[yt-dev] NSF funding for yt

Anthony Scopatz scopatz at gmail.com
Fri Jan 24 09:35:21 PST 2014


Congratulations Matt!  This is superb news!  I promise to buy you a tasty,
possibly coffee-based beverage later today :)

The weekly meetings are a great idea, btw.  They have really helped on some
other projects.


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm writing with some good news -- yt is now funded by the National
> Science Foundation as a project in its Software Infrastructure for
> Sustained Innovation (SI2) program at the Scientific Software Elements
> (SSE) level!  The SI2 program is designed to fund software that
> promotes scientific goals at multiple levels.  The first level, SSE,
> is for a short period for a very small team, with the explicit goal of
> enabling that team or project to move forward to subsequent funding to
> promote the sustainability of the project over the long term.
>
> I have accepted a position as an Associate Research Scientist at
> Columbia, funded by this grant.  What this means is that my time will
> be spent working on developing yt in a particular set of goals, many
> of which align very well with the goals of yt 3.0 and beyond; aspects
> of this will include codifying the development strategy that we've
> been pursuing, as well as fostering more community interaction.
>
> The grant proposal has been made public here:
>
> http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.909413
>
> There are three main components, each of which has a set of yearly goals:
>
>  * Infrastructure
>    * Year 1: Non-Eulerian
>    * Year 2: Non-Cartesian
>    * Year 3: Unstructured Mesh
>  * Interface
>    * Year 1: Data widgets
>    * Year 2: Data hub
>    * Year 3: Outreach hub
>  * Instrumentation
>    * Year 1: Fluid containers
>    * Year 2: In situ library
>    * Year 3: IO library
>
> Over the coming months I'll be posting updates on the progress along
> these goals, but I believe that the "Year 1" goals have already made a
> considerably amount of progress.  These main components will be
> driving my work over the next few years, which means emphasis on
> supporting additional codes, data exploration widgets, and supporting
> simulation infrastructure.
>
> A main aspect of the grant, which is noted at some length in the
> proposal, is to continue developing community around yt -- through
> running office hours, bootcamps, fostering contributions and
> continuing to grow the strong community of users and developers we
> already have.  I am proud of the work we've done, and I hope we will
> continue to grow and flourish as a community.  I will be spearheading
> this, including setting up weekly office hours on G+ Hangouts and
> pursuing a more directed educational strategy.  If you're interested
> in this, I'll be sending out an invite soon!
>
> I am optimistic that this may be a gateway to continue securing
> funding to for yt, and I am quite excited by the possibilities.
>
> I hope you're all having a good semester, and I'm excited to keep
> working with you all on this.
>
> Best,
>
> Matt
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