[SciPy-Dev] SciPy now fiscally sponsored by NumFOCUS

[Ralf Gommers]

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 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 9:38 PM Travis Oliphant <teoliphant at 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-partners-and-funding.
> 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 at 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-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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