This document outlines the personnel, technical infrastructure, and financial resources needed to execute the AETHER roadmap.
- Core Compiler Engineers (3 FTE): Focus on AST parsing optimizations, error diagnostic span trackers, and JIT backend lowerings.
- Hardware Integration Specialist (1 FTE): Develop Qiskit/OpenQASM quantum routing layers and OpenBCI stream connections.
- Developer Relations & Technical Writer (1 FTE): Manage community forums, RFC coordinate steps, and API reference pages.
- CI/CD Build Systems: Multi-platform runners on GitHub Actions (macOS, Linux, Windows).
- Physical Hardware Testing: Access to cloud quantum compute time (e.g. IBM Quantum Services).
- Hosting: GitHub Pages hosting for documentation website and registry indexes.
- R&D and Infrastructure: $450,000/year.
- Quantum Cloud API Access: $50,000/year.
- Funding Channels:
- Open-source grants.
- Venture sponsorship packages.
- Tiered subscription support structures.