HIP Funding

Apropos of funding, we need 10 to 20 K$ for each of the next 2 hackathons, depending on the scale.  This makes it the right size for NSF workshop support according to http://www.nsf.gov/bio/ios/confworkshopguidance.jsp (although that is not the right division for us).  

1. european money? maybe spin off
   • CESAB.  All we need is a "well-recognized scientist belonging to a French scientific organization " to serve as the working group leader.  Rutger and Enrico had suggestions.  
2. NSF BigData
3. NSF meeting support
4. DOE has a genome science program.  They are developing an in-house informatics discovery environment focused on microbial genomics & metabolism (http://kbase.science.energy.gov/).  Arlin met with a DOE program officer who saw a potential for some tie-ins.  DOE usually solicits proposals in the fall.  The program officer suggested contacting some people.  Arlin will get on this.  
5. NSF Data Infrastructure Building Blocks (DIBBs). As one of 3 possible award types, this includes "Interoperability Networks", which are described as "(1) enabling broad community engagement in the development of consensus and agreement on strategies, priorities, and best approaches for achieving broad interoperability; and (2) providing the technical expertise necessary to turn consensus and agreement into robust interoperability tools and resources for their broad use and implementation." However, BIO is not among the directorates explicitly mentioned in the solicitation, and only up to 5 such interop network awards are expected. Also, we tried INTEROP (to which in part this is apparently a successor) previously and were declined.