Hello everyone! I have good news. mlpack has been accepted to NumFOCUS as a sponsored project!
It took a long time for this to happen after we agreed on the idea some months ago, but I'm really happy that it has worked out. This means a few effective changes: * NumFOCUS will manage any money for mlpack. Previously I just had a text file and a bit of funds in a bank account. We'll transfer that to NumFOCUS (I need to compute the exact amount but I believe it is around $1000 USD). * mlpack will be advertised on NumFOCUS's website (and we'll have to update ours to point out we are a part of NumFOCUS). * We'll need to have a developed set of governance guidelines (this is a NumFOCUS requirement). After some off-list discussions I've opened a PR here for discussion by everyone: https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/2068 Please feel free to add any comments, if you like. * We'll need to maintain a "NumFOCUS leadership team". There's not much special about that team (see the governance document) but NumFOCUS needs some people it can get in touch with. For now I think it's just fine to go with the 5 people who signed the NumFOCUS agreements and applications (me, Marcus, Shikhar J., Mikhail, and Sumedh). * NumFOCUS may be able to help us sponsor in-person hackathons and collaborations with other NumFOCUS projects. * Nothing changes about development process or anything like that---we are still community-led, and we still get to choose how we develop the library. Anyway, I'm excited about this, and I think it'll be a nice improvement. Let me know if there's anything I can clarify about it. :) Thanks! Ryan -- Ryan Curtin | "In honor of the last American hero, to whom speed [email protected] | means freedom of the soul." - Super Soul _______________________________________________ mlpack mailing list [email protected] http://knife.lugatgt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlpack
