Refined About, Mission, Governance, and Funding pages

about.md

@@ -6,294 +6,49 @@ title: About MDAnalysis
 <img src="{{ site.baseurl }}/public/mdanalysis-logo_square.png"
 style="float: right" alt="MDAnalysis" width="30%"/>
 
-## Mission
+MDAnalysis is an open-source project dedicated to advancing molecular dynamics analysis through a robust software library, an active community, and sustainable governance. Our tools enable high-performance, reproducible computational studies supporting researchers across academia and industry.
 
-The MDAnalysis [Community](#community) is interested in all facets of **working
-with data in the computational molecular sciences**. We welcome everyone. **We all follow our
-[Code of Conduct] and strive to create an environment that is welcoming to
-all.** Our primary purpose is to produce software that scientists in academia and
-industry will trust to use in their research.
+The MDAnalysis Project is committed to open-source, reproducible computational research. Our [Mission]({{ site.baseurl }}/mission/) guides our efforts in developing robust tools, fostering an inclusive community, and supporting scientists worldwide.
 
-We develop and maintain projects related to the broader goal of processing and
-analyzing data in the computational molecular sciences. We aim to empower users/developers to
-work with our packages following [FAIR principles]. Our central package is the
-[MDAnalysis library] for the analysis of computer simulations of many-body
-systems at the molecular scale. 
+## Get Involved
 
-We believe that scientific software should be open to all while using best
-practices to maintain high standards of correctness and reproducibility. We
-emphasize educating our users to make best use of the tools that we produce, to
-enable them to become contributors to our community and code bases.
+- **Follow Our Code of Conduct:** We foster a welcoming, inclusive environment. Read our [Code of Conduct]({{ site.baseurl }}/conduct/) before participating.
+- **Join the Community:** Connect with other users, report issues, and contribute through multiple channels. Learn more on our [Community]({{ site.baseurl }}/pages/community/) page.
+- **Contribute:** Whether through coding, documentation, community support, or event organization, you can help shape the MDAnalysis ecosystem. Get started with our [Contributing Guide]({{ site.baseurl }}/pages/contribute/) or [join a team]({{ site.baseurl }}/pages/team/) to support specific initiatives. 
+- **Support MDAnalysis:** MDAnalysis relies on grants, sponsorships, and donations to sustain development and community events. Your support helps fund maintenance, development, UGMs (User Group Meetings), workshops, and more. Learn more on our [Funding]({{ site.baseurl }}/pages/funding/) page.
+- **Share your Feedback:** MDAnalysis welcomes feedback for improvement from its users and community. Share your thoughts on MDAnalysis, the community, or events by filling out [this feedback form][].
 
+## Team & Leadership
 
+MDAnalysis is maintained by the [Core Developers]({{ site.baseurl }}/pages/governance/#mdanalysis-core-developers) who lead the project and make key decisions regarding its development. Past contributors who've stepped back become Emeriti Core Developers.
 
-## Community
+Our governance structure ensures transparency and sustainability. See our [Governance]({{ site.baseurl }}/pages/governance/) and [Team]({{ site.baseurl }}/pages/team/) pages for more details.
 
