Funding for the SciML Small Grants Program

[ChrisRackauckas]

Project

SciML

Summary

Funding for use in the SciML Small Grants program, which is a organization-run granting opportunity similar to a bounty system but which fosters greater collaboration towards high-priority projects.

submitter

Christopher Rackauckas

project lead

@ChrisRackauckas

Community benefit

The SciML Small Grants project is a bounty-like system which brings in new students and developers to the open source ecosystem by targeting small funds towards specific high-impact but easy to pick up projects. Unlike common bounty programs, the SciML Small Grants enables cooperation and collaboration by requiring participants to declare projects ahead of time, granting a 1-month exclusivity window in order to ensure projects are not "sniped". This declaration has to be done ahead of time, allowing the committee to check participant background to ensure the funds are used to getting new contributors into the project. Many of these projects are cross collaborative with other NumFOCUS organizations, such as projects to build better wrappers of SciPy into Julia's Optimization.jl.

Amount requested

1600

Execution plan

All of the rules for the execution of the program are described on the SciML Small Grants website https://sciml.ai/small_grants/ . Many previous successful small grants have been administered through the NumFOCUS OpenCollective system, and thus the plan will be to use these funds as more in this pot to continue this successful program.

[ChrisRackauckas]

Please prefer #13 over this one.