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

[Fernando Perez]

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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Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <nthiery at users.sf.net>
http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/

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