Earlier this year a new funding model [1] for LSST operations was announced. Since then the team has been working hard to flesh out the details of the model. Part of that work was to set up a process to get proposals from current International Memorandum of Agreements (MOA) holders [2]. We're please to announce that this process is now being kicked off!
October 31, 2019 | Invitation to current MOA holders and interested groups |
November 22, 2019 | Letters of Intent due |
March 31, 2020 | Proposals due |
May 31, 2020 | Evaluation feedback provided |
Summer 2020 | Iterate to convergence on draft agreement text |
For more details and background information please refer to the post on the community forum. [3]
Links
[1] https://www.lsst.org/news/data-rights-and-funding-lsst-operations
[2] https://www.lsstcorporation.org/international-contributors
[3] https://community.lsst.org/t/update-on-international-lsst-data-rights-and-in-kind-contributions/3903