Participating
Leah Silen, Travis Oliphant, Anthony Scopatz, Ralf Gommers, Fernando Perez, Andy R. Terrel, Perry Greenfield, Jarrod Millman
- Not attending
- Prabhu Ramachandran, Emmanuelle Gouillart
Approval of prior minutes
Prior minutes have been approved.
Old Business
Boot Camp for Women in Science and Engineering
This is a Software Carpentry workshop, requesting $6,000. This is a worthy endeavor but beyond our ability to fund at that level. We’d be happy to contribute partially towards this goal (up to $1500) and help them with the rest of the fundraising. We will advertise this on the website
Update on Christoph Deil’s Mac
Mac will be hosted in the US, will be bought by Anthony from Apple and Leah will ship it to the hosting company. Once it’s up and running it will be announced on the list.
Update on increasing board size
Nothing to report, Jarrod will follow-up this week? No new activity on this, Jarrod will report back on that.
PyGotham
Community site run by Gloria W., essentially a NYC PyCon. Upon further communication with her, it became clear that she had in mind a fair amount of engagement which might go beyond the resources that Numfocus currently has.
Anthony and Fernando express that it’s important to have a memo of understanding, stating that the conference is nonprofit and that NumFOCUS supports it with the idea of promoting STEM in Python. Should be checked that there are no tax-related issues with handling this money.
Result of numpy.com / numpy.org appraisal
John Turner donated these two domains, he’s getting this appraisal notice so he can claim a tax deduction. numpy.com: reported as worth $5850, the .org is still pending.
Follow up by Andy with Sloan Foundation program directors
Andy wanted to know exactly what he should discuss with Sloan F. to avoid bombarding them with too many things in parallel. Andy asked about clarifying how the budget would work for the technical fellowships. After a fair amount of back and forth on clarifying the intent of the TF idea, Jarrod, Andy and Ralf planned to work further on making this more precise. Andy mentioned the NSF Computing Innovation Fellows program (http://cifellow.org/) (no longer active) as well as Google Summer of Code (https://developers.google.com/open-source/soc/) as two ideas that we can use to frame the discussion.
The Sloan is also interested in citation/impact reporting, at SciPy’12 there was discussion about citation infrastructure for software. The alt-metrics community has done a lot of work on this, it might be useful to interface with them. Andy mentions that the NSF just put out a Dear Colleague letter asking about how to measure the impact of software, perhaps Numfocus could provide a reply to that.
Team Reports
Membership
Nothing to report, but Perry plans to start meetings to discuss soon.
Fundraising
Conversations with industry starting. Financial Industry interested in Technical Fellowships.
Publicity/Promotion
Nothing to report
Grants/Fellowships
Nothing to report
Finance
Nothing to report
New Business
Approved minutes are now on the website under “Board”
NumFOCUS and SciPy 2013 conference
Andy and Anthony are heavily involved with the organization of this year’s SciPy conference, they will try to involve others from the board on this effort.
NumPy release management (Ondrej Certik, …)
Andy and Anthony are heavily involved with the organization of this year’s Ondrej is moving on to a postdoc position at Los Alamos. He may be able to do a bit more release management in the future, but it would be ideal if the money came via NumFocus, since up until now it has been done directly as Continuum. Once that transition is done, Ondrej would report directly to Numfocus. Ralf points out that a discussion about the future of release management for numpy, and whether the numpy community would be happy with Ondrej continuing to work in this capacity via Numfocus.
PyData SV
Leah mentioned that Fernando will be a keynote speaker Andy and Anthony are heavily involved with the organization of this year’s there and that Anthony will run a tutorial on PyTables. There’s also going to be a PyCon Booth, Jarrod can’t make it but Andy will let us know soon if he can. Fernando will go to the NumFocus booth a little.
Miriam Sierig
The check for Miriam Sierig cleared and now all donations go directly to her on the website. The final amount collected by NumFocus, between the creation of the Fund on August 29 2012 and Dec 31 2012 was $91,500.