-**MDAnalysis** is developed and maintained as a freely available, open-source
-project by a global community of scientists. The MDAnalysis community adheres
-to our [Code of Conduct]({{site.baseurl}}/pages/conduct/) and invites everyone
-to [participate]({{site.baseurl}}/#participating) --- be it on GitHub Discussions,
-through issue reports, or code contributions.
-
-All *contributors* to the MDAnalysis library and its subprojects are acknowledged
-in a file called `AUTHORS` in each source code repository and in the list of
-contributions; as examples see the [`AUTHORS` file for
-mdanalysis](https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis/blob/develop/package/AUTHORS)
-and the [contributors for
-MDAnalysis/mdanalysis](https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis/graphs/contributors).
-
-MDAnalysis and the algorithms implemented in the library and the subprojects are
-scientific software that are described in [academic
-publications]({{site.baseurl}}/pages/citations/).
-
-MDAnalysis is used in a variety of [other molecular dynamics tools]({{site.baseurl}}/pages/mdakits/).
-
-
-## Open source
-
-All our [code]({{site.baseurl}}/#availability) and our [teaching
-materials]({{site.baseurl}}/pages/learning_MDAnalysis/) are available
-under open source licenses from repositories at
-[https://github.com/MDAnalysis/](https://github.com/MDAnalysis/). The
-MDAnalysis library itself is published under the [GNU General Public
-License, version 2](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html); other
-supporting libraries are published under the MIT or the BSD-3 clause
-licence. 
-
-Installable packages are available through the popular ``pip`` and
-``conda`` package managers as well as some Linux distributions.
-
-
-## Governance
-
-Project leadership is provided by a subset of contributors, the
-*MDAnalysis Core Developers*
-([@MDAnalysis/coredevs](https://github.com/orgs/MDAnalysis/teams/coredevs))
-who have produced substantial contributions over extended lengths of
-time and who remain active in reviewing issues and discussions on
-GitHub Discussions and our Discord server. 
-
-### MDAnalysis Core Developers
-
-The **Core Developers** lead the MDAnalysis project and are responsible to
-the community and to NumFOCUS, our fiscal sponsor. They **represent
-the project publicly** and **vote to make decisions for the project**.
-
-PIs on a grant submitted by MDAnalysis via NumFOCUS must be Core Developers
-while co-PIs do not have to be Core Developers.
-
-Core Developers are granted commit rights (write access) to the [GitHub source
-code repositories][orgrepo] and thus can approve pull requests for merges.
-
-The current
-[@MDAnalysis/coredevs](https://github.com/orgs/MDAnalysis/teams/coredevs/members)
-team ("MDAnalysis Core Developers") consists of:
-
-- @BradyAJohnston
-- @fiona-naughton
-- @hmacdope
-- @IAlibay
-- @jennaswa
-- @lilyminium
-- @marinegor
-- @micaela-matta
-- @orbeckst
-- @p-j-smith
-- @richardjgowers
-- @RMeli
-- @tylerjereddy
-- @yuxuanzhuang
-
-### MDAnalysis Emeriti Core Developers
-
-**Emerita/Emeritus Core Developers** are former Core Developers who remain
-connected to the project but have stepped back from the day-to-day
-decision making. Emeriti Core Developers can reinstate themselves to
-Core Developer status.
-
-Emeriti Core Developers maintain commit rights (write access) to the
-[GitHub source code repositories][orgrepo] and can approve pull requests for
-merges.
-
-The current *Emeriti Core Developers* are:
-
-- @dotsdl
-- Elizabeth Denning
-- @jandom
-- @jbarnoud
-- @kain88-de
-- @mnmelo
-- @mtiberti
-- @nmichaud
-- @PicoCentauri
-- @seb-buch
-- @zemanj
-
-### Decision Making Process and Membership
-
-1. All decisions are made by *simple majority*[^1] of the [MDAnalysis Core
-   Developers](#mdanalysis-core-developers).
-2. New *Core Developers* are elected with a simple majority of current
-   MDAnalysis Core Developers.
-3. Current Core Developers are polled annually to *opt-in* to remain
-   a Core Developer; otherwise they transition to [Emerita/Emeritus
-   Core Developer](#mdanalysis-emeriti-core-developers) status.
-
-[^1]: A [simple majority][] is defined as *more than half the votes
-     cast*. Abstentions or blanks are excluded in calculating a
-     majority vote. Totals do not include votes cast by someone not
-     entitled to vote[^2] or improper multiple votes by a single
-     member.  Illegal votes[^3] are counted as votes cast;  
-     if only two choices (such as a binary "yes"/"no" vote) are
-     possible, a majority vote is more "yes" than "no" votes.
-
-[^2]: See [MDAnalysis Core Developers](#mdanalysis-core-developers)
-    for the list of *individuals entitled to vote*.
-
-[^3]: *Illegal votes* are votes that were cast for ineligible choices.
-
-### Code of Conduct
-
-Everyone in the MDAnalysis community adheres to our [Code of
-Conduct]({{site.baseurl}}/pages/conduct/).  A rotating subset of three
-MDAnalysis Core Developers is tasked to respond to and to investigate
-[Code of Conduct]({{site.baseurl}}/pages/conduct/) violations.
-
-
-## Partners
-
-MDAnalysis is a [fiscally sponsored
-project]({{site.numfocus.sponsored_project}}) of [NumFOCUS][], a nonprofit
-dedicated to supporting the open source scientific computing
-community. 
-
-If you like MDAnalysis and want to support our mission, please
-consider making a [donation]({{site.numfocus.donate}}) to support our
-efforts. NumFOCUS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity in the United
-States; as such, donations to NumFOCUS are tax-deductible as allowed
-by law.  As with any donation, you should consult with your personal
-tax adviser or the IRS about your particular tax situation.
-
-{{ site.numfocus.donate_button }}
-
-
-## Funding
-
-We are grateful for financial support from the following organizations, which have supported MDAnalysis either through direct funding or indirectly by funding MDAnalysis contributors.
-
-### [Chan Zuckerberg Initiative][] (CZI)
-
-<a href="https://chanzuckerberg.com/"><img
-	src="{{site.images}}/CZI_Logo.jpg" title="Chan Zuckerberg
-	Initiative" alt="Chan Zuckerberg Initiative" style="display:
-	inline; float: right; height: 4em; margin: 0 0.5em" /></a>
-
-MDAnalysis has been supported by the [Essential Open Source for Science](https://chanzuckerberg.com/rfa/essential-open-source-software-for-science/) (EOSS) program from the CZI Donor-Advised Fund (DAF), an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation (funder DOI 10.13039/100014989)
-
-- EOSS5, 2022-253062 (**2022**): [MDAnalysis: Outreach and Project Manager](https://chanzuckerberg.com/eoss/proposals/mdanalysis-outreach-and-project-manager/) (**Personnel**: @IAlibay, @jennaswa, @micaela-matta, @orbeckst, @richardjgowers (*PI*))
-- EOSS4, DAF2021-237663, DOI [https://doi.org/10.37921/426590wiobus](https://doi.org/10.37921/426590wiobus) (**2021**): [MDAnalysis: Faster, Extensible Molecular Analysis for Reproducible Science](https://chanzuckerberg.com/eoss/proposals/mdanalysis-faster-extensible-molecular-analysis-for-reproducible-science/) (**Personnel**: @fiona-naughton, @hmacdope, @IAlibay, @ianmkenney, @lilyminium, @orbeckst (*PI*), @richardjgowers)
-
-### [Google](https://opensource.google/)
-
-<a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/"> <img
-    src="https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/images/gsoc2016-sun-373x373.png"
-    title="Google Summer of Code" alt="Google Summer of Code"
-    style="display: inline; float: right; height: 4em; margin: 0
-    0.5em" /></a>
-
-The following contributors were sponsored to work on MDAnalysis through the [Google Summer of Code](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/) program.
-
-- **2024**: @ljwoods2, @lunamorrow, @talagayev
-- **2023**: @marinegor, @xhgchen 
-- **2022**: @aya9aladdin, @BFedder
-- **2021**: @ojeda-e, @orionarcher
-- **2020**: @cbouy, @hmacdope, @yuxuanzhuang
-- **2019**: @NinadBhat
-- **2018**: @ayushsuhane, @davidercruz
-- **2017**: @utkbansal
-- **2016**: @fiona-naughton, @jdetle
-
-<a href="https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs"> <img
-    src="https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/images/SeasonofDocs_Icon_Grey_300ppi_trimmed.png"
-    title="Google Season of Docs" alt="Google Season of Docs"
-    style="display: inline; float: right; height: 4em; margin: 0 0.5em" /></a>
-
-The following technical writers were sponsored to work on MDAnalysis through the [Google Season of Docs](https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs) program.
-
-- **2019**: @lilyminium
-
-### [National Science Foundation](https://www.nsf.gov/)
-
-<a href="https://nsf.gov/">
-<img src="{{site.images}}/nsf.jpg" title="National Science
-	Foundation" alt="National Science Foundation" style="display:
-	inline; float: right; height: 4em; margin: 0 0.5em" /></a>
-
-Earlier work was partially supported by the NSF (as part of award ACI-1443054).
-
-- NSF DIBBS award, ACI-1443054 (**2014**): [CIF21 DIBBs: Middleware and High Performance Analytics Libraries for Scalable Data Science](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1443054) (**MDAnalysis Personnel**: @orbeckst)
-
-The following students were sponsored to work on MDAnalysis through the [NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates](https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/) (REU) program.
-
-- **2021**: @ALescoulie, @edisj
-- **2020**: @edisj
-- **2019**: @nawtrey
-- **2018**: @hfmull
-- **2017**: @kaceyaurum
-- **2016**: @rbrtdlgd
-- **2015**: @ianmkenney
-
-### [NumFOCUS][]
+## Funding & Sponsors
 
