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SciPy 1.0 — 16 Years in the Making
Congratulations, SciPy! SciPy—a NumFOCUS Affiliated Project—recently crossed a major milestone for any open source project: version 1.0! NumFOCUS extends our hearty congratulations to all of the SciPy contributors and community members who helped get the project to...
NumFOCUS welcomes Jim Weiss, Events Coordinator
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce Jim Weiss has been hired as our new Events Coordinator, bringing over seven years of event management experience. Prior to joining NumFOCUS, Jim worked in Washington, D.C., coordinating congressional hearings for the U.S. House of...
Matplotlib Lead Developer Explains Why He Can’t Fix the Docs—But You Can
An Interview with Tom Caswell, Matplotlib Lead Developer UPDATE: HTR Mobile has generously provided a Russian translation of this interview! Given the recent surge in popularity of open source data science projects like pandas, NumPy, & Matplotlib, it’s probably a...
Spotlight on Sustainability at the 2017 NumFOCUS Summit
Following the success of the 2016 inaugural event, we will again be hosting the NumFOCUS Summit, this time in Austin, Texas, October 10-11, 2017. Last year’s NumFOCUS Summit brought together 23 project representatives, sponsors, board members and friends for the...
Open Journals joins NumFOCUS Sponsored Projects
NumFOCUS is pleased to welcome the Open Journals as a fiscally sponsored project. Open Journals is a collection of open source, open access journals. The team behind Open Journals believes that code review and high-quality, reusable software are a critical–but often...
The Econ-ARK joins NumFOCUS Sponsored Projects
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce the addition of the Econ-ARK to our fiscally sponsored projects. As a complement to the thriving QuantEcon project (also a NumFOCUS sponsored project), the Econ-ARK is creating an open-source resource containing the tools needed to...
2017 GSoC Students Complete Work on NumFOCUS Projects
The summer has come to an end and so have the internships of our GSoC students. Ten students have finished their projects successfully and now continue to contribute to our open source community! FEniCS: Ivan Yashchuk has implemented quadrilateral and...
How to Compare Photos of the Solar Eclipse using Python & SunPy
The following post was written by Steven Christe of SunPy. A Rare Opportunity to View the Solar Corona A solar eclipse presents a unique opportunity for us to view the solar corona or solar atmosphere. In visible light, the corona is about one million times fainter...
How rOpenSci uses Code Review to Promote Reproducible Science
This post was co-authored by the rOpenSci Editorial Board: Noam Ross, Scott Chamberlain, Karthik Ram, and Maëlle Salmon. -- At rOpenSci, we create and curate software to help scientists with the data life cycle. These tools access, download, manage, and archive...
Meet our GSoC Students Part 4: Astropy, SunPy & Shogun
This is the fourth and final post in our blog series about Google Summer of Code students working on NumFOCUS projects. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.) We are excited to introduce to the community our students working on Astropy, SunPy, and Shogun Machine Learning...
Leveling up with Open Astronomy: Astropy affiliated packages
Matt Craig, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Minnesota State University Moorhead, has created this list of Astropy affiliated packages to help improve your experience exploring astronomy using Python. This post was inspired by Ole Moeller-Nilsson's recent blog...
Meet our GSoC Students Part 3: Matplotlib, PyMC3, FEniCS, MDAnalysis, Data Retriever, & Gensim
This is the third post in our blog series about the NumFOCUS project Google Summer of Code students. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 4) Meet our GSoC Students For Google Summer of Code 2017, NumFOCUS is proud to mentor students working on the following projects: Matplotlib...