Looks good to me. This pretty exciting, actually :-)
-CHB Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 7, 2015, at 10:57 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Now that the governance document is in place, we need to get our legal > ducks in a row by signing a fiscal sponsorship agreement with > NumFOCUS. > > The basic idea here is that there are times when you really need some > kind of corporation to represent the project -- the legal system for > better or worse does not understand "a bunch of folks on a mailing > list" as a legal entity capable of accepting donations, or holding > funds or other assets like domain names. The obvious solution is to > incorporate a company to represent the project -- but incorporating a > company involves lots of super-annoying paperwork. (Like, *super* > annoying.) So a standard trick is that a single non-profit corporation > acts as an umbrella organization providing these services to multiple > projects at once, and this is called "fiscal sponsorship". You can > read more about it here: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_sponsorship > > NumFOCUS's standard comprehensive FSA agreement can be seen here: > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/11YqMX9UrgfCSgiQEUzmOFyg6Ku-vED6gMxhO6J9lCgg/edit?usp=sharing > > and we have the option of negotiating changes if there's anything we don't > like. > > They also have a FAQ: > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zdXp07dLvkbqBrDsw96P6mkqxnWzKJuM-1f4408I6Qs/edit?usp=sharing > > I've read through the document and didn't see anything that bothered > me, except that I'm not quite sure how to make the split between the > steering council and numfocus subcommittee that we have in our > governance model sync up with their language about the "leadership > body", and in particular the language in section 10 about simple > majority votes. So I've queried them about that already. > > In the mean time, I'd encourage anyone with an interest to look it > over and speak up if you see anything that you think should be changed > before we sign. > > Cheers, > -n > > -- > Nathaniel J. Smith -- http://vorpus.org > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
