04 November 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”).

November 04, 2022

Attending: Rosie Pongracz, Katrina Riehl, Logan Kilpatrick, Larry Gray, Sylvain Corlay, Stéfan van der Walt

Executive Director: Leah Silen

Not attending: James Powell

Executive Director's Report -

• Brief updates

• Discussion around new Business Development Director

• Some of the board has met Nolan, he will talk to the board once he

  is done onboarding

• Gap in our CRM / sponsor development tools so that we have a better

  understanding of who we know at different companies and how we have engaged with them in the past

• Hired a new AP/AR clerk since current staff is trying to roll off and step

  down

  • Nicole is currently also helping with finance activities but she

    needs to move to her core responsibilities and not finance

• Leah can provide an overview of peoples current role and where the

  gaps are / where we would want to hire

• Website updates

  • In progress, working with an external developer and using

    wordpress

  • We should make it possible for the community to give feedback on

    the website

• PyData NYC is sold out!

Discussion Items:

a. Review of Program Summary

i.  Identify and take inventory of the current programming (fiscal
    > sponsorship, educational initiatives (events, workshops,
    > Academy), DISC, Small Developments Grants - Leah will create a
    > program summary for the board

    1.  What are our areas of focus?

    2.  Which programs serve our projects and how?

    3.  What programs serve or build our project's user communities?

    4.  Review our current project services - fiscal
        > sponsorship/Affiliated

    5.  Review segmentation related to effort

    6.  Determine the ROI of each program

ii. Schedule a board meeting to discuss summary.

    1.  Create a roadmap

    2.  Review project criteria and scope (community managers to
        > help spend \$)

iii. Proposal to evaluate services, their cost, and the number of
     > projects using those projects

     1.  In general, the high level programs are okay but we need to
         > drill down on services

     2.  Do we have goals on our current programs?

iv. Proposal to change the fiscal sponsorship name. Board will
    > continue to brainstorm

b. John Hunter Fellowship

c. 2022 Round 3 SDG