[SnapPea-planning] funding?

[Genevieve Walsh]

I'm not sure what is going on with the funding (I'm a little out of the loop
on this) but doesn't this sounds like us?  I keep thinking that the snappea
project should be funded in a major way, and by the NSF (isn't this the kind
of thing they should be doing?) Note bullets 1 and 2 (and 3) below.

This is a new influx of money from the stimulus.

Genevieve.


   1. *MRI-R2 <http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09561/nsf09561.htm#mri22>
Program
   Purpose and Goals*

The primary purpose of the
MRI-R2<http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09561/nsf09561.htm#mri22>
program
is to facilitate scientific and engineering research and research training
through the acquisition or development of research instrumentation.
Therefore, the MRI-R2<http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09561/nsf09561.htm#mri22>
program
will not support the acquisition or development of instrumentation used
primarily for standard science and engineering education courses, or for
general purpose instrumentation that does not have a common or specific
research focus.  Other uses of the instrumentation may serve to facilitate
the broader impacts of the project.

Proposals to the
MRI-R2<http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09561/nsf09561.htm#mri22>
program
should conform to one or more of its goals:

   -

   Supporting the acquisition of major state-of-the-art instrumentation,
   thereby improving access to, and increased use of, modern research and
   research training instrumentation by scientists, engineers, and graduate and
   undergraduate students;
   -

   Fostering the development of the next generation of instrumentation,
   resulting in new instruments that are more widely used, and/or open up new
   areas of research and research training;
   -

   Enabling academic departments, disciplinary and cross-disciplinary units,
   and multi-organization collaborations to create well-equipped research
   environments that integrate research with education;
   -

   Supporting the acquisition and development of instrumentation that
   contributes to advancements in supercomputing technology, and/or takes
   advantage of existing investments in cyberinfrastructure while avoiding
   duplication of services already provisioned by NSF investments.  The NSF
   document, “Cyberinfrastructure Vision for the 21st Century” (
   http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf0728/index.jsp) provides an evolving
   vision that will help guide the Foundation's future investments in
   cyberinfrastructure;
   - Promoting substantive and meaningful partnerships for instrument
   development between the academic and private sectors (i.e., small
   businesses).  Such partnerships have the potential to build capacity for
   instrument development in academic settings and to create new products with
   wide scientific and commercial impact.  Partnerships with applicability to
   the Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRCs) program are
   encouraged.
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