Anyone else have concerns about the proposed new direction of NumFOCUS? I finally watched the recording from Monday’s Town Hall and I’d love to talk / read your thoughts, be it in public or in private. There’s a repo with some notes from the meeting, including a link to the video, slides, transcript, in this issue https://lnkd.in/gg9a2hxK
Thank you Paul "π" Ivanov for sharing this. I personally have a bias against 501(c)(6) NGOs. Seems to be inappropriate for publicly funded and public-interest scientific software. I understand why they are doing this experiment, and it may "work", but it will have real governance consequences.
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2moOne concern regarding NumFOCUS 501(c)6 status. Here's a clip from 2017 about another 501(c)6: https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxvSOqbXRUlokYpASX4q1mr-_jpdhVZF3l "The Linux Foundation was formed when two black holes of bureaucracy combined to form Voltron of bureaucracy... and when they combined, the focus shifted from maintaining this standard, to asking donors for money."