[yt-dev] Proposal: NumFOCUS Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement

[Suoqing Ji]

+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 <mailto:jnaiman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> +1 here too!
>> 
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Kacper Kowalik <xarthisius.kk at gmail.com <mailto: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 <http://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 <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://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2015-October/073926.html>
>> > https://ropensci.org/blog/2014/10/01/numfocus-partnership/ <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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