fundfind - an Open way to share, visualise and map out scholarly funding opportunities

Up and running at http://fundfind.cottagelabs.com

Just hop in and search for (or share!) funding opportunities!

You can also look at, download and reuse nice visualisations and maps of scholarly / scientific funding across the world.

FundFind also exposes all the funding opportunities it knows about via a machine-friendly ReSTful API under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. So you can integrate FundFind data into your software. A "permissions" feature is planned however, allowing people to submit funding information to a running fundfind instance for private purposes only (e.g. sharing only with a certain group of users). CC-BY will then become the default option.

NOTE: this is only for people who want to run their own instance of FundFind. If you just want to find/share/visualise funding information, go to http://fundfind.cottagelabs.com .

1. Install stuff:

• Python (2.7+ preferable; NOT TESTED on 3.x)
• ElasticSearch (0.19 series) (tested and should run on 0.17 and up)

2. [optional] Create a virtualenv and enable it:

   # in bash
   virtualenv {myenv}
   . {myenv}/bin/activate

3. Get the source:

   # by convention we put it in the virtualenv but you can put anywhere
   mkdir {myenv}/src
   git clone https://github.com/cottagelabs/fundfind {myenv}/src/

4. Install the app:

   cd {myenv}/src/fundfind
   # for dev install:
   pip install -e .

5. Run the webserver:

   python fundfind/web.py