 <a href="{{site.numfocus.sponsored_project}}"><img
     src="{{site.images}}/numfocus-sponsored.png" title="NumFOCUS
     sponsored project" alt="NumFOCUS Sponsored" style="display:
     inline; float: right; height: 4em; margin: 0 0.5em" /></a>
-
-MDAnalysis thanks NumFOCUS for its continued support as our fiscal sponsor, as well as through its [Small Development Grants](https://numfocus.org/programs/small-development-grants) (SDG) program.
-
-- SDG Round 3 (**2024**): Customizable and automated scientific molecular rendering with Molecular Nodes (**Personnel**: @yuxuanzhuang, @BradyAJohnston)
-- SDG Round 2 (**2023**): Unified and comprehensive documentation and learning resources for MDAnalysis (**Personnel**: @IAlibay, @jennaswa, @lilyminium, @micaela-matta, @orbeckst)
-- SDG Round 2 (**2022**): Improving the organization and content of MDAnalysis teaching materials (**Personnel**: @micaela-matta, @pgbarletta)
-- SDG Round 1 (**2020**): Periodic boundary handling and on the fly transformations
-- SDG Round 2 (**2018**): MDAnalysis tutorial and hackathon
-- SDG Round 1 (**2017**): Widening platform availability for MDAnalysis: Full Python 3 Support
-
-### [Outreachy](https://www.outreachy.org/)
-
-<a href="https://www.outreachy.org/"><img
-    src="{{ site.baseurl }}{{ site.images }}/Outreachy-logo.svg"
-    title="Outreachy" alt="Outreachy"
-    style="display: inline; float: right; height: 4em; margin: 0 0.5em" /></a>
-
-The following contributors were sponsored to work on MDAnalysis through the [Outreachy](https://www.outreachy.org/) program.
 
