Anyone able to help the NSF out at a meeting in DC in Jan? See below for more info.
On a personal note I've noticed an increased, and genuine, interest in how to improve the impact of publicly funded research outputs from the NSF in the last couple of years. We are even seeing important components turning up in the Incubator. I hope we can send someone able to help them understand how we do things around here. It's your (US) tax dollars going into this work. I'd normally do this myself but I have a clash on these dates. Let me know privately if you are interested and I'll help you/them figure out who the best fit is. Ross Sent from my tablet ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "James Howison" <jhowi...@ischool.utexas.edu> Date: Nov 30, 2012 9:31 PM Subject: Advice on inviting Apache insight to NSF SI2 meeting? To: "Ross Gardler" <rgard...@apache.org> Hi Ross, I'm organizing a panel at an upcoming meeting for the PIs of all the projects funded by the SI2 funding program at the NSF (SI2, or SI^2, is the main Scientific Software funding program at the moment). The panel is going to focus on Software Impact, and I'd like to have someone who can inject an understanding of the importance of community, including Incubator considerations such as non-salaried developers etc. We're also considering adopting the DOAP way of describing the projects and their infrastructure as a way of helping projects and the program overall catalogue their activities. The meeting is in DC in January Jan 17 and half-day 18th. Does anyone from Apache come to mind (including yourself) that would be relevant either with experience in Incubation, or from the DOAP/catalogue. Do you think your experience with SIMAL would be relevant here, might you be interested? Best regards, James Howison -- James Howison Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig)
