SciPy now fiscally sponsored by NumFOCUS
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-suppo.... 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
Hi Ralf, On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:35:11 +0200, Ralf Gommers wrote:
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-suppo.... 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.
I support clarifying the website in this regard. A single page that lists the various supporting organization, and the capacity in which they did/do so, sorted by time, seems like it would be most fair. Best regards, Stéfan
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 7:51 PM Stefan van der Walt <stefanv@berkeley.edu> wrote:
Hi Ralf,
One thing we do need to do is clarify the situation around sponsors on scipy.org. Right now it says "sponsored by Enthought" fairly
On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:35:11 +0200, Ralf Gommers wrote: prominently on
every page, and all other sponsors are hidden away at
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
more comprehensive overhaul of scipy.org would also be nice at some
https://scipy.org/scipylib/donations.html#infrastructure-non-financial-suppo... . this. A point,
but that's for later.
I support clarifying the website in this regard. A single page that lists the various supporting organization, and the capacity in which they did/do so, sorted by time, seems like it would be most fair.
Sounds good, I'll do that. Cheers, Ralf
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This is exciting news. Thanks for all the work on this. As you are putting up historical institutional sponsors for the work, I would appreciate mention Mayo Clinic (1998-2001) and BYU (2001-2007) where I was a paid graduate student and professor and worked on what became SciPy and then SciPy. Thanks, -Travis On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 3:35 AM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:
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-suppo.... 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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On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 9:38 PM Travis Oliphant <teoliphant@gmail.com> wrote:
This is exciting news. Thanks for all the work on this.
As you are putting up historical institutional sponsors for the work, I would appreciate mention Mayo Clinic (1998-2001) and BYU (2001-2007) where I was a paid graduate student and professor and worked on what became SciPy and then SciPy.
Thanks for the input Travis. That's a fair request, and I will include those two institutions. A further thought on this: going forward I think we should only list Institutional Partners, for which we have a clear definition: http://scipy.github.io/devdocs/dev/governance/governance.html#institutional-.... The key point of that is: work on SciPy has to be part of the official duties of the employee. However going back in time I think we should be inclusive, also when other past contributors have done large amounts of work "in the boss's time" and make a similar requests. Cheers, Ralf
Thanks,
-Travis
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 3:35 AM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:
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-suppo.... 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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Hi all, Changes are in: https://github.com/scipy/scipy.org/pull/290 https://github.com/scipy/scipy-sphinx-theme/pull/11 Please review or comment if you have any concerns or additions. I plan to merge those PRs in two days. Cheers, Ralf On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 11:47 PM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 9:38 PM Travis Oliphant <teoliphant@gmail.com> wrote:
This is exciting news. Thanks for all the work on this.
As you are putting up historical institutional sponsors for the work, I would appreciate mention Mayo Clinic (1998-2001) and BYU (2001-2007) where I was a paid graduate student and professor and worked on what became SciPy and then SciPy.
Thanks for the input Travis. That's a fair request, and I will include those two institutions.
A further thought on this: going forward I think we should only list Institutional Partners, for which we have a clear definition: http://scipy.github.io/devdocs/dev/governance/governance.html#institutional-.... The key point of that is: work on SciPy has to be part of the official duties of the employee. However going back in time I think we should be inclusive, also when other past contributors have done large amounts of work "in the boss's time" and make a similar requests.
Cheers, Ralf
Thanks,
-Travis
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 3:35 AM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:
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-suppo.... 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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