@sbfnk and I have written a letter of intent for the sustainable software institute open source software call (Research Software Maintenance Fund | Software Sustainability Institute)
Provisionary title: Unifying, harmonising, and establishing sustainable governance for the epinowcast/epiforecasts ecosystem of infectious disease modelling tools
The idea as maybe implied by the title is to link up the work we have been doing in a new organisation with more formal governance, make new tooling like shared preprocessing and start working towards more formal onboarding and expansion. The application is here Review application · Issue #11 · epiforecasts/ssi-2025-grant · GitHub and any thoughts welcome here or in the repository. Deadline for submission is the 30th but will submit a few days before this. This is just the first round so more feedback opportunities if we get through this.
This is all connected to this Rebranding the epinowcast community and organisation - #6 by kcharniga2
I am also very interested if anyone has any other ideas for funding these efforts and would be keen to lead initiatives!
Also apologies for our insane team composition statement. Sadly grant writing feels like formalised boasting.