Hans Moritz Günther

Work will start in December for both contractors. One contract is signed, the other will will hopefully be done soon.

See full details in the annoucement to astropy dev (https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/astropy-dev/c/dw_ej0dqLgQ). Parts of the text are copied here for reference: Hi, a few weeks ago [1], we announced that Astropy is...

For the record: The [original proposal](https://github.com/astropy/astropy-project/blob/main/finance/proposal-calls/cycle3/user-dev-support-rse.md) asked to fund me through a sub-grant to MIT. I would have used that time to make sure that the two new contractors integrate...

I remember writing down a document on how much funding can be approved by the finance committee and at what level Coco participation or community involvement (our internal proposal process)...

That makes sense and I appreciate the extra context in a public forum.

It might be worth looking at https://apps.sciserver.org/ It's essentially a jupyterhub that someone else maintains and that's set up already and that's persistent till after the workshop. Other people are...

Suggestion for topic, coming out of the dev-telecon: Discussion of Science platforms (e.g. SciServer, ...) Do we recommend any? Do we want to maintain our own at some point? Do...

Quantity 2.0 (led by @nstarman): * https://github.com/astropy/astropy-APEs/pull/91 PL edit: Maybe related? * https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues/13460

I believe the dual anonymous reviews won't work for this because in practice we are typically not just funding ideas, but most proposals also identify a qualified hire (typically the...

However, I'm very much interested in exploring how we can structure this to make it easier for people who are not on the core team. How do they get into...