# Progress report for Paris Sud
Viviane Pons, Benoît Pilorget, and Nicolas M. Thiéry
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## Financial and administrative setup
- Everything on rails: money arrived, first expenses done
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## Hiring
- Benoît Pilorget, Project Administrator
- Selection: July
- Start: mid september
- Duration: until end of project
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- Erik Bray, Research Engineer (TODO: add brief bio)
- Start: January 1st, physical arrival Frebruary 1st
- Duration: until end of project
- Works on portability, packaging, ...
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- 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, ...
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## 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
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## 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)