I agree. These grants always have a big portion devoted to “overhead,” which supports the local infrastructure at the university. They should now have overhead to support the more important digital infrastructure provided by the open source community.https://twitter.com/rabernat/status/985848797568864256 …
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Yes, but there ought to be a way to fix this. Universities negotiate an overhead rate with with US gov’t funding agencies. Maybe some foundation could negotiate something similar for open source software.
NumFOCUS plans to participate as co-PI on upcoming NSF grants that will run through us, which means we would receive a percentage of the grant as overhead just as universities do.