[Grants-discuss] Question -- Indirect costs?

[Steve Graham]

I am a faculty member at a university. If I submit a grant proposal to go  
through the university, the grants office will add a percentage to the  
budget for indirect costs.

These are the costs to the university of providing an infrastructure to  
support research. This includes such things as the network and computer  
infrastructure; the human resources infrastructure (supporting pay and  
benefits for student and faculty) and so on.

Does the Python Software Foundation have a postion on such costs? Should I  
submit a proposal as a faculty member and under the auspices of the  
university? Or would the PSF prefer submissions as an individual, without  
the indirect costs and so on?

The advantages of not going through a university are avoiding indirect  
costs and bureaucracy. The disadvantage of not going through the  
university would be the inability to use university resources for the  
grant research and that the infrastructure the indirect costs support are  
still needed (i.e., the computer and networking infrastructure, the time  
and effort to comply with government regulations if an employee is hired  
to work on a project).

I have more than one idea for a proposal, but I'd like to submit them in a  
form the PSF prefers -- with or without the university association and  
indirect costs.

cheers,
skg