Dear Sage-Combinat developers, I am preparing a grant application around Sage and combinatorics for the French national research funding agency (ANR). Roughly in the same spirit as the NSF grant we got for the USA. This e-mail is thus mostly relevant for developers in French laboratories (which includes CNRS labs abroad like LaCIM; yes, Franco, I mean you in particular).
The selection process goes in two rounds. For the first one, one needs to send a short (5 pages) application file before October 23rd. There is already some preliminary stuff written at: http://combinat.sagemath.org/misc/file/tip/grants/2013-10-14-ANR/descriptif.tex There is very little experience in our community about getting funding for software development, especially from the ANR; so it's all kind of a bet. Also there is still some flux on what's the best strategy, in particular about the right perimeter for the grant in terms of themes and consortium. Feedback is very welcome. I have made a first round of contacts last week to get a feeling and am now enlarging it. If you are potentially interested in participating (and did not yet do so), please send me a short e-mail in the following format: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Institution \item First name Last name (position, section, percentage of potential implication) Past contributions to Sage. Features you would like to contribute to the development of. Topics in your research that would get impacted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See the end of the above latex file for a bunch of examples. At the end of the day, I'll cut a consortium out of the answers I will get, putting some people officially in, and others in the "network of collaborators". That cutting will be rather arbitrary based on feedback I'll get from higher authorities to optimize the odds of acceptation. Nothing personal, nothing really scientific :-) Also the cutting might evolve after the first round of selection (if we are selected) depending on the feedback we will get from the referees. Thanks in advance! Cheers, Nicolas -- Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net> http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-combinat-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-combinat-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-combinat-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
