06 October 2022

Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors of NumFOCUS. All votes are reported in the form “(Y/N/A)” (in favor-Y‚ opposed-N‚ abstentions-A; e.g. “4-1-2” means “4 in favor, 1 opposed, and 2 abstentions”).

October 6, 2022

Attending: James Powell, Rosie Pongracz, Katrina Riehl, Logan Kilpatrick, Larry Gray

Executive Director: Leah Silen

Not attending: Sylvain Corlay

Discussion Items:

a. John Hunter Fellowship Follow Up

b. Elections and Expanding the Size of the Board (Noa & Laura)

i.  Vote to approve Noa and Laura raised by Katrina, seconded by
    > Logan, Vote passed 4-0-0

c. Sponsored Project Applications

i.  Galaxy - Logan

    1.  Vote to approve raised by Logan, seconded by Katrina, vote
        > passed 4-0-0

ii. WorldWide Telescope - Rosie

iii. Geomstats -- Approved for Affiliated Status from meeting

d. Proposal to Distribute the Tokens Donated by Token Engineering > Commons (TEC) by OSIM

i.  This is the donation of 25,000 xDAI cryptographic tokens from
    > TEC for the purpose of making small developer grants that will
    > grow the collaborative space between NumFOCUS open source
    > projects and Web3 technologies.

ii. Proposal - OSS GRANTS TEC - OSIM Token Distribution Agreement

iii. It is unclear to the board what the value of the tokens would
     > be if they cannot be used to pay projects.

iv. Vote to reject by Katrina, seconded by Logan. Vote to reject the
    > proposal passes 4-0-0