Support for Participants

Working List of Discussion Items for the WG #9

• General

  Item	Who	Considerations
  Survey/Project Definition	NAIC+	List of tasks/efforts/needs relevant to non-NAIC participants: Survey definition Proposal preparation Software development Consortium communication/management Web-based development/management Documentation development Algorithm development Observation execution Level I data reduction Level II data reduction Level II data archive Provision of public access College/University Education K-12 Education Public Outreach Scientific analysis Hardware acquisition Publication costs Travel support Communications support Follow-up/complementary observations support Scientific meeting support Faculty/staff salary support Graduate student stipend support Graduate student tuition support Undergraduate student stipend support Institutional overheads

• US-based participants

  Item	Who	Considerations
  Precedents	NAIC+	Investigate past/current experiences: GBT Users/Instrumentation, FIRST, SIRTF Legacy, Hubble Treasury, Sloan, 2MASS, NOAO Key Projects
  Options	NAIC+	Discussions with NAIC/NSF

• non US-based participants

  Item	Who	Considerations
  EC funding	WvD+	Possibilities include FP6 Curie Research Training Network
  Other