Re: [Numpy-discussion] A Foundation for the support of NumPy and SciPy

2011-10-04 Thread Jason Grout
On 10/4/11 6:36 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > TL;DR: When it comes to legal matters: starting your own non-profit is > to joining an existing umbrella non-profit as CVS is to git. (And in > fact git is also a SF Conservancy member.) Good point. William has a Sage Foundation set up through Universi

Re: [Numpy-discussion] A Foundation for the support of NumPy and SciPy

2011-10-04 Thread Travis Oliphant
This is a great suggestion. Thank you! It is definitely worth careful consideration. -Travis On Oct 4, 2011, at 6:36 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > [Does the group actually exist yet? Google says: "No groups match > fastecuhla." Replying here instead...] > > I've been following discussion

Re: [Numpy-discussion] A Foundation for the support of NumPy and SciPy

2011-10-04 Thread josef . pktd
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > [Does the group actually exist yet? Google says: "No groups match > fastecuhla." Replying here instead...] https://groups.google.com/group/fastecuhla > > I've been following discussions around non-profit incorporation for > FOSS projects f

Re: [Numpy-discussion] A Foundation for the support of NumPy and SciPy

2011-10-04 Thread Charles R Harris
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > [Does the group actually exist yet? Google says: "No groups match > fastecuhla." Replying here instead...] > > I've been following discussions around non-profit incorporation for > FOSS projects for about a decade (including some years on t

Re: [Numpy-discussion] A Foundation for the support of NumPy and SciPy

2011-10-04 Thread Nathaniel Smith
[Does the group actually exist yet? Google says: "No groups match fastecuhla." Replying here instead...] I've been following discussions around non-profit incorporation for FOSS projects for about a decade (including some years on the internal mailing list for SPI Inc. -- Debian's non-profit found

[Numpy-discussion] A Foundation for the support of NumPy and SciPy

2011-10-04 Thread Travis Oliphant
Hi all, At the recent US SciPy conference and at other times in the past I have been approached about the possibility of creating a foundation to support the development of SciPy and NumPy. I know there are varying opinions about that, but I am generally very supportive of the idea and would