07 November 2023

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 07, 2023

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

Executive Director: Leah Silen

Not attending:

Weekly Updates:

• Board Weekly Updates

Async:

1. New Project Applications - Champion Reports and Voting

   a. Parsl - Logan

   b. Biocommons - Katrina

   i.  Their LOI was accepted by CZI
   

   c. Other projects requesting a conditional approval (pending CZI proposal acceptance) under a pre-approved grant fiscal sponsorship due to CZI LOI acceptance

   i.  fastplotlib - Larry (upon submission of an application)
   
   ii. xBFreE - Katrina (upon submission of an application)
   

Discussion Items:

1. Are we meeting on the 22nd? Who is able to attend? Do we want to reschedule?

   a. LF joining a future meeting

2. Continued Strategic Planning