Hi all,

I'm writing with some good news -- yt is now funded by the National
Science Foundation as a project in its Software Infrastructure for
Sustained Innovation (SI2) program at the Scientific Software Elements
(SSE) level!  The SI2 program is designed to fund software that
promotes scientific goals at multiple levels.  The first level, SSE,
is for a short period for a very small team, with the explicit goal of
enabling that team or project to move forward to subsequent funding to
promote the sustainability of the project over the long term.

I have accepted a position as an Associate Research Scientist at
Columbia, funded by this grant.  What this means is that my time will
be spent working on developing yt in a particular set of goals, many
of which align very well with the goals of yt 3.0 and beyond; aspects
of this will include codifying the development strategy that we've
been pursuing, as well as fostering more community interaction.

The grant proposal has been made public here:

http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.909413

There are three main components, each of which has a set of yearly goals:

 * Infrastructure
   * Year 1: Non-Eulerian
   * Year 2: Non-Cartesian
   * Year 3: Unstructured Mesh
 * Interface
   * Year 1: Data widgets
   * Year 2: Data hub
   * Year 3: Outreach hub
 * Instrumentation
   * Year 1: Fluid containers
   * Year 2: In situ library
   * Year 3: IO library

Over the coming months I'll be posting updates on the progress along
these goals, but I believe that the "Year 1" goals have already made a
considerably amount of progress.  These main components will be
driving my work over the next few years, which means emphasis on
supporting additional codes, data exploration widgets, and supporting
simulation infrastructure.

A main aspect of the grant, which is noted at some length in the
proposal, is to continue developing community around yt -- through
running office hours, bootcamps, fostering contributions and
continuing to grow the strong community of users and developers we
already have.  I am proud of the work we've done, and I hope we will
continue to grow and flourish as a community.  I will be spearheading
this, including setting up weekly office hours on G+ Hangouts and
pursuing a more directed educational strategy.  If you're interested
in this, I'll be sending out an invite soon!

I am optimistic that this may be a gateway to continue securing
funding to for yt, and I am quite excited by the possibilities.

I hope you're all having a good semester, and I'm excited to keep
working with you all on this.

Best,

Matt
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