Governance, Structure & Values

About

pyOpenSci is a fiscally sponsored nonprofit organization whose mission is to build diverse, supportive community around the free and open Python tools that drive open science.

pyOpenSci supports open science through

• Open Peer review: pyOpenSci runs an open peer review process led by volunteer editors and reviewers. This process has several goals, including reducing functionality overlap in existing open source tools, supporting long-term maintenance of tools and/or carefully sunsetting tools as needed, and increasing the quality of tools built to support scientific workflows.

• Mentorship: We will build out a community program where diverse community members are mentored in skills needed to contribute to open source software, which in turn will propel their open science skills forward.

• Training: pyOpenSci will provide training in skills needed to contribute to open source software.