+1

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:03 AM Jeffrey S. Oishi <jsoishi@gmail.com> wrote:
+1

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:06 PM Suoqing Ji <suoqing@physics.ucsb.edu> wrote:
+1! Great too hear this!


On Jan 28, 2016, at 9:04 AM, John ZuHone <jzuhone@gmail.com> wrote:

+1 here!

On Jan 28, 2016, at 12:00 PM, Jill Naiman <jnaiman@gmail.com> wrote:

+1 here too!

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Kacper Kowalik <xarthisius.kk@gmail.com> wrote:
On 01/28/2016 10:26 AM, Matthew Turk wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The NumFOCUS organization is a 501(c)3 dedicated to both open source
> scientific software and computational science education ( numfocus.org ).
> I have recently been named to their board of directors.
>
> NumFOCUS supports many projects familiar to us here, including NumPy,
> Matplotlib, Jupyter, Astropy, and Sympy, as well as rOpenSci, Data
> Carpentry, Software Carpentry and Julia.
>
> After talking this over with Britton, I would like to propose that we join
> NumFOCUS through a comprehensive Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement.  This
> process is outlined here:
>
> http://www.numfocus.org/apply-for-fiscal-sponsorship.html
>
> Organizations such as NumPy and rOpenSci have detailed their reasons for
> participating in this program here:
>
> https://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2015-October/073926.html
> https://ropensci.org/blog/2014/10/01/numfocus-partnership/
>
> Primarily, I think that this would help with our ability to exist
> independently of a single investigator; grants for programs such as
> workshops, project infrastructure, and so on can be managed by NumFOCUS
> (which has low overhead) and can be affiliated with the project.
>
> I think this is something that warrants discussion, and perhaps should be
> talked over in person during a team meeting, but I believe that this would
> be a strong step forward for us as a project and a community.
>
> -Matt

Hi Matt,
although IANAL (especially with regard to US laws) I think FSA would be
very beneficial to yt project.
Count a solid +1 from me.
Cheers,
Kacper



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