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

[Damian Rouson]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 12:09 PM Thomas König via J3 <
j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

Thanks for sending this, Thomas.  It's probably worth sharing a feature
list from Andre's proposal with those interested in funding gfotran.  Also,
presumably we should move this to a new communication channel.  If others
disagree and want to keep the correspondence to stay here, feel free to say
so. GFortran recently set up a Mattermost workspace that I recommend we
join.  Mattermost is effectively a free, open-source Slack clone. I will
suggest to the GFortran Mattermost administrator Jerry Delisle that he
could invite those who have commented in this thread to join Mattermost.
We can set up a channel there to discuss this further.  And for anyone who
wants to fund gfortran work, I'll be glad to facilitate it via one of
several possible mechanisms:

- Berkeley Lab, a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory
- Berkeley Lab Foundation, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) accepting gifts &
contracts funding Berkeley Lab work
- Sourcery Institute, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3)
- Archaeologic Inc., which has done work on contract for the federal
government and for private companies

With all of the above possibilities, I would hope that we can at least
solve one aspect of the problem: the organizational vehicles exist to make
things happen for anyone interested.

Damian




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