[SciPy-Dev] SciPy now fiscally sponsored by NumFOCUS

Stefan van der Walt stefanv at berkeley.edu
Thu Apr 18 13:49:51 EDT 2019


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-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.

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


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