2 July 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”).
July 2, 2025
**Attending: **Julie Hollek, Sanket Verma, Rosie Pongracz, Mridul Seth, Andy Terrel
**Executive Director: **Jim Weiss
**Not attending: **
Discussion Items:
- Executive Director Recommendation Discussion and Vote
- Resolution: Accept Hiring committee recommendation and give Julie authority to negotiate on our behalf for the hire.
- Motion by Andy, Second by Mridul
- Vote: 5 / 0 / 0
- Resolution: Accept Hiring committee recommendation and give Julie authority to negotiate on our behalf for the hire.
- New sponsored projects applications:
- TSC discussed considering adding additional criteria as adding new projects increases net cost for NumFOCUS, though this is only a discussion.
- Examples of additional criteria: Projects having an existing funding or upcoming funding
- Resolution: Recommend TSC go ahead and review these projects and not halt this round. We can pause the next round upon financial committee review.
- Motion by Sanket, Second by Andy
- Vote: 5/0/0
- TSC discussed considering adding additional criteria as adding new projects increases net cost for NumFOCUS, though this is only a discussion.
- SDG Board Resolution -
- Resolution: Restrict funds to SDG awarded projects
- Motion by Julie, Second by Mridul
- Vote: 5 / 0 / 0
- Resolution: Restrict funds to SDG awarded projects
- PyData Charter -
- TL;DR -proposal to have NumFocus sub-committee for PyData
- Is this a project or is it a committee?
- Projects have a tax status / fiscally sponsored
- Committees are programs
- Fiscal sponsorship
- If PyData becomes a fiscally sponsored entity, we can’t offer sponsorship to donors
- Staff doesn’t believe that it’s mature enough to be a project
- Need staff and board contact with a committee to give them more oversight
- Staff member - Jim
- Board member - Sanket
- Accept the request to be a committee. Have them fill out the charter
- Resolution: Accept PyData Global Committee with Jim Weiss as staff representative and Sanket Verma as Board representative.
- Motion by Andy, Julie
- Vote: 5 / 0 / 0
Resolutions Passed
- Resolution: Accept Hiring committee recommendation and give Julie authority to negotiate on our behalf for the hire.
- Motion by Andy, Second by Mridul
- Vote: 5 / 0 / 0
- Resolution: Recommend TSC go ahead and review these projects and not halt this round. We can pause the next round upon financial committee review.
- Motion by Sanket, Second by Andy
- Vote: 5 / 0 / 0
- Resolution: Restrict funds to SDG awarded projects
- Motion by Julie, Second by Mridul
- Vote: 5 / 0 / 0
- Resolution: Accept PyData Global Committee with Jim Weiss as staff representative and Sanket Verma as Board representative.
- Motion by Andy, Julie
- Vote: 5 / 0 / 0
Action Items:
- Follow up with TSC to see how they deal with website content
- Bring project applications for 2025 to TSC