Belinda Weaver joins Carpentries as Community Development Lead
Belinda Weaver was recently hired by the Carpentries as their new Community Development Lead. We are delighted to welcome her to the NumFOCUS family! Here, Belinda introduces herself to the community and invites your participation and feedback on her work. I am very...
Why Is NumPy Only Now Getting Funded?
Recently we announced that NumPy, a foundational package for scientific computing with Python, had received its first-ever grant funding since the start of the project in 2006. Community interest in this announcement was massive, raising our website traffic by over...
Meet our GSoC Students! Part 1: The SymPy Cohort
This is the first post in our blog series about Google Summer of Code 2017 students working on NumFOCUS projects. (Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) NumFOCUS is proud to introduce our Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2017 students to the community. Altogether we have 52 students...