Hi everyone,

I'm happy to tell you that, finally, SciPy is now fiscally sponsored by NumFOCUS. We signed a "Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement" between the SciPy Steering Council and NumFOCUS, see https://numfocus.org/information-fiscal-sponsorship (comprehensive model).

What this means is basically that we can have access to services like administrative, legal, marketing support, and can through NumFOCUS accept donations, grants, etc. and use those funds to further improve SciPy. Until now we were only an "affiliated project", which didn't give us our own account or the right to use funds that were donated to NumFOCUS dedicated to SciPy (note that we did get some financial support before, e.g. the small grants for optimize.linprog and pydata/sparse).

One thing we do need to do is clarify the situation around sponsors on scipy.org. Right now it says "sponsored by Enthought" fairly prominently on every page, and all other sponsors are hidden away at https://scipy.org/scipylib/donations.html#infrastructure-non-financial-support. NumFOCUS asked that we fix this. The situation is:

1. NumFOCUS is our fiscal sponsor

2. We have a number of former and current sponsors (both money and things like free infrastructure or services). Those all need to be acknowledged in a fair and visible way.

I will work on an update to scipy.org (aiming for next week) to fix this. A more comprehensive overhaul of scipy.org would also be nice at some point, but that's for later.

Cheers,

Ralf

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