See the proposal process guidelines for more details.

1. Draft Your Proposal
   
   • Create your proposal by copying the Google Doc Proposal Template.
   • Keep the proposal concise and easy to understand.
   • We strongly encourage authors to seek and include endorsements from Jupyter councils or committees affected by the proposal. Each endorsement should be a brief paragraph about the impact of the proposed work from the council or committee’s perspective, and express support for the work and a willingness to receive it.
2. Submitting Your Proposal
   • Scope out whatever information is needed to drive conversation and sharpen ideas about the proposal.
   • Create a GH issue to submit your proposal
     • Only submit your proposal once it is ready for review
3. Follow-Up
   • • You may be contacted with additional questions about your submission.

Any active Jupyter community member or contributor can submit a funding proposal. We especially encourage collaborative submissions from multiple community members.

Proposals are due Wednesday, September 9, 2026, anywhere on Earth. See the timeline below for more details.

The jupyter-foundation/funding-proposals repository has one issue for each proposal. This Funding Proposal progress board contains the current status of all funding proposals.

To increase the likelihood of your proposal being accepted:

• Focus on outcomes and community value rather than implementation details.
  Align your proposal to the Jupyter Foundation priorities:
  • Grow contributor capacity
  • Improve the reliability, security, and consistency of Jupyter’s software
• Keep your budget reasonable; smaller budget proposals tend to have a higher acceptance rate. That said, don’t hesitate to be ambitious! We want to see creative and impactful ideas.
• Demonstrate strong community support for your proposal through endorsements, references, or visible discussion.