Minutes of SunPy Board Meeting 20160507

Date of Meeting

7th May 2016

Attendance

Present: Steven Christe (Chair), David Perez-Suarez (Vice-Chair), Andrew Inglis (Secretary), Albert Shih, Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros, Stuart Mumford, Russell Hewett, Kevin Reardon

Absent: Jack Ireland, Tom Robitaille

Agenda

• sunpy logo update
• joining numfocus
• SEP vote (https://github.com/sunpy/sunpy-SEP/pull/19)
• SEP discussion (https://github.com/sunpy/sunpy-SEP/pull/10)
• new board member
• plans for SPD meeting
• update from ED (e.g. release schedule)

Minutes of Meeting

• Lead Developer update:

  • next point release of 0.6 is almost ready.
  • 0.7 - a feature freeze is proposed by Thursday 13th May, in time for a release the following week.
  • Also, there is a new SunPy Gallery in the docs.

• SPD:

  • one or two evening sessions for SunPy demo. First night would be intro to scientific python, second night SunPy itself.
  • unfortunately no poster for SunPy this time.

• Google Summer of Code (GSOC):

  • 3 students this year. Projects are:
    • add capability for real time data
    • database improvement
    • AIA and CHIANTI. Response functions.

• numfocus

  • Numfocus provides a structure for joining a nonprofit organisation easily.

  • Gives SunPy a mechanism to receive money.

  • E.g. in the Open Astronomy org, there is no easy way to receive money from GSOC. Joining numfocus would provide a mechanism.

  • Stuart is not getting any response from numfocus at the moment. Need to press them.

  • VOTE on pursuing joining numfocus. Result is 7 for, 1 abstention. David is assigned to pursue this further.

• VOTE on standardization of SEPs and adding a list of SEPs. 8 in favour, no abstentions

• Steven discusses the SunPy logo:

  • want to trademark the SunPy logo. But current font used is not free for all purposes - would have to license it from Adobe. Also not so scale friendly.
  • Solution is to change font to a free open source one. Standardise the colors used. Steven shows some examples
  • Just make minimal changes for now - a full rebranding can come later.

• new board member. Still looking for a potential replacement for Tom, who is looking to step down.

• meta SEP

  • shelve discussion until next time. Discuss in Developer meeting instead.

• Juan Carlos raises concern about user-friendliness of SunPy, in particular new units functionality. He has found in practice that the API can be unintuitive. Need to look into this.

Meeting adjourns.