NumFOCUS

I’m probably being incredibly naive, but thoughts / comments? @danielskatz @choldgraf @NumFOCUS @betatim @betanalpha @amuellerml @fperez_org @wesmckinn

The problem here is logistics. Every funding agency and university has different requirements and thresholds for allowable line items. Once you calibrate the prices and procedure you then have to set up payment, taxes, and the like.

Then you have to figure out if there’s enough interested parties to make it financially worthwhile. With significant demand it can take an FTE to handle everything even if you’re not providing support or anything.

Bootstrapping this stuff is rarely viable and there’s not much capital going around for seed investment in open source companies. And all of that presumes a functional governance/organization.

Doesn’t @NumFOCUS provide the organizational structure needed to do this for the projects under its umbrella?

that's the goal of numfocus, I believe. It's basically "A foundation as a service"...I agree it would be well-placed to figure out some of these things, not sure if it's something they've made a push on though.

I'm not sure if numfocus has hired a person for a project yet.

I'm not sure it has. We need to put people to work