[kepler-users] is Kepler development linked to NCEAS funding?

[David LeBauer]

Thank you very much for providing this information; I am happy to hear this.

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Matt Jones <jones at nceas.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> Hi David --
> Kepler is not directly funded by NCEAS, except that NCEAS contributes
> in-kind support to helping to maintain the project.  We've traditionally
> supported Kepler on a variety of extramural grants, some of which are to
> NCEAS (e.g., SEEK, REAP, SanParks), and others of which are to other
> institutions (e.g., Kepler/CORE, Camera, PPod, etc.).  Most of these are
> collaborative awards that involve at least several members of the Kepler
> leadership team collaborating together across institutions.  We try to
> maintain a diversity of funding streams so that we are less susceptible to
> issues with a single stream running out.
> NCEAS will have a reduction in funding and will be readjusting to compensate
> for that, but we'll continue to operate on other funding and I don't expect
> this to have a major impact on Kepler.  NCEAS does run the mailing lists and
> source code repositories for Kepler (and many other projects), but these are
> open and can easily be migrated if it were ever to become an issue, which I
> don't expect at this time.
> Matt
>
> --
> Matthew B. Jones
> Director fo Informatics Research and Development
> National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
> University of California, Santa Barbara
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 2:20 PM, David LeBauer <dlebauer at illinois.edu> wrote:
>>
>> One of my collaborators suggested that kepler development would stop
>> when NCEAS funding runs out, but the kepler faq indicates that Kepler
>> is not directly funded by NCEAS.
>>
>> Could someone please confirm / comment?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> David
>>
>> --
>> David LeBauer, PhD
>> Energy Biosciences Institute
>> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
>> 1206 W. Gregory Drive
>> Urbana, IL  61801, U.S.A.
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David LeBauer, PhD
Energy Biosciences Institute
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1206 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL  61801, U.S.A.