Roadmap: add funding section #469
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taldcroft
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| ## Fund Raising | ||
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| The broad goal in this section is to ensure Astropy has funding to support development that volunteers cannot or will not do on their own funding. To ensure project sustainability, this needs to be funding sources that can be maintained over the long term. |
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| The broad goal in this section is to ensure Astropy has funding to support development that volunteers cannot or will not do on their own funding. To ensure project sustainability, this needs to be funding sources that can be maintained over the long term. | |
| To ensure project sustainability, the Astropy Project needs funding sources that can be maintained over the long term. |
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| - :red_square: Raise funds from governmental sources outside of the US | ||
| - :large_orange_diamond: Raise funds from private foundations to give us independence from political vagaries. | ||
| - :green_circle: Maintain existing funding sources (e.g., NASA) |
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I would suggest keeping the roadmap very neutral.
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| - :red_square: Raise funds from governmental sources outside of the US | |
| - :large_orange_diamond: Raise funds from private foundations to give us independence from political vagaries. | |
| - :green_circle: Maintain existing funding sources (e.g., NASA) | |
| - :red_square: Raise funds from governmental sources outside of the US. | |
| - :large_orange_diamond: Raise funds from private foundations. | |
| - :green_circle: Maintain existing funding sources (e.g., NASA). |
pllim
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| The broad goal in this section is to ensure Astropy has funding to support development that volunteers cannot or will not do on their own funding. To ensure project sustainability, this needs to be funding sources that can be maintained over the long term. | ||
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| - :red_square: Raise funds from governmental sources outside of the US | ||
| - :large_orange_diamond: Raise funds from private foundations to give us independence from political vagaries. |
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Just throwing out some alternative verbiage. Not sure if better or worse.
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| - :large_orange_diamond: Raise funds from private foundations to give us independence from political vagaries. | |
| - :large_orange_diamond: Raise funds from private foundations to give us independence from geopolitics. |
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What is the next step here? Does CoCo make the final decision? Or is it Strategic Planning Committee now? Thanks! |
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Adds a section to the roadmap that the strategic planning committee felt was missing from the roadmap, centered around ensuring we have funding to support funded work.