Hello,
The deadline is in 6 days... Olivier, do you have time to prepare the
application?
Mathieu
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn <bk...@sfconservancy.org>wrote:
> I'm sorry for the late reply to your inquiry about scikit-learn joining
> the Conservancy. Conservancy had been unable for some time to take on
> new projects due to capacity constraints. However, we're now moving
> forward with taking new projects.
>
> Please find application materials below for scikit-learn.
>
>
> Conservancy is now having meetings of our Evaluation Committee monthly.
> While I cannot guarantee your project will be evaluated in a specific
> month (the meeting lasts one hour and we push through as many
> application as we can), getting your application in by the end of the
> month means that at least your project will be on the agenda for the
> following month's meeting. You project will of course stay on the
> agenda until the Evaluation Committee gets to it. Please note that our
> queue is still quite long, and we cannot guarantee when we'll get back
> to you, but we do expect to empty the queue by the end of 2012.
> ######################################################################
> The Software Freedom Conservancy encourages your project to apply for
> Conservancy. Please be advised that applying doesn't guarantee your
> project can join Conservancy; it's simply the first step in the process
> of joining Conservancy.
>
> The deadline for applications is 2012-04-30 at 23:59 UTC. Applications
> that arrive after that time will definitely not be considered until
> 2012-06-15 or possibly later!
>
> Note, however, that Conservancy does have a long queue for project
> applications, so meeting the application deadline does not assure any
> specific date of evaluation of your project.
>
> To apply to the Conservancy, please answer fully all the questions below,
> in a *single* text-only (i.e., not HTML) email to
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> making sure to answer the questions fully.
>
> If the relevant information is already gathered and publicly available,
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> information on it, please make sure that you direct us specifically to
> the portions of the web page loaded by the given URL that are relevant in
> answering the question.
>
> Conservancy Application Questions:
>
> *** Why does your project want to join Conservancy? Specifically, what
> benefits do you expect to take advantage of immediately and within a
> few years?
>
> *** Please give a detailed description of the project.
>
> *** What FLOSS License(s) does your project use? Please include the
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> (e.g., "The project as a whole is GPLv3-or-later, but about a dozen
> files in the directory src/external/ are under the Apache-2.0
> license")
>
> *** Please give us your roadmap and plans for future development of the
> project, including both code and community plans.
>
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>
> *** Please give us a URL to a code repository we can clone and/or
> checkout.
>
> *** Have you ever had funds held by the project, or by any individual on
> behalf of the project? How and for what did you spend those funds?
> Are there funds remaining? If so, who is holding them now?
>
> *** Do you have any ongoing fundraising programs for your project? How do
> they operate, and how much funding is brought in through these
> mechanisms currently?
>
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> copyright, trademark or other types of infringement?
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> *** Please give a brief history of the project, focusing on how the
> community developed and the general health of the community. Be sure
> to include information on any forks or other disputes that have
> occurred in the community.
>
> *** Please explain how your project is governed. Who makes the decisions
> in the project? How do you resolve disputes, particularly about
> non-code issues?
>
> *** If your project runs on Linux-based systems, please list all the
> distributions that include your project, and what "repository area"
> the package appears in. If you aren't packaged for any major
> distributions, please tell us why you believe your project hasn't been
> packaged yet.
>
> *** Does your project have any existing for-profit or non-profit
> affiliations, funding relationships, or other agreements between the
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> Has the project had such affiliations in the past? Please list of all
> of them in detail and explain their nature. Even tangential
> affiliations and relationships, or potential affiliations that you
> plan to create should be included.
>
> *** Approximately how many users does your project have, and what items
> lead you to believe your userbase is of a particular size (e.g., post
> counts to your user mailing list)?
>
> *** Please list the names, email addresses, and affiliations (e.g.,
> employer) of key developers and major contributors. Include both
> current and past contributors and developers. Please include date
> ranges of when those developers/contributors were active.
>
> Please make this list as extensive and complete as possible. You need
> not include every last person who sent one patch, but please include
> at least those who regularly sent patches or were/are regular
> contributors. If you project has contributors who have been inactive
> for more than five years, you need only to list such inactive
> contributors if they made substantial contributions.
>
> *** Please include any other pertinent information not given above that
> you feel we should review with your application.
>
> Please note that your answers will be shared with Conservancy's Board of
> Directors, its Evaluation Committee (the membership of which will be
> published soon on Conservancy's website), and with some of Conservancy's
> existing member projects leaders. We like to get as much input as
> possible from Conservancy's existing project base when evaluating new
> projects for membership.
>
> Please submit the application in pure ASCII format, with paragraph fills
> and line breaks designed for 80 column viewing. You don't need to
> impress us with formatting; what will actually impress us is if you make
> the information presented in a simple and clear way that is easily read
> and understood when edited with GNU Emacs and emailed around internally
> at Conservancy via standard email forwarding tools.
>
> Before completing your application, please be sure to read our
> application FAQ at: http://sfconservancy.org/members/apply/
>
> Feel free to include any additional information you'd like us to review
> in considering an application, but please try to be brief as possible.
>
> Please note that we will ask that applying projects consider donating a
> percentage of their funding to the general operating costs of the
> Conservancy. This is a way to assure we can continue providing a high
> level of service to all Conservancy projects. This is, however,
> voluntary and negotiable, and we can discuss it in detail if your
> project is accepted.
>
> Our application deadlines are *hard* deadlines; if you miss it by just one
> day, you'll have to wait until at least 2012-06-15. Please be advised
> that you may get follow-up clarification questions on your application.
> Please be prepared to respond to these inquiries quickly to assure
> timely processing of your application.
> ######################################################################
> --
> Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director, Software Freedom Conservancy
>
>
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