# Progress report for Paris Sud Viviane Pons, Benoît Pilorget, and Nicolas M. Thiéry --- ## Financial and administrative setup - Everything on rails: money arrived, first expenses done --- ## Hiring - Benoît Pilorget, Project Administrator - Selection: July - Start: mid september - Duration: until end of project -- - Erik Bray, Research Engineer (TODO: add brief bio) - Start: January 1st, physical arrival Frebruary 1st - Duration: until end of project - Works on portability, packaging, ... -- - Jeroen Demeyer, Research Engineer - Selection: July - Start: ??? **Administrative issues with the recruitement** - Duration: until end of project - Currently math postdoc in Ghent, Belgium - Former Sage release manager - Will work on portability, Sphinx documentation, packaging, ... --- ## Achievements - [D1.1: Project infrastructure](https://github.com/OpenDreamKit/OpenDreamKit/issues/17) - Thanks everyone for the help! - Kickoff organization (~3000 euros) - Funding of several people for the joint Sage/Jupyter Days in Berkeley - [D5.1: Turn the Python prototypes for tree exploration into production code, integrate into Sage](https://github.com/OpenDreamKit/OpenDreamKit/issues/107) - Finished and delivered - Glitch remaining under MacOS being resolved - [EInfra Booklet](https://github.com/OpenDreamKit/OpenDreamKit/blob/master/Communication/eInfra-Booklet/ODK.md): 1 page for ODK delivered --- ## Main upcoming tasks and deliverables - Deliverables (M6, March 1st) - Data Management Plan - Starting Press Release (?) - Upcoming events - Sage Days in Cernay (Spring 2016) - Sage Days in FPSAC (July 2016)? - Women in Sage - CIRM (Fall 2017)