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
Core Members & Roles
Current TARDIS core team members are as follows (you can click on the role to learn more about it):
Andreas Flors
Package Coordinator: Carsus
Andrew Fullard
Software Architect
Anirban Dutta
PR/Issues Coordinator
Atharva Arya
Infrastructure Coordinator
Jaladh Singhal
Community Coordinator
Mark Magee
Science coordination group member
Michael Zingale
Ombudsperson
Sona Chitchyan
DEI
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