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Apply for community grant: Academic project (gpu and storage)
Hi,
I'm writing on behalf of an open science project called Wonders. Our goal is to collect images and captions from people spread across the world, representing different cultures and backgrounds.
We're building a HuggingFace Space to make all this possible (the current Space is for debugging) and we're trying to figure out which hosting options would work best for this large-scale open science project. Ideally, we want to be able to collect hundreds of GB of data over the next 6 months, and we would also like to gamify part of the data collection process by running a VLM-in-the-loop that also tries to describe the uploaded images in people's native languages.
We have a small amount of budget to dedicate to hosting but we are hoping to use most of our project money on rewards and prizes for the data collectors (think hats and stickers). Would this type of project be eligible for a community GPU grant? If not, do you think that a Pro account with ZeroGPU be suitable for our needs? Or should we investigate Spaces Hardware? The latter option would really eat into our budget and make it difficult to achieve all of the open science aspects of the project.
Also, it would be great to connect before we launch our final Space to make sure we are setting things up correctly.