<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">+1 here!<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 28, 2016, at 12:00 PM, Jill Naiman <<a href="mailto:jnaiman@gmail.com" class="">jnaiman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">+1 here too!<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Kacper Kowalik <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:xarthisius.kk@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">xarthisius.kk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 01/28/2016 10:26 AM, Matthew Turk wrote:<br class="">
> Hi everyone,<br class="">
><br class="">
> The NumFOCUS organization is a 501(c)3 dedicated to both open source<br class="">
> scientific software and computational science education ( <a href="http://numfocus.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">numfocus.org</a> ).<br class="">
> I have recently been named to their board of directors.<br class="">
><br class="">
> NumFOCUS supports many projects familiar to us here, including NumPy,<br class="">
> Matplotlib, Jupyter, Astropy, and Sympy, as well as rOpenSci, Data<br class="">
> Carpentry, Software Carpentry and Julia.<br class="">
><br class="">
> After talking this over with Britton, I would like to propose that we join<br class="">
> NumFOCUS through a comprehensive Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement. This<br class="">
> process is outlined here:<br class="">
><br class="">
> <a href="http://www.numfocus.org/apply-for-fiscal-sponsorship.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://www.numfocus.org/apply-for-fiscal-sponsorship.html</a><br class="">
><br class="">
> Organizations such as NumPy and rOpenSci have detailed their reasons for<br class="">
> participating in this program here:<br class="">
><br class="">
> <a href="https://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2015-October/073926.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2015-October/073926.html</a><br class="">
> <a href="https://ropensci.org/blog/2014/10/01/numfocus-partnership/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://ropensci.org/blog/2014/10/01/numfocus-partnership/</a><br class="">
><br class="">
> Primarily, I think that this would help with our ability to exist<br class="">
> independently of a single investigator; grants for programs such as<br class="">
> workshops, project infrastructure, and so on can be managed by NumFOCUS<br class="">
> (which has low overhead) and can be affiliated with the project.<br class="">
><br class="">
> I think this is something that warrants discussion, and perhaps should be<br class="">
> talked over in person during a team meeting, but I believe that this would<br class="">
> be a strong step forward for us as a project and a community.<br class="">
><br class="">
> -Matt<br class="">
<br class="">
</div></div>Hi Matt,<br class="">
although IANAL (especially with regard to US laws) I think FSA would be<br class="">
very beneficial to yt project.<br class="">
Count a solid +1 from me.<br class="">
Cheers,<br class="">
Kacper<br class="">
<br class="">
<br class="">
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