Well you mentioned "Thread support for Julia" and I could imagine that there are academic partners that could work on this if they could get funding.
The problem with finding a postdoc that does software development is indeed tricky. Usually this will not be full time but people will work on a scientific topic and write software "because it is needed". There are various people around Julia that work this way. Best example is Jeff who made his Phd while developing Julia. The fftw library was also developed as part of a research work. Cheers Tobias Am Freitag, 22. April 2016 01:32:51 UTC+2 schrieb Sheehan Olver: > > > Maybe I don’t understand what you mean by “academic partner”, but I can’t > imagine academics jumping at the chance of working on someone else’s code… > > There is also a problem with including a postdoc with the expectation of > her/him carrying out basic software tasks: time spent on software > development is not really a help getting an academic job. > > So the consulting model seems like a good alternative, I’ll look into it. > > > > > On 22 Apr 2016, at 1:52 AM, 'Tobias Knopp' via julia-users < > julia...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > An alternative would be to instead make a collaboration with an academic > partner that is capable of working on this. There are various large open > source projects that use this model. > > Cheers > > Tobias > > > Am Donnerstag, 21. April 2016 16:56:57 UTC+2 schrieb Steven G. Johnson: >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 11:58:02 PM UTC-4, Sheehan Olver wrote: >>> >>> Has anyone included "Julia Computing" charges in a grant proposal? Is >>> this something that should be encouraged? >>> >> >> That would count as hiring a consultant with your grant funding. Some >> funding agencies allow this (e.g. NSF allows it in the USA), others may >> not. See e.g. the NSF guidelines ( >> http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf14001/aag_5.jsp -- >> scroll down to "Consultant Services"). >> >> I've seen this kinds of thing in grants a few times. You generally get >> a "letter of intent" from the consultant indicating what they will do and >> their fees. >> >> Seems like a great thing to do if you can do it, but I would only expect >> it to be possible in a small minority of grants --- you need to make a >> convincing case that the consulting is essential for the core goal of the >> research project, and that hiring a consultant is more cost-effective than >> doing it in-house. >> > >
