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NumFOCUS Kicks Off Year-End Fundraising with $2,500 Gift
Giving Tuesday 2019 marked the start of NumFOCUS's year-end fundraising campaign, and this year's effort began with a major donation from the organization's Board President, Andy Terrel. "Today I’m pledging a gift of $2,500 to help kick off the NumFOCUS end-of-year...
Stepping Onto a New Path…
Hello, NumFOCUS Community! It's me, Gina—the Director of Communications and Culture. Most of the time I write these blog posts from a more "official" point of view. Today I'm writing very personally, from me to all of you, to let you know that I will be leaving...
Astropy Receives $900k Grant from Moore Foundation
The Astropy Project, which provides software tools and infrastructure to facilitate research by professional astronomers, has received a $900,000 grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Funding will be administered by NumFOCUS—the largest grant NumFOCUS has...
mlpack Machine Learning Library joins NumFOCUS Sponsored Projects
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce the newest addition to our fiscally sponsored projects: mlpack. Mlpack is a fast, flexible machine learning library suitable for both data science prototyping and deployment. Written in C++, mlpack aims to provide fast, extensible...
Now Hiring: Matplotlib Research Software Engineering Fellow
Position Description Matplotlib has been awarded a $250k grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative:https://chanzuckerberg.com/newsroom/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-awards-5-million-for-open-source-software-projects-essential-to-science/ Matplotlib is the fundamental...
NumFOCUS Summit 2019
NumFOCUS stakeholders came together over the weekend in early November for the annual NumFOCUS Summit, a gathering focused on promoting sustainability for our open source scientific computing projects. The event was hosted in New York City by Microsoft, a NumFOCUS...
2019 NumFOCUS Awards and New Contributor Recognition
The second annual NumFOCUS Awards Dinner was held at the NumFOCUS Summit on the evening of Saturday, November 2, 2019. The NumFOCUS Awards recognize members of the community who have made substantial contributions to our projects, to our ecosystem, and to the open...
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Funds Maintenance of NumFOCUS Projects
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce that six of our fiscally sponsored projects have received grant funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) through their Essential Open Source Software for Science program.The funded projects are: pandas Matplotlib NumPy Project...
NumFOCUS and Tidelift partner to support essential community-led open source data science and scientific computing projects
SciPy, NumPy, and pandas maintainers now participate in the Tidelift managed open source subscriptionNumFOCUS and Tidelift today announced a partnership to support open source libraries critical to the Python data science and scientific computing ecosystem. NumPy,...
Introducing Our Newest Corporate Sponsorship Prospectus
"Better tools to build a better world." This condensed version of our vision statement encapsulates the role we consider NumFOCUS to play in scientific innovation and discovery. For the past seven years, NumFOCUS has provided invaluable support to the open...
Highlights From The 2019 Pandas Hack
A guest blog by Sam Brice, NumFOCUS Visiting Fellow.Cross-posted from https://medium.com/@sbrice/highlights-from-the-2019-pandas-hack-331c132f89e8 Acknowledgements: Thank you to Walmart Technology for hosting the Pandas Hack ! Microsoft, Dell,...
QuantumBlack joins NumFOCUS as Corporate Sponsor
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce advanced analytics firm, QuantumBlack, as our newest Corporate Sponsor at the Gold level.“QuantumBlack uses many NumFOCUS supported packages, and being able to give back to the open-source community by becoming a NumFOCUS partner is...