[sage-devel] Advice about grant funded software projects?

[Robert Jacobson]

I am the author of MathLine and FoxySheep. My motivations have been to ultimately improve Sage, in particular by improving the ability for Mathematica and Sage to communicate. I have been trying to strategize about how to move forward within an academic environment that doesn't recognize scientific software contributions as legitimate scientific output. I have identified some potential collaborators and a project that would benefit multiple open source scientific projects, including Sage. A research grant to facilitate collaboration and publishing in the Journal of Open Source Software and other relevant peer reviewed journals strikes me as feasible in my institution political environment.

Does anyone have experience with successfully obtaining grant funding for scientific software projects? What hurdles did you face? What advice do you have for someone thinking of pursuing grant funding for what I think could be and important scientific software contribution?

As an aside:
My interests involve Mathematica and Wolfram Language in various ways. If anyone else is interested in building Wolfram Language tools of whatever form, I invite you to our open Wolfram Language Slack workspace: https://join.slack.com/t/wolframlanguage/shared_invite/enQtNDg3MzYxNjU3Mzk5LTE1NGFhZWRmYjk3YTBkZjA5OGRlODQ3Njg1YjAyODliOTU0YjMxZTU0NGIyM2I1NjdhOTZjNDRjYTRhMGI1OTc

Best,

Robert