Cycle 4 funding: Derek Homeier Core Maintainer, Coordination Committee and Affiliated Editor Support

[jdswinbank]

Issue to track progress of Cycle 4 funding request which was approved in #397 .

• Project Description
• Awarded Amount: $21,600 (US)
• Period of Performance: 2024-05-01 through 2025-04-30
• Finance Committee Contact: @jdswinbank
• COTR: TBD

[AnaGabela]

Hi Derek,

Let's get you started on getting a new contract with NumFocus because I think that's gonna take them a little while. Here are the instructions:

Go to https://numfocus.org/rocket
Click on Independent Contractor Registration
Form fields
Project: Astropy
Grant: NASA
Full Name
Email address
Street Address
Street Address
City
State
Postal Code
Country
Start Date: May 1, 2024-April 30, 2025
Description: Core Maintainer, Coordination Committee and Affiliated Editor Support
Project Contact name: Astropy Finance Committee
Project Contact email: finance@astropy.org
Payment method: ACH, Wire Transfer, PayPal
Bank Information
Comments about payment
Upload W9 or W8
Please let me know that you have submitted the form so we can keep track of it.

[dhomeier]

Hi @AnaGabela, will do probably next week. I have started doing some work this month, but would prefer to invoice just semi-annually (i.e. at the end of this year and next year) if that's OK – so should leave plenty of time to set up the contract.

Description: Specreduce and spectroscopy development

I believe this was incorrectly copied over from another template (same, it seems, for other FRs) – my project is primarily core maintainer and CoCo work with a bit of specutils development, but hardly specreduce.

Another question: original period of performance was until 2025-04-30, but the contract states - Feb 28 – is this just the latest start date, or simply renewal time with NumFOCUS, or should I plan this part of the work to be completed by February? Thanks, Derek

[AnaGabela]

ooops you are right.. my mistake!

You are right

[AnaGabela]

Hi,
I am just checking to see if you had submitted the form so we can keep track of it. If you have sent it of let me know so I check on the contract. If you still need to do it please let me know when you are done!
Let me know if you have any questions.