22 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 22, 2025

**Attending: **Julie Hollek, Rosie Pongracz, Mridul Seth, Andy Terrel

**Executive Director: **Jim Weiss

**Not attending: **Sanket Verma

Discussion Items:

• Updates
  • PyData Charter - Sanket is our representative and things are moving.
  • Website is almost done. Jim to reach out to TSC after that is finished
• Mid Year Budget Review Process
  • Board members need to give comments before Tuesday
  • Grants
    • NF-specific grants have not materialized
    • Project grants are doing well
• ED Onboarding
  • ED hiring committee still meets now as the ED onboarding committee Tuesdays from 10-11 CT to pull together resources for Rachel
• Affiliated projects:
  • “Be Open”: Revisit project selection criteria and audit old projects.

Action Items:

• Follow up with TSC to see how they deal with website content
• look at sponsor dashboard on github
• Reach out to Arliss about owners issue