[IPython-dev] [jupyter] Fwd: [sage-devel] European Horizon 2020 project OpenDreamKit accepted

[Brian Granger]

Yes, many congrats on this. Very exciting to see this moving forward
and expanding the European side of funding for this ecosystem.

Cheers,

Brian

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> congrats to the OpenDreamKit team, who did an amazing job with an insanely
> competitive grant application. We're delighted to be able to collaborate
> with them, and look forward to having our EU-based operation grow :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> f
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Nicolas M. Thiery <Nicolas.Thiery at u-psud.fr>
> Date: Tue, May 19, 2015 at 2:47 PM
> Subject: [sage-devel] European Horizon 2020 project OpenDreamKit accepted
> To: sage-devel at googlegroups.com, sage-combinat-devel at googlegroups.com
>
>
>         Dear Sage developers,
>
> We are delighted to announce that the Horizon 2020 research proposal
> OpenDreamKit was accepted by the European commission:
>
>         opendreamkit.org
>
> Starting next Fall and for four years, this project will provide
> substantial funding to the open source computational mathematics
> ecosystem, and in particular popular tools such as LinBox, MPIR,
> SageMath, GAP, Pari/GP, LMFDB, Singular, and the IPython/Jupyter
> interactive computing environment.
>
> The total budget is about 7.6 million euros. The largest portion of
> that will be devoted to employing an average of 11 researchers and
> developers working full time on the project in Europe. We will
> announce job openings in the coming weeks; stay tuned!
>
> Additionally, the participants will contribute the equivalent of six
> other people working full time. Altogether the project involves about
> 50 people spread over 15 sites in Europe.
>
> This is a formidable recognition of the strength and maturity of this
> ecosystem, of the power of open source development models, and of the
> amazing hard work of many communities over the last decades.
>
> The writing of the proposal itself was open and collaborative. It grew
> out of a reflection on the long term needs of the community. It
> benefited considerably from the feedback of many; we would like to
> thank all those who helped shape this proposal and make it happen.
>
> It is our hope that this financial support will help push forward
> critical technical tasks. We tried hard in the proposal to make a
> worthwhile selection of such tasks, within some constraints imposed by
> the specific call. We are now legally committed to treat those tasks
> in priority. This kind of long term prediction work is tough: one of
> them has actually already been completed by the community in the mean
> time! This is great; whenever this will happen we will be able
> reprioritize the resources to whatever emerging needs that will arise.
>
> Ultimately, this project belongs to the community. Get involved!
>
> Cheers,
>                                 Nicolas
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