<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks for following up on this, Christoph.</div><div><br></div><div>I think it's an encouraging program to apply for as I really like the model of a fund specific for public interest technology and for short-timeline open source software development.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't know if this program funds work on existing open source projects or only new projects that are producing their first prototypes. Also, the English-language version of the webpage seems to suggest that they expect teams to be located in Germany. I don't know if suggesting time/work that would be done by other BigBang developers in other countries would be a discouragement for funding the proposal, but I wouldn't want to cause any problems for the proposal. (Personally, I would love to work on BigBang more and be funded to do it, but I don't know right now what time I'll have available depending on what I figure out for long-term employment.)<br></div><div><br></div><div>In terms of existing/alternative work, while I haven't seen much that is directly similar to BigBang's focus on mailing list archive analysis (honestly, I keep expecting that one day someone will just point us to some other project that does all of this!), there are a couple previous relevant, alternative projects to point to:</div><div>* ponymail, an Apache incubator project, provides a search interface for mailing list archives that includes some basic statistical overviews</div><div>* the Enron Email Dataset prompted academic research on email, including many individual analyses, although not much generalizable open source software that I'm aware of: <a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~./enron/">https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~./enron/</a></div><div><br></div><div>I think a valuable project would be to start providing dashboards of the current and historical status of some set of prominent mailing lists (like IETF or W3C), so that there was an ongoing easily digestible overview of the topics, traffic, etc. of an organization's email traffic. That could be an entryway into the software that isn't just a Jupyter notebook analyzing a particular research question (although I think that's a super valuable format as well). But a dashboard overview for one organization could be a good short-term prototype project, and I think it would be welcomed by IETF or a similar Internet governance group, so it could be a good partnership as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps,</div><div>Nick<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 6:02 PM Christoph Becker <<a href="mailto:chrbecker01@gmail.com">chrbecker01@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,</div><div>I just wanted to remind everyone that the deadline for the <a href="https://prototypefund.de/en/" target="_blank">Prototype Fund</a> is at the 30th of March.</div><div>Thus if you are still interested to implement your ideas and be payed for it, let me know and I will include them in the proposal (as has to be written in German and can only be submitted by 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