Gaby, >> I will note that the NSF will not fund open source projects. >> Science can only occur if you are at a University. Sigh. > >I don't know why you are saying that, NSF certainly has been >funding many open source projects, as long as they enable or >they are part of fundamental research. Check out the projects >that made it through this program: > > http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504817
Thanks for the link. Quote from that page: "SI^2 envisions vibrant partnerships among academia, government laboratories and industry, including international entities, for the development and stewardship of sustainable software ..." Both Open-Axiom (you) and FriCAS (Waldek) are university related and university supported efforts. Axiom is pure open source with no affilations. I'm saying what I said as an almost direct quote from the person at NSF responsible for the relevant program. And from the person before that. I tried for several years. I also tried at NIST in relation to the Mathematical Handbook. I would like to see algorithms in the handbook and thought I could find funding there. The issue seems to be that there needs to be someone who can handle the receipts. At a University (e.g. CCNY where I used to work) the provost did that. Grants to your university fund students. Open source projects not associated with a university don't have the required accounting setup. I approached IBM (where I used to work) with the suggestion that they set up a very small (e.g. 2 person) "open source support" organization, not specifically related to Axiom, which had the job of receiving the NSF grant money and handling receipts. The accountants would be paid out of the grant money, similar to the way the provost took over 50% of my grant for "overhead". I also approached Texas Instruments and Hewlett Packard. I suppose I should have approached Google but my frustration level just got too high. This isn't money for programming. It would be grant money to have conferences, travel expenses, website support, and code sprints. The only direct cash payments would go to summer-of-code-like projects. It is much more costly but way less frustrating to just fund it myself. Tim Daly _______________________________________________ Axiom-mail mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-mail
