CASS Foundations Working Group (Foundations Forum)

The foundations forum is an open forum for projets to meet and share experiences with joining or membership of an open-source software foundation (e.g. NumFOCUS, High Peformance Software Foundation, etc.)

We will generally try to structure these forums around:

• Benefits of software foundations
• Joining NumFOCUS, HPSF, or the Apache Software Foundation (and possibly others)
• Experiences with foundations (I can talk about Parsl and NumFOCUS, and others would be welcome to talk about their experiences with other foundations)
• Another foundation-related topic that the group chooses

Meetings will be open to anyone who wants to join - so please feel free to share

• Meetings will usually be recorded and posted on youtube, with links to them from a part of the CORSA website (see below).
• Meetings will be announced via the CORSA email list and the CASS #general and #wg-foundations slack channels

Next meeting: Dec 5, 2024 at 12:00 to 13:00, CDT

See announcement for zoom details.

Past meetings

Oct 30, 2024

We had a small group (JC Subida, Peter Lindstrom, Todd Gamblin, Dan Katz, Greg Watson, Elaine Raybourn) and good discussions after some introductions, touching on:

• different types of foundations, pros and cons
• how foundations can take in funding from different agencies and then allocate that to project work at different institutions
• issues about overhead, rules from different agencies, etc.
• reasons for projects to bring in money from a foundation vs to a performance institution directly.
• legal status of foundations and projects
• which kinds of projects (started by which kinds of institutions and how many of them) join foundations, and which I hope we will be able to build from this meeting.

This meeting was not recorded.