by nf-admin | Mar 4, 2016 | Blog
NumFOCUS is excited to once again participate as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2016 — our second time participating in the program! Google Summer of Code sponsors students to work full-time on open source projects during summer vacation (in the...
by nf-admin | Feb 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
NumFOCUS is pleased to announceStan as our newest fiscally sponsored project. Stan pairs a user-focused probabilistic programming language with a state-of-the-art computational library, enabling automatic inference for a large class of statistical models. Stan is used...
by nf-admin | Feb 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
UPDATED 10.03.17 – Three scientists who were architects and leaders of the LIGO discovery have been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. UPDATED 3.14.17 to reflect inclusion of Stan as part of the LIGO discovery. (Stan was added as a NumFOCUS project after...
by nf-admin | Jan 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
The team at NumFOCUS extends a hearty THANK YOU to all of our supporters! Thanks to your generosity, we were able to shatter our end-of-year fundraising goal and raise a total of $17,600 for open source data science! These funds will be used to support development on...
by nf-admin | Dec 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
by Lorena Barba, NumFOCUS Board Member NumFOCUS reaches $5,000 target, issues new appeal Just over two weeks ago, I cheerfully wrote a blog post calling for donations to the NumFOCUS end-of-year campaign. We had an anonymous donor offer to match any gifts up to...
