[yt-dev] Proposal: NumFOCUS Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement

[Wise, John H]

+1.  I think this is a great idea.

John

> On 28 Jan 2016, at 14:59, Cameron Hummels <chummels at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> +1. Nice.
> 
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Sam Skillman <samskillman at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1
> 
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:03 AM Jeffrey S. Oishi <jsoishi at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1
> 
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:06 PM Suoqing Ji <suoqing at physics.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> +1! Great too hear this!
> 
> 
>> On Jan 28, 2016, at 9:04 AM, John ZuHone <jzuhone at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> +1 here!
>> 
>>> On Jan 28, 2016, at 12:00 PM, Jill Naiman <jnaiman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> +1 here too!
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Kacper Kowalik <xarthisius.kk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 01/28/2016 10:26 AM, Matthew Turk wrote:
>>> > Hi everyone,
>>> >
>>> > The NumFOCUS organization is a 501(c)3 dedicated to both open source
>>> > scientific software and computational science education ( numfocus.org ).
>>> > I have recently been named to their board of directors.
>>> >
>>> > NumFOCUS supports many projects familiar to us here, including NumPy,
>>> > Matplotlib, Jupyter, Astropy, and Sympy, as well as rOpenSci, Data
>>> > Carpentry, Software Carpentry and Julia.
>>> >
>>> > After talking this over with Britton, I would like to propose that we join
>>> > NumFOCUS through a comprehensive Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement.  This
>>> > process is outlined here:
>>> >
>>> > http://www.numfocus.org/apply-for-fiscal-sponsorship.html
>>> >
>>> > Organizations such as NumPy and rOpenSci have detailed their reasons for
>>> > participating in this program here:
>>> >
>>> > https://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2015-October/073926.html
>>> > https://ropensci.org/blog/2014/10/01/numfocus-partnership/
>>> >
>>> > Primarily, I think that this would help with our ability to exist
>>> > independently of a single investigator; grants for programs such as
>>> > workshops, project infrastructure, and so on can be managed by NumFOCUS
>>> > (which has low overhead) and can be affiliated with the project.
>>> >
>>> > I think this is something that warrants discussion, and perhaps should be
>>> > talked over in person during a team meeting, but I believe that this would
>>> > be a strong step forward for us as a project and a community.
>>> >
>>> > -Matt
>>> 
>>> Hi Matt,
>>> although IANAL (especially with regard to US laws) I think FSA would be
>>> very beneficial to yt project.
>>> Count a solid +1 from me.
>>> Cheers,
>>> Kacper
>>> 
>>> 
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