SGB 2021 General Updates

SGB Updates - February


High-level summaries of discussion/work for this month (no particular order):

  • StanCon 2021 → StanConnect: after some exploration and consultation with previous StanCon committee, we decided to replace StanCon with a StanConnect series. Generally, feedback on this idea was positive: StanCon mini series.
  • Google Summer of Code 2021: Stan applied to become a mentoring organization under the NumFOCUS umbrella. We proposed three projects for prospective students: design-docs/proposal_main.md at master · stan-dev/design-docs · GitHub
  • Work related to drafting governance modules and voting procedures.