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”). May 7, 2025 Attending: Julie Hollek, Andy Terrel, Mridul Seth, Sanket Verma Executive Director: Jim Weiss Not attending: Rosie Pongracz Meeting Minutes NumFOCUS Branding New website Taking out cruft – old programs, confusing text Hiring contractor to work on landing page of redesigned website Where does the code live? »

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 30, 2025 Attending: Julie Hollek, Andy Terrel, Mridul Seth, Sanket Verma Executive Director: Leah Silen, Jim Weiss Not attending: Rosie Pongracz Information: https://numfocus.medium.com/numfocus-community-update-interim-executive-director-announcement-2cca69c00b5e Discussion Items: Meeting Minutes HR - A board resolution is required by our PEO to transfer management of our 401k plan from Leah to Nicole. »

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 23, 2025 Attending: Julie Hollek, Andy Terrel, Mridul Seth, Rosie Pongracz, Sanket Verma Executive Director: Leah Silen, Jim Weiss Not attending: Introduction: Leah will introduce Marc Ostertag, our new Senior Director of Development Information: »

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 16, 2025 Attending: Julie Hollek, Andy Terrel, Mridul Seth, Rosie Pongracz Executive Director: Leah Silen, Jim Weiss Not attending: Sanket Verma, Information: Condensed budget - (note –this is publicly shareable) Github Donations Someone (no name attached) had made a recurring donation from AmEx, but there wasn’t a name attached to it Jim to investigate in Hubspot 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”). April 9, 2025 Attending: Sanket Verma, Julie Hollek, Andy Terrel, Mridul Seth, Rosie Pongracz Executive Director: Leah Silen, Jim Weiss Not attending: Discussion Items: Meeting minutes Action Item check Github Sponsorship American Express cancelled their $500/mo sponsorship on March 6 Dec 27 $5000 AWS towards EOY campaign PyCon Update Preplanned open space/BoF NVIDIA will donate their booth. »

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 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:** »

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 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 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? »