05 March 2025

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.medium.com/searching-for-the-next-executive-director-of-numfocus-26313d30f7b7
• Promotional messaging for 2025 Election Committee members

  • Call for Participation - NumFOCUS Election Committee \

      The 2024 Election Committee laid critical groundwork while executing a more open, equitable, and transparent board election process. If you’d like to participate in continuing these efforts as a member of the 2025 NumFOCUS Election Committee, please fill out our interest form here. \
    

Responsibilities include attending bi-monthly one hour meetings which will transition to 30 minute weekly meetings during the two months prior to the election tentatively scheduled for late July. Additional time commitments of 1-2 hours per week may be needed.

Discussion Items:

• Closing of Feb 19 and Feb 26 Minutes
• Approve 2025 Budget
  • Discussion not published as more information was requested.
• Cleaning up NF GitHub teams
  • Removal of old members of the board from private repos
  • Remove other old teams?
    • File this with infrastructure board (see issue)
• PyData Strategic Infrastructure Coordination — Global Council Proposal
  • The informal council wants to make it official by setting up a charter, thoughts?
  • could be under committee structure
  • Things that are missing
    • Reporting mechanism to the board
    • Quarterly report
    • Governance
    • Someone who is responsible for reporting
  • Could be a sponsored project
• Board Contact for the CoC WG
  • They need a board contact that the working group needs in case they need to escalate anything to the board if a decision can’t be reached.
  • Julie will be the contact person