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title: 2023-05-30 Numfocus onboarding

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# 2023-05-30 Numfocus onboarding

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## Onboarding Pres

* Like 10 numfocus people
* https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RLItpi2ihL7AZyTINzMLM_860jwyFIeGBasY9bfOP6U/edit#slide=id.g879cdf57dd_0_6

### Leah Silen

* Executive Director
* Working on New Systems


## Intros from scverse

* Person info
* Pres from Danila
    * [slides on scverse Google Drive](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dOoCZafEVJE-FmO4I0LERC1yfMwbrGDYhCjlOvG31Rs/edit)

## Onboarding

* Contacting numfocus: help@numfocus.org
    * Anything other than finance
* NumFocus Staff
    * Arliss Collins: Open Source Dev Advocate
        * Main point of contact for projects
        * Governance systems + community management + others
        * Colab with Bitergia for statistics on projects (like devstats?)
            * Sponsored by anaconda
            * More committees
                * GSOC
                * Small dev grants
    * Finance team
        * Lisa, Lynn, Savannah
        * finance@numfocus.org
            * Google Drive for our project
                * Legal docs, Logos, etc
            * Open Collective for finance
                * Project lead needs to approve things here (good to have two)
                * ~30 days is rough time for spending
        * PEX Cards & Purchasing requests
            * Flexible spending options
                * Pre-loaded with project funds
            * 2-3 weeks
        * Credit card: larger purchases
            * Email to numfocus for these things
    * Nolan Fortman
        * Buisiness development
        * nolan@numfocus.org
        * Donation page
        * For help with managing donations (!!!)
    * Linsday Stecher
        * Grant Coordinator
        * lindsay@numfocus.org
    * Jim Weiss
        * Director of Events and Resources
        * Project Conferences and Events
            * `pydata` series
                * London next week
        * Event management
            * Pretalx
            * Registration site management
            * Personlaized Sponsorship prospectus
            * Graphiic designers
            * Marketers
        * !!!!!!
    * Tomara Youngblood
        * Events Manager
        * PyData conferences
            * Present a tutorial or workshop, or a regular talk
            * Some projecs do sprints
            * Volunteer run
        * Pydata Amsterdam -> June 11th
        * Nov 1-3rd
    * Gayle Ollington
        * gayle@numfocus.org
        * Jupyter Community Events Manager
        * Jupyter community workshop series
            * Kinda like our Hackathons
    * Carolyn Rodon
        * Comms and Marketing Manager
        * carolyn@numfocus.org
        * Communication strategies, how to talk
        * Slack
        * Mailing lists we should subscribe to
        * Graphic Designers they can put us in touch with
    * Samina Trachier
        * Events and Digital Marketing Coordinator
        * In between marketing and events
        * Can help with Merch + vendors for events
    * Donovan DelValle (they/ them)
        * Marketing and Event Coordinator
        * Ticket pages + customer service, creating new pydata meetup chapters
        * donovan@numfocus.org/ admin@numfocus.org
    * Nicole Foster 
        * Operations Manager
        * Can help with accounts:
            * Zoom/ slack/ 1password(?)
            * Domain transfers + trademarking
        * Legal services
            * Trademarking + legal requests
        * Also good for general inquiries (if we don't know who else to talk to)
    * Anita (Chichi)
        * Outreach intern who will be working with numfocus
        * Goverance audit
* Questions
    * [Danila] Are all donations through open collective
        * Yes?
        * Also campaigns, which are distinct
    * [Isaac] Any big things about being based in europe:
        * Payments: over $6000, US tax form
        * Payments: Sometimes had issues, may take one or more try
        * Events: No major problems
    * [Gregor] Do services cost money?
        * Only ones where this was specified
        * There is profit sharing for event stuff
    * [Lukas] When can we announce?
        * It's already out in the newsletter, so sometimes soon?

