[J3] Fwd: gfortran funding (was: Niklaus Wirth)

[Thomas König]

Here is Andre's reply to my remarks about gfortran funding.

TLDR;

There may still be hope for some funding via the STF, and his company has
worked for the US government before.

So, if anybody on the J3 mailing list wants to make an effort to move some
funding gfortran's way, this would appear to be a possible avenue.

Best regards

     Thomas


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Betreff: 	Re: gfortran funding (was: Niklaus Wirth)
Datum: 	Wed, 10 Jan 2024 08:27:10 +0100
Von: 	Andre Vehreschild <vehre at gmx.de>
An: 	Thomas König <tk at tkoenig.net>
Kopie (CC): 	General J3 interest list <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org>, 
'Long, Bill F' <william.long at hpe.com>, Clune, Thomas L. (GSFC-6101) 
<thomas.l.clune at nasa.gov>



Hi everyone,

this mail will probably not be received by the J3 interest mailing list,
because I am not subscribed there. Feel free to forward!

On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 20:02:34 +0100
Thomas König <tk at tkoenig.net> wrote:

*snip*

> > In principle, I could go to my management and tell them that we need 
> to > spend say $10k-$20k to get some crucial feature or bugfix from a 
> > gfortran developer.   They probably would approve.   OK.  So now we 
> need > to find a vendor that can provide this service.   I cannot just 
> send > the money to a known gfortran developer.  They have to have a 
> legal > entity registered to do acquisitions with the US Gov’t.
> Last year, there was some discussion about getting funding from the
> German government's Sovereign Tech Fund, which is set up for 
> supporting crucial open-source projects 
> (https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/).
>
> An application was made, but it was not even considered, apparently
> because there were too many applications coming in. While this is
> not officially dead, the likelihood of getting funds that way is very
> low.

Well phrased. There is still somewhat live in that funding request, but 
nothing
I have high hopes on. The next decision round is in February and to my
understanding we are on the table. Maybe some stuff needs to be 
delivered, but
nothing major anymore. It probably may lead to not all milestones of the
project plan to be funded (they are independent), but even a smaller portion
helps.

*snip*

> Project coordinator was to have been Andre Vehreschild of Badger
> Systems; I have copied him in. I don't know if they are registers
> with the US government, though.

Yes, we are registered with the US government having worked for Berkeley
University. So that would not be a problem.

*snip*

Regards,
Andre

-- 
Andre Vehreschild * Email: vehre ad gmx dot de
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