[yt-dev] Proposal: NumFOCUS Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement

[Cameron Hummels]

+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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Cameron Hummels
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Astronomy
California Institute of Technology
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