Community Roles
TARDIS is developed by a multidisciplinary team.
The development of TARDIS and associated software tools are made possible through several coordination roles fulfilled by community members. This encompasses a broad scope of responsibilities ranging from direct package development to communication, distribution, and managerial activities. To know about our other members, visit the Collaboration page.
Core Team
TARDIS Core Team is responsible for:
- Overseeing the activities and sets the goals for the TARDIS Collaboration
- Identifying science opportunities that match TARDIS capabilities or coordinates the addition of capabilities
- Identifying education opportunities such as workshops, lecture development, and outreach opportunities
Members & Roles
Current TARDIS core team members are as follows (you can click on the role to learn more about it):
Role Descriptions
Principal Investigator
- Guides the scientific and the educational activities of TARDIS
- Advised by TARDIS Core
Ombudsperson
- Designated person appointed to address the concerns of community members and to uphold the code of conduct
- Solicit and provide anonymized feedback to the TARDIS CORE team
- Assist the TARDIS CORE team with violations of the code of conduct or other ethical concerns
- Specifically selected as not being part of the TARDIS collaboration
Software Architect
- Ensure overall design pattern throughout TARDIS
- Coordinate restructure and rewriting efforts
- Identify and communicate new technologies relevant to TARDIS
PR/Issues Coordinator
- Monitor open PRs and issues
- Monitor reviewing is taking place
- Close abandoned PRs / Issues
Infrastructure Coordinator
- Inform team of break in any of the CI/CD pipelines
- Delegate code maintenance and bug removal
- Identify new technologies for CI/CD
Financial Coordinator
- Manage budget for TARDIS
- Ensure financial transparency
- Coordinating with funding organizations
- Securing funding for parts of the project via discussions and proposals to funding agencies
Education Coordinator
- Coordinating work for weekly science meeting
- Finding publications and collecting TARDIS models
- Citation guide
Science Coordinator
- Coordinating work for weekly science meeting
- Finding publications and collecting TARDIS models
- Citation guide
Community coordinator
- Coordinates outreach efforts of TARDIS
- Manages posting of tweets, updates for NumFOCUS monthly newsletter, etc.
- Encourages participation of TARDIS (as an affiliated project) in different initiatives by NumFOCUS
Atomic Data Coordinator
- Organises atomic data sources
- Manages Carsus package repository
Visualization Coordinator:
- Plans new visualisations of TARDIS results
- Organises visualisation hackathon
Collaboration Coordinator
- Manages role assignment for TARDIS Core
- Organises TARDIS Core meetings
- Administers TARDIS Core functions
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
- Identify opportunities to use TARDIS to engage members of underrepresented minorities (URM) to coding/STEM
- Identify papers about engaging URM in coding / science
GSoC Org Admins & Mentors
GSoC 2021 was made possible by following members:
Org admins
Org admins coordinate participation of TARDIS in the Google Summer of Code. They complete all administrative tasks like submitting the application to participate, requesting slots, ensuring that mentors fill out evaluations in a timely fashion, etc. They may also act as mentors simultaneously during the GSoC.
- Andrew Fullard
- Marc Williamson
- Mark Magee
- Wolfgang Kerzendorf
Mentors
Mentors are people from the community who volunteer to work with a Google Summer of Code student. Mentors provide guidance, feedback and act as ambassadors to help students integrate into the TARDIS community.
- Andreas Flörs
- Andrew Fullard
- Christian Vogl
- Ezequiel Pássaro
- Jaladh Singhal
- James Gillanders
- John O’Brien
- Luke Harvey
- Marc Williamson
- Mark Magee
- Wolfgang Kerzendorf