Minutes of SunPy Board Meeting 20140407
2014-Apr-07
- electing all board officers (chair, vice-chair, secretary)
- electing SunPy executive director
- nominations of new board members
- decision on how to handle meeting notes (where? what format?)
- decision on how to communicate between board and public
- SunPy executive director should present idea on how to accept PRs
- Schedule the next meeting
Steven Christe, Jack Ireland, David Perez-Suarez, Stuart Mumford, Russ Hewitt, Andrew Inglis, Albert Shih
- need a SEP for how we deal with meta-data, what should the default behavior be in general. For example, using rotate() will change the header information from the old format to the PSi_j matrix. need to define a meta object
- need a SEP that defines how we deal with optional dependencies
- add an SEP todo list in the wiki for the SEP repo
- Decided that board meetings should be private (4 in favour, 2 against, 1 abstention) but people can be invited or can ask to observe (should generally say yes). Meeting minutes will be public (unanimous vote)
- Andrew Inglis is confirmed as Secretary (unanimous vote)
- Stuart Mumford is confirmed as Executive Director (unanimous vote)
- Steven Christe is confirmed as Chair of the Board (unanimous vote)
- David Perez-Suarez is confirmed as Vice-Chair of the Board (unanimous vote)
- Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros confirmed as a new board member (unanimous vote)
- It was suggested to nominate a member of AstroPy to be on the board. Tom Robitaille was suggested as a candidate.
- It was decided that board meeting minutes should be recorded as a google document, and uploaded to the SunPy Github Wiki upon conclusion of the meeting.
- Decided that Chair, Vice-Chair and Executive Director should be the only 'owners' of the SunPy repository on Github
- Discussion of formalising the PR acceptance process - Stuart will present at the next meeting.
- Next meeting will be one month from this meeting (5th May 2014 at 1pm EST)
- Meeting concluded.