-- **2024**: @adetutudeborah
-- **2022**: @umak1106
+MDAnalysis is a fiscally-sponsored project of [NumFOCUS][]. We are also supported by grants, sponsorships, and community contributions that play key roles in supporting our development.
 
-### [Station1](https://www.station1.org/)
+ See our [Funding]({{ site.baseurl }}/pages/funding/) page for more details on our **funding sources and how you can support MDAnalysis**.
 
-<a href="https://www.station1.org/"><img
-    src="/public/images/station1_condensed_logo.png"
-    title="Station1 Logo" alt="Station1 Logo"
-    style="display: inline; float: right; height: 4em; margin: 0 0.5em " /></a>
+## Open Source & Availability
 
-The following contributors were sponsored to work on MDAnalysis through the [Station1 Frontiers Fellowship](https://www.station1.org/sff) program.
+MDAnalysis is released under the [GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later (LGPLv2.1+)][]. This ensures that our tools remain accessible, transparent, and reproducible for molecular dynamics research. Some supporting libraries use the MIT or BSD-3 licenses.
 
-- **2023**: @jong9559, @KarenBekhazi
+MDAnalysis is: 
 
-<div style="clear: both"></div>
+- **Easy to install** &mdash; Available via `pip`, `conda/mamba` and `conda-forge`.
+- **Openly developed** &mdash; The [source code]({{ site.github.repo }}) is hosted on GitHub.
+- **Regularly updated** &mdash; Official releases are distributed via [PyPI][].
 
-## Feedback
+For full installation instructions and setup guides, visit our [Getting Started]({{ site.baseurl }}/pages/getting_started/) page.
 
-MDAnalysis welcomes feedback for improvement from its users and community. If you have any general feedback or comments to make about MDAnalysis, the community, events, or other aspects, please [let us know in this form here](https://forms.gle/n8GLe2QsL2hW2QiDA)!
-
-------
-
-[Code of Conduct]: {{ site.baseurl }}/pages/conduct/
-[MDAnalysis library]: {{ site.github.repo }}
-[FAIR principles]: https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/
+[GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later (LGPLv2.1+)]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html
+[PyPI]: https://pypi.org/project/MDAnalysis/
+[this feedback form]: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScAjjI730i63LbyVkk_tuZ1-FCXUkg6xFugw_gmcsqUvBUtnw/viewform?usp=sf_link
 [NumFOCUS]: https://www.numfocus.org
-[simple majority]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority#Majority_vote
-[orgrepo]: https://github.com/MDAnalysis
-[Chan Zuckerberg Initiative]: https://chanzuckerberg.com/
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+---
+
+The MDAnalysis community is interested in all facets of **working
+with data in the computational molecular sciences**. We welcome everyone. **We all follow our
+[Code of Conduct]({{ site.baseurl }}/conduct/) and strive to create an environment that is welcoming to all.** Our primary purpose is to produce software that scientists in academia and industry will trust to use in their research.
+
+We develop and maintain projects related to the broader goal of processing and
+analyzing data in the computational molecular sciences. We aim to empower users/developers to
+work with our packages following [FAIR principles][]. Our central package is the
+[MDAnalysis library]({{ site.github.repo }}) for the analysis of computer simulations of many-body
+systems at the molecular scale. 
+
+We believe that scientific software should be open to all while using best
+practices to maintain high standards of correctness and reproducibility. We
+emphasize educating our users to make best use of the tools that we produce, to
+enable them to become contributors to our community and code bases.
+
+[FAIR principles]: https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/