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AnacondaCON- Connecting Open Source Data Science & Industry!
NumFOCUS Founding Sponsor Continuum Analytics is holding the inaugural AnacondaCON in Austin, Texas on February 7-9. This one-of-kind event not only celebrates the contributions Anaconda has made to the open data science movement, but also the increasing...
Free Software and Open Standards in Science @Horizon 2020 – Call for Action
FSFE has asked for our help as part of the ongoing public consultation on the midterm evaluation of Horizon 2020, the Free Software Foundation Europe published and submitted to the European Commission its Position paper for the endorsement of Free Software and...
NumFOCUS End-of-Year Fundraising Drive
Would you buy a warm cup of coffee to thank the person who builds your favorite open source software? Would you invite a researcher or educator to share a cup of tea to discuss with you how their work is changing lives? As I look at the stickers that cover my...
NumFOCUS Announces Newest Fiscally Sponsored Project: The FEniCS Project
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce the addition of the FEniCS Project (www.fenicsproject.org) to our fiscally sponsored projects. FEniCS is a popular programming environment and platform for computational mathematical modeling, which enables users to quickly translate...
NumFOCUS Announces New Fiscally Sponsored Project: PyMC3
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce PyMC3 as our newest fiscally sponsored project. PyMC3 is a python module for Bayesian statistical modelling and probabilistic programming which focuses on advanced Markov chain Monte Carlo and variational fitting algorithms, such as the...
NumFOCUS Summit 2016
Post by Andy R. Terrel October 10th and 11th, NumFOCUS brought together 23 project representatives, sponsors, board members and friends for the explicit purpose of finding ways we can build a better community. The two day event was generously hosted by Professor...
NumFOCUS Announces New Fiscally Sponsored Project: nteract
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce nteract as our newest fiscally sponsored project. nteract is an ecosystem of open-source, desktop-based, interactive computing tools. The flagship product, the nteract notebook, allows individuals to create documents that contain...
Google Summer of Code 2016 Review
This was NumFOCUS’ second year participating in Google Summer of Code, a summer mentoring program which allows students to work full-time on open source projects supervised by a senior contributor from the mentoring organization. Here are highlights of the amazing...
Projects Director Job Posting
THE POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED! The first step in launching NumFOCUS’ Sustainability Program will be the hiring of a Projects Director. We’re asking for the community’s help in sharing this post with those you feel may be a good match for this exciting addition to the...
NumFOCUS Receives Grant for Project Sustainability
UPDATE: NumFOCUS has hired Christie Koehler as Projects Director The mission of NumFOCUS is to support and promote open source scientific software. We work hard to achieve this goal, but one of the challenges most projects face is sustainability. Our projects...
Remembering Kim
This week our community has some terrible news. Kim Conklin, who designed the early NumFOCUS site, has passed. Kim was one of the kindest and most dedicated individuals I've ever had the opportunity to work with. While many in our community didn't know Kim, they have...
NumFOCUS Announces New Fiscally Sponsored Project: yt
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce yt as our newest fiscally sponsored project. The yt project enables analysis and visualization of volumetric data, with a focus on providing a physically motivated query language for accessing 3D scientific data. It is able to load data...