For volcalc we asked for a total of 260 hours and we've actually spent about 120 hours on it so far (probably more, but that was what time we logged in our group time tracker thing). That 120 hours included a significant re-factor, new features, documentation, and prepping for CRAN, so probably on-par for an initial release of something like geotargets. I suggest maybe rounding up to a total of maybe 200 hours to also include JOSS and rOpenSci submission.

The current timeline is 9 months total (starting in March) which I think works out to an average of 5.5 hours per week total (2.25 hours per person, if we were to contribute equally). Does that sound like a good level of commitment, @njtierney?

(also tagging @KristinaRiemer to double-check that this is an OK amount of my time to spend on this project)

One of the quirks about RConsortium ISC funding is that they'll only pay one person. When I got funding for webchem, Tamás was the "PI" and I was a "sub-contractor". We split the work and the award equally, but on paper he invoiced the RConsortium and I had to invoice him (and then he wrote me a check or venmo'd me or something like that). Now that I work at a university, I suspect it's a bit more complicated. With the ISC funding for volcalc, that had to go through our grants office. I'm not sure what the situation is at your place of work, @njtierney. I'll ask our grants person if one option or the other is easiest on my end.