cjc0013/research-collaboration-opening

Research collaboration: our work for your expert feedback

Separate from our funded partnership opening, this is a small, unfunded exchange. No money changes hands: we contribute useful work, and a domain expert contributes timely, honest review.

We’re looking for a domain expert with a concrete research or open-source problem. We can contribute research or engineering that is realistic on a consumer laptop—for example, repository work, reproducibility checks, data or evaluation audits, tests and tooling, or source-backed synthesis. GitHub is welcome, but not required.

Some projects will be beyond our hardware limits. If that becomes clear, we’ll say so early and either narrow the scope with you or pass.

Tell us what useful work looks like in your field and how you prefer it to be done. We’ll adapt to your repository, tools, format, and workflow wherever practical.

What we need in return is simple: before we start, commit to a reasonable feedback window that we choose together, then respond within it. The response can be positive, negative, “wrong direction,” or “stop.” Blunt negative feedback may be the most valuable. We need an answer, not approval.

If the agreed window passes without a response, we’ll close that attempt and reopen the collaboration. No hard feelings; we just won’t build around silence.

If you’re interested, send:

• your field and your connection to it;
• the project or repository, if one exists;
• the concrete question or problem;
• what a useful small first contribution would look like;
• your preferred workflow; and
• a feedback window you can honestly commit to, plus any relevant data or compute constraints.

Email: cjc000013@gmail.com

We’ll start small and choose based on fit, feasibility, and what both sides can learn.