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Dask joins NumFOCUS Sponsored Projects
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce the newest addition to our fiscally sponsored projects: Dask. Dask is an open source library for natively scaling Python. It provides advanced parallelism for analytics, enabling performance at scale for the tools you love....
Meet our 2019 Google Summer of Code Students (Part 3)
This is the third and final post in our blog series about the 2019 NumFOCUS Google Summer of Code students. (Part 1, Part 2)In this post, we highlight some of the students working with NumFOCUS sponsored projects Shogun, SymPy, and SunPy. (These projects are...
Meet our 2019 Google Summer of Code Students (Part 2)
This is the second in our blog series about the 2019 NumFOCUS Google Summer of Code students. (Part 1, Part 3)We are excited to introduce to the community our cohort of GSoC students working with some of our NumFOCUS Affiliated Projects: ArviZ, Chainer, CuPy, Data...
Meet our 2019 Google Summer of Code Students (Part 1)
NumFOCUS is proud to introduce our Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2019 students to the community. NumFOCUS is excited to once again participate as an umbrella organization for Google Summer of Code 2019 — our fifth time participating! This year we are proud to have 22...
Moderna joins NumFOCUS Corporate Sponsors
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce Moderna as our newest Corporate Sponsor at the Bronze level. "Moderna aspires to be the world's first truly digital biotech company. In pursuing that vision, computational scientists and software developers rely on...
Google Renews Corporate Sponsorship of NumFOCUS
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce that Google has renewed their Corporate Sponsorship at the Bronze level.“Having Google’s ongoing support is so important to our open source scientific computing projects,” said Leah Silen, NumFOCUS Executive Director. “We...
NumFOCUS Hires First Ever Development Director
NumFOCUS is very pleased to announce that Terry Foor has been hired as the first Development Director for the organization.Founded in 2012, NumFOCUS has operated with a small staff for many years. Thanks to the generosity of our donors and sponsors, in...
SciPy and MathJax join NumFOCUS Sponsored Projects
NumFOCUS is excited to announce the newest additions to our fiscally sponsored projects: SciPy, a foundational building block for scientific and numerical computing in Python, and MathJax, a JavaScript library for displaying mathematics in web pages and...
Two Sigma Renews Corporate Sponsorship of NumFOCUS
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce that Two Sigma has renewed their Corporate Sponsorship at the Gold Level. "Two Sigma is thrilled to continue our sponsorship of NumFOCUS,” said Julia Meinwald, Open Source Coordinator. “Two Sigma’s goal is to find value in...
IBM Renews Corporate Sponsorship of NumFOCUS
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce that IBM has renewed their Corporate Sponsorship at the Platinum Level. “We are thrilled to have IBM’s continued sponsorship to support NumFOCUS open source projects,” said Leah Silