[yt-dev] Proposal: NumFOCUS Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement

[Jill Naiman]

+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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