2025s

Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Admin 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”). April 02, 2025 **Attending: **Sanket Verma, Julie Hollek, Rosie Pongracz, Andy Terrel, Mridul Seth **Executive Director: **Leah Silen, Jim Weiss **Not attending: ** **Information: ** DISC Committee Report Q4 2024-Q12025 Election Committee - the new member announcement is going out today ** Discussion Items:** »

Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Admin 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”). March 5, 2025 **Attending: ** Sanket Verma, Julie Hollek, Rosie Pongracz, Andy Terrel, Mridul Seth **Executive Director: ** Leah Silen **Not attending: ** Logan Kilpatrick **Information: ** Hiring Committee Update Blog post was published: https://numfocus. »

Minutes of a Special Meeting of the Admin 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”). February 6, 2025 Attending: Sanket Verma, Mridul Seth, Julie Hollek, Andy Terrel, Rosie Pongracz Executive Director: Leah Silen Observer: Not attending: Logan Kilpatrick Information: Hiring Committee Update HC is meeting weekly. Michael Z has been added. »

Minutes of a Special Meeting of the Admin 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”). January 8, 2025 Attending: Julie Krugler Hollek, Mridul Seth, Andy Terrel, Rosie Pongracz Executive Director: Leah Silen Observers: Not attending: Logan Kilpatrick, Larry Gray Discussion Public nature of notes Are these notes public? »

Minutes of a Special Meeting of the Admin 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”). February 12, 2025 **Attending: **Sanket Verma, Mridul Seth, Julie Hollek, Andy Terrel, Rosie Pongracz **Executive Director: ** Leah Silen **Not attending: **Logan Kilpatrick **Information: ** OSSci Website 2023-2024 Report 2025 Discussion Groups DISC Committee: Melissa is working on the 2024 report and will send it before the end of next week. »

Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Admin 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”). March 12, 2025 **Attending: **Sanket Verma, Julie Hollek, Rosie Pongracz, Andy Terrel, Mridul Seth **Executive Director: **Leah Silen **Not attending: ** Logan Kilpatrick ** Discussion Items:** Closing of March 5 Meeting Minutes Meeting cadence Skipping next week bc Mridul and Andy are out Rosie out 26-28 / could do Tuesday or Monday CFP Election Committee Call for Participation - NumFOCUS 2025 Election Committee The 2024 Election Committee laid critical groundwork while executing a more open, equitable, and transparent board election process. »

Minutes of a Special Meeting of the Admin 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”). February 19, 2025 Attending: Sanket Verma, Mridul Seth, Julie Hollek, Rosie Pongracz, Andy Terrel Executive Director: Leah Silen Not attending: Logan Kilpatrick **Information: ** Hiring Committee Update RFP is finalized and shared Qualities we’re looking for in a search firm We think they get our work culture Nonprofit ED, bonus for nonprofit service organization commitment to diverse, inclusive, equitable process Experience in Tech, bonus for open source Will be publishing a blog post, aimed for next week DISC Committee Update Unconference in Sao Paulo next month Cookbook resolution to accept new governance model proposed will seek out 2 new committee members to focus on Cookbook Maintenance team will separate out the previous editions and make the system for creating and reviewing a new edition Maintenance team is looking at submitting to GSOC for building crowdsourced translations Election Committee Update Reached out to current team, 2 responded that they would be interested in continuing, but not chairing Staff will reach out to recruit members to the committee Discussion Items: »

Minutes of a Special Meeting of the Admin 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”). January 22, 2025 Attending: Sanket Verma (TSC Rep), Julie Hollek, Rosie Pongracz, Mridul Seth, Andy Terrel (late) Executive Director: Leah Silen Observer: Not attending: Logan Kilpatrick, Larry Gray Discussion Items: Budget Presentation by Leah Start slack threads in the admin_board_2025 for topics to discuss async. »

Minutes of a Special Meeting of the Admin 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”). February 26, 2025 **Attending: **Sanket Verma, Julie Hollek, Rosie Pongracz, Andy Terrel **Executive Director: **Leah Silen **Not attending: ** Mridul Seth, Logan Kilpatrick **Information: ** Hiring Committee Update [Julie Hollek] Final selection of Search Firm to happen this week Blog Post about the search process to be published Weds CTA asking folks “what question do you want to ask an ED candidate? »

Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Admin 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”). March 26, 2025 **Attending: **Sanket Verma, Julie Hollek, Andy Terrel, Mridul Seth **Executive Director: **Leah Silen **Not attending: ** Logan Kilpatrick, Rosie Pongracz **Information: ** DISC Committee Report Q4 2024-Q12025 ** Discussion Items:** »