Fiscal sponsorship agreement for NumFOCUS and open source projects

Please read the background.md document for additional details on the purpose and ideas behind the contracts contained in this repository. This README file only explains the mechanics of signing a new one.

Creating an agreement for a new project

The workflow should be to keep a copy of the template documents for each project, where they edit their own information (names, signatures, addresses, etc) in three sub-files but leave the master template alone. The master template contains all the language that we maintain common to all projects, and keeping it in a separate file will make it easier to track which projects have requested a modified FSA instead of accepting the standard template.

Step-by-step instructions:

• Create project skeleton

# Define PROJECT name
PROJECT=...
mkdir $PROJECT
cd template/
cp Makefile definitions.tex signatures.tex ../$PROJECT
cp fsa-numfocus-template.tex ../$PROJECT/fsa-numfocus-$PROJECT.tex

• In $PROJECT directory, edit Makefile to have proper name of main file (not named template anymore).

• Add the $PROJECT directory to the repo

git add ../$PROJECT
git commit -m"Created new FSA for project: $PROJECT"
git push

• The project members must then edit the three TeX files: definitions.tex, signatures.tex and address.tex with their own information. Note that for privacy reasons, address.tex should not be committed to git, as it is likely to be the personal address of a project contributor.

  If the project agrees to the terms of the agreement, nothing else should be modififed. In particular, the main container document should not be edited (other than renaming it to refer to each project) unless the project specifically wishes to amend/modify the terms of the agreement.

• Once ready, they submit a pull request into the official NumFOCUS repo with their data. Once accepted, that version of the document will be printed, signed and kept on record as the legally binding contract between NumFOCUS and the project.