The Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS) is seeking proposals for new research and incubator projects to be reviewed at the Spring 2021 CROSS Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) meeting, which will be held March 12. Project Fellowships can be used to fund the work of both PhD candidates and recent PhD graduates.
Proposals are due on February 22. If your proposal is shortlisted, you will be invited to make a 10-15 minute presentation to the CROSS IAB and Advisory Committee.
The full Call for Proposals is available on the CROSS website at https://cross.ucsc.edu/projects/projectproposal.html. That page provides full details about how to apply, the criteria for selection, and a list of suggested topics.
UCSC faculty and PhD students who will have completed their class work by the end of Spring 2021 are encouraged to propose research projects. Funding for selected research projects cover the costs for one graduate student researcher (GSR) position. Research projects should raise a fundamental research question and open a plausible path to open source software that would be widely adopted.
Recent PhD graduates or those graduating by Spring 2021 from any university are welcome to propose incubator projects. Selected incubator projects fund one post-doc position. The proposal should show strong evidence that the open-source software project would meet with great interest by at least one well-established open-source software community.
Please feel free to share the link to the Call with any faculty or student who you think may be interested. Please contact cross-info@ucsc.edu if you have any questions about this Call or the submission process.