[GRASS-PSC] New NSF wide program: Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems NSF 22-572

Wed Feb 16 15:54:42 PST 2022

Huidae,

A proposal would need to be framed correctly. But I think that GRASS might have a shot at it. As you know, these program announcements are often very dense, requiring one to read (and guess) between the lines. Here are some additional excerpts that I think are relevant.

"The PEOSE program aims to support managing organizations that will facilitate the creation and growth of sustainable high-impact OSEs around already-developed open-source research products."

This is not for the development of FOSS, but for supporting the organization that will manage and enable the ecosystem that arises around existing, successful FOSS. What is a "managing organization"? The language is (perhaps intentionally) vague in this regard.

"In particular, PEOSE constitutes a new pathway to translate research results" and " PEOSE is specifically focused on another translational lineage – supporting translation from research results to OSEs"

So the focus would need to be on how this can help GRASS better support research and how new research can improve GRASS so that it can do so.

"The expected outcomes of the PEOSE program are (1) to grow the community of researchers who develop and contribute to OSE efforts, and (2) to enable pathways for the development of collaborative OSEs that could lead to new technology products or services that have broad societal impacts."

In other words, how could this help expand the GRASS dev community, especially researchers? And how could it enhance the GRASS ecosystem (devs and users) to create new and impactful geospatial technologies. Examples for GRASS might be removing its capacity for AI/ML parsing of remote sensing imagery and coupling this with traditional GIS data, further developing GRASS's unique temporal GIS, developing modules for agent-based modeling in a digital GIS world.

The small grant phase I program ($300k) could help GRASS scope an integrated suite of tech advances, the developer community needed to create them, the user communities that would advance transformational research applying these technologies, and an enhanced organizational structure (beyond the PSC) to make that happen.

The larger grant ($1.5M) would be more for implementing a road map designed in a phase I project or within the current PSC and dev community.

Perhaps no one has the band width to do this right now. But it is an exciting new direction of NSF, along with several other recently announced programs, to support open science and FOSS.

Michael
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C. Michael Barton
Associate Director, School of Complex Adaptive Systems (https://scas.asu.edu<https://scas.asu.edu/>)
Professor, School of Human Evolution & Social Change (https://shesc.asu.edu)
Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity (https://complexity.asu.edu)
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2701
USA

Executive Director, Open Modeling Foundation (https://openmodelingfoundation.github.io<https://openmodelingfoundation.github.io/>)
Director, Network for Computational Modeling in Social & Ecological Sciences (https://comses.net)

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On Feb 16, 2022, at 7:36 AM, Huidae Cho <grass4u at gmail.com<mailto:grass4u at gmail.com>> wrote:

Michael,

Thanks for sharing this information. I agree with you that it can be a unique opportunity for GRASS although I'm not entirely sure what they exactly want.

The goal of the PEOSE program is to fund new OSE managing organizations

It is clear that they don't aim to support the actual development of software. Instead, it sounds like they aim to fund *new* open-source ecosystems (OSE) *managing organizations*. Something like OSGeo, but more specific to GRASS in our case... for example, GRASS Ecosystem for Users and Scientists (GEUS)? Propose a new OSE managing organization and how to sustain it?

Best,
Huidae

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 1:09 PM Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu<mailto:Michael.Barton at asu.edu>> wrote:
This is perhaps a unique funding opportunity for GRASS. I don't think I can (or should) be the lead on such a proposal because I will have maxed out my grant/proposal bandwidth by the due date. But anyone else in the US on the PSC could be the lead, and I'm happy to participate.

Michael
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C. Michael Barton
Associate Director, School of Complex Adaptive Systems (https://scas.asu.edu<https://scas.asu.edu/>)
Professor, School of Human Evolution & Social Change (https://shesc.asu.edu<https://shesc.asu.edu/>)
Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity (https://complexity.asu.edu<https://complexity.asu.edu/>)
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2701
USA

Executive Director, Open Modeling Foundation (https://openmodelingfoundation.github.io<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://openmodelingfoundation.github.io/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!JzlXuJcHvqkVmlHW8nYc6Qf0bUfK2fbJuwIXnW2J0QYeAV9YrZ5wztjHvLGuaOkWrqg$>)
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Subject: New NSF wide program: Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems NSF 22-572
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The goal of the new Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (PEOSE) program is to harness the power of open-source development for the creation of new technology solutions to problems of national and societal importance. Many NSF-funded research projects result in publicly accessible, modifiable, and distributable open-sourced software, hardware or data platforms that catalyze further innovation. In some cases, an open-source product is widely adopted and forms the basis for a self-sustaining open-source ecosystem (OSE) comprises a distributed community of developers and a broad base of users across academia, industry and government. The goal of the PEOSE program is to fund new OSE managing organizations, each responsible for the creation and maintenance of infrastructure needed for efficient and secure operation of an OSE based around a specific open-source product or class of products. The early and intentional formation of such managing organizations is expected to ensure more secure open-source products, increased coordination of developer contributions, and a more focused route to impactful technologies. https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/pathways-enable-open-source-ecosystems-peose#:~:text=NSF%20is%20introducing%20a%20new,of%20national%20and%20societal%20importance<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/pathways-enable-open-source-ecosystems-peose*:*:text=NSF*20is*20introducing*20a*20new,of*20national*20and*20societal*20importance__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!OGb4ImOjS0EScokXPDXSVBlyCvdUeKNGzkbYAqR3I0Sgc22K1ncb9_XOL2q--pF5GGc$>.

This solicitation (NSF 22-572<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22572/nsf22572.htm__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!OGb4ImOjS0EScokXPDXSVBlyCvdUeKNGzkbYAqR3I0Sgc22K1ncb9_XOL2q-P4wiV5I$>) seeks two types of proposals, allowing teams to (1) propose specific activities to scope the development of an OSE (Phase I), and (2) develop a sustainable OSE based on a mature open-source product that shows promise both in the ability to meet an emergent societal or national need and to build a community to help develop it (Phase II).

Phase I ($300K with durations of up to 1 year) Deadline Date - May 12 2022
Phase II ($1.5M with durations of up to 2 year) Deadline Date - October 21 2022

Be safe,
Wendy

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