# Joining NumFOCUS

### Does your project have a contributor Code of Conduct?

Yes

### What is the name of your project?

PlasmaPy

### Please provide the url of your project's (primary) repo:

https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy

### Your project's website

https://www.plasmapy.org

### Please provide a summary description of your project in a few sentences:

The mission of the PlasmaPy project is to foster the creation of an open source software ecosystem for plasma research and education. Our main efforts so far have been to develop PlasmaPy as a package that contains core functionality often needed by plasma physicists across subdomains.

### Does your project have a logo?

(need to upload it)

### Your project's Twitter handle or other social media handles/urls:

https://twitter.com/plasmapy

### Why do you want your project to join NumFOCUS?

We wish to become part of the NumFOCUS community, build collaborations with related projects who are NumFOCUS members, and raise visibility of our project. More pragmatically, we also currently lack a way to accept and use funding that is not tied to our institutions.

### Are you applying for Fiscal Sponsorship or Affiliation?

fiscal sponsorship

### Is your project wanting to apply for the Comprehensive or the Grantor-Grantee fiscal sponsorship model?

*For more information, see https://numfocus.org/projects-overview*

### The publicly visible location of your governance document:

https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy-PLEPs

### The publicly visible location of your roadmap:

Our most comprehensive roadmap is our successful NSF CSSI proposal: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3406803 . We also use GitHub projects: https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/projects?type=classic

### URL to “how to get started as a contributor” documentation:

https://docs.plasmapy.org/en/latest/contributing/index.html

### The names and email addresses of five people willing to act as signatories for your project:

*presumably from the US?*

* Nicholas Murphy, [e-mail]
* Erik Everson (TBC)
* Stephen Vincena (TBC)
* Bennett Maruca (TBC)
* David Schaffner (TBC)

### The name of your project's leadership body

PlasmaPy Coordinating Committee

### A physical mailing address for your project

60 Garden St. MS-58
c/o Nick Murphy
Cambridge, MA 02143

### Please provide a short description of your project geared toward funders/grantors/non-expert audience:

*See example at the top of the page here: https://numfocus.org/project/pandas*

### Please provide a short project description for developers/users:

*See example under “Technical Details” tab at the bottom of this page: https://numfocus.org/project/pandas*

### Please provide us with a a few sentences describing the known applications of your project:

*See example under “Applications” tab at the bottom of this page: https://numfocus.org/project/pandas*

### Please provide us with project Industry, Languages, and Applications tags:

- What Industries is your project mainly used in? Ex: Government, Higher Education, Finance, Business Applications, etc.
- What Languages does your project use? Ex: Python, C, Javascript, R, Julia, etc.
- What are some simple one or two-word applications for your project? Ex: Data Wrangling, Numeric Computing, Modeling, Visualization, etc.

### Any upcoming or annual events held by your project (if applicable):

Plasma Hack Week: https://hack.plasmapy.org

### Link to your project's blog or newsletter (if applicable):

### How does your project relate to or integrate with the existing ecosystem of NumFOCUS tools?This question is required.

### Describe how your project furthers the NumFOCUS mission:

*https://numfocus.org/community/mission*

### How many active contributors does your project currently have?This question is required.

### Any comments you’d like to make on the number of your active contributors:

### What is your project doing to attract and/or mentor new contributors and maintainers?

### Where do you host conversations about project development and governance (e.g. mailing lists, forums, etc.), and how many participants do you have?

### What license(s) does your project currently use?

BSD 3-clause

### Projects must adopt the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct or one similar in spirit. Please tell us how you plan to meet this requirement:

*https://numfocus.org/code-of-conduct*

We have adopted the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct version 2.1