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NumFOCUS Projects at SciPy 2017
SciPy 2017 is a wrap! As you'd expect, we had lots of participation by NumFOCUS sponsored projects. Here's a collection of links to talks given by our projects: Tutorials Software Carpentry Scientific Python Course Tutorial by Maxim Belkin (Part 1) (Part 2) The...
Meet our GSoC Students Part 2: The Julia Cohort
This is the second in our blog series about the NumFOCUS project Google Summer of Code students. (Part 1, Part 3, Part 4.) Meet our Julia GSoC Students We are excited to introduce to the community our cohort of 19 GSoC students working with Julia, a...
FEniCS Conference 2017 in Review
Jack Hale of FEniCS Project was kind enough to share his summary of the recent 2017 FEniCS conference, for which NumFOCUS provided some travel funds. Read on below! The FEniCS Conference 2017 brought together 82 participants from around the world for a conference on...
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...
NumPy receives first ever funding, thanks to Moore Foundation
For the first time ever, NumPy—a core project for the Python scientific computing stack—has received grant funding. The proposal, "Improving NumPy for Better Data Science" will receive $645,020 from the Moore Foundation over 2 years, with the funding going to UC...
NumFOCUS adds Shogun Machine Learning Toolbox to Sponsored Projects
NumFOCUS is delighted to announce the addition of the Shogun Machine Learning Toolbox to our fiscally sponsored projects. Shogun’s mission is to make powerful machine learning tools available to everyone —researchers, engineers, students — anyone curious to experiment...
Python in Astronomy 2017
#pyastro17 brought together 54 participants from five continents for a wide-ranging workshop on Python in Astronomy.
NumFOCUS Awards Small Development Grants to Projects
This spring the NumFOCUS Board of Directors awarded targeted small development grants to applicants from or approved by our sponsored and affiliated projects. In the wake of a successful 2016 end-of-year fundraising drive, NumFOCUS wanted to direct the donated funds...
What is it like to chair a PyData conference?
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be in charge of a PyData event? Vincent Warmerdam has collected some thoughts and reflections on his experience chairing this year's PyData Amsterdam conference: This year I was the chair of PyData Amsterdam and I'd like to...
NumFOCUS projects participate in Docathon 2017
Seven NumFOCUS sponsored projects participated in Docathon 2017: IPython, Project Jupyter, Julia, Matplotlib, pandas, SunPy, and yt. The Docathon is like a hackathon but is focused on developing material and tools for documentation. Documentation is one of the most...