<div dir="ltr">+1</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:03 AM Jeffrey S. Oishi <<a href="mailto:jsoishi@gmail.com">jsoishi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">+1<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:06 PM Suoqing Ji <<a href="mailto:suoqing@physics.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">suoqing@physics.ucsb.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">+1! Great too hear this!</div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br>
<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 28, 2016, at 9:04 AM, John ZuHone <<a href="mailto:jzuhone@gmail.com" target="_blank">jzuhone@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">+1 here!<div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 28, 2016, at 12:00 PM, Jill Naiman <<a href="mailto:jnaiman@gmail.com" target="_blank">jnaiman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">+1 here too!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Kacper Kowalik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:xarthisius.kk@gmail.com" target="_blank">xarthisius.kk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>On 01/28/2016 10:26 AM, Matthew Turk wrote:<br>
> Hi everyone,<br>
><br>
> The NumFOCUS organization is a 501(c)3 dedicated to both open source<br>
> scientific software and computational science education ( <a href="http://numfocus.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">numfocus.org</a> ).<br>
> I have recently been named to their board of directors.<br>
><br>
> NumFOCUS supports many projects familiar to us here, including NumPy,<br>
> Matplotlib, Jupyter, Astropy, and Sympy, as well as rOpenSci, Data<br>
> Carpentry, Software Carpentry and Julia.<br>
><br>
> After talking this over with Britton, I would like to propose that we join<br>
> NumFOCUS through a comprehensive Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement.  This<br>
> process is outlined here:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.numfocus.org/apply-for-fiscal-sponsorship.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.numfocus.org/apply-for-fiscal-sponsorship.html</a><br>
><br>
> Organizations such as NumPy and rOpenSci have detailed their reasons for<br>
> participating in this program here:<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2015-October/073926.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2015-October/073926.html</a><br>
> <a href="https://ropensci.org/blog/2014/10/01/numfocus-partnership/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ropensci.org/blog/2014/10/01/numfocus-partnership/</a><br>
><br>
> Primarily, I think that this would help with our ability to exist<br>
> independently of a single investigator; grants for programs such as<br>
> workshops, project infrastructure, and so on can be managed by NumFOCUS<br>
> (which has low overhead) and can be affiliated with the project.<br>
><br>
> I think this is something that warrants discussion, and perhaps should be<br>
> talked over in person during a team meeting, but I believe that this would<br>
> be a strong step forward for us as a project and a community.<br>
><br>
> -Matt<br>
<br>
</div></div>Hi Matt,<br>
although IANAL (especially with regard to US laws) I think FSA would be<br>
very beneficial to yt project.<br>
Count a solid +1 from me.<br>
Cheers,<br>
Kacper<br>
<br>
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