community-updatesis an archive of financial updates posted to theastropy-devmailing list.jobsis an archive of job advertisements issued by the Astropy Project.processdocuments our processes and policies for financial management. In particular, it provides guidance for requesting funding.proposal-callsrecords materials related to calls for projects and proposals funded by Astropy.
The Finance Committee was convened in an interim basis in December 2019. Its status was confirmed and the “interim” designation removed following the CoCo3 election in September 2021.
Committee members are charged with filling the role described on the Astropy website.
Current members are listed on astropy.org.
- Steve Crawford (Ombudsperson; @crawfordsm)
- Hans Moritz Günther (@hamogu)
The running notes of the committee are public and open for comment. Notes are available covering various periods:
The committee uses the public #finance-committee channel on Slack and the issue tracker in the astropy-project repo to track its activities.
We welcome feedback, questions, and comments on this committee's activities via any of the following methods:
- Comment on the running notes linked above.
- Message in #finance-committee on Slack.
- Make an issue in the astropy-project repo.
- Email to [email protected].
Note that none of these communications channels provide an expectation of privacy: the first three are self-evidently public, while the e-mail address forwards to a Google Group where your message may be archived and we cannot guarantee that it will not be disclosed in the future. If you need to discuss a private matter with the committee, please reach out to them in a Slack direct message.
The committee conducts its business according to a set of agreed Policies. Suggestions of changes to these policies are welcome; please use the communication channels described above.