requesting nominations for PlasmaPy's Coordinating Committee

[Nick Murphy]

Hi everyone,

We are now accepting nominations for PlasmaPy's Coordinating Committee for terms of up to three years starting in January.  If you would like to nominate yourself to be on the Coordinating Committee, please send me an email at namu...@cfa.harvard.edu by Tuesday, December 18 with a few sentences introducing yourself and describing how you hope to contribute to the project. 

Our goals for the next year include expanding our development roadmap, having an in-person development meeting, creating educational materials, and releasing version 0.2.  We are therefore hoping for representation from subfields across plasma physics (including students) and from people at all levels of experience with Python.

As described in PLEP 2, the Coordinating Committee's roles and responsibilities are to: 

• Oversee the PlasmaPy project;
• Ensure that necessary roles are being filled;
• Coordinate and delegate tasks;
• Facilitate community-wide communication;
• Oversee code development;
• Manage the PlasmaPy repositories;
• Regulate intercompatibility between subpackages and affiliated packages;
• Seek funding mechanisms and coordinate grant proposals;
• Facilitate compromises and cooperation;
• Enforce the code of conduct;
• Foster a culture of appreciation; and
• Protect the universe from being invaded by evil robots from beyond the Moon.

If you have any questions or thoughts, please feel free to bring them up in our Matrix channel.

Many thanks!

Nick