25, 2025
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