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# numfocus

Hey all,

We would like scverse to become a [fiscally sponsored numfocus project](https://numfocus.org/projects-overview). The next application deadline is Jan 15th.

NumFocus supports fiscally sponsored projects by providing legal, financial, and organizational services. Numfocus projects are synonymous with top class OSS projects and enjoy increased visibility and outreach across the scientific computing ecosystem.

Numfocus projects include Bioconductor, Galaxy, and napari as well as more general projects like Numpy, Julia, and Jupyter.

Fiscal sponsorship would give scverse an entity that can recieve grants and spend money with significantly less bureaucracy. In particular this means:

* Receiving money from the private sector without having to go through institute legal department
* Spending without institute policies, e.g. hiring remote from anywhere

We're not seeing this as the primary place for scverse to recieve grants, just as another option.
For example, a numfocus account may not be eligible to recieve large grants from national funding agencies.
We envison numfocus to be particularly useful for funding activites that are inherently cross-instituion, like hackathons, cloud budget or hiring a community manager.

Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns!

– scverse core team

P.S. As a numfocus sponsored project, we would get to have our stickers in good company on this table: ![](https://i.imgur.com/5y8Kwf2.jpg)

## Feedback from Lukas

* Visibility. Numfocus projects are top quality and it increases outreach etc
    * [giovp] I've added something along these lines
* I'd name a couple of examples of things that are in Numfocus. Ideally also something that is remotely bioinformatics?
* Legal support? That we also get this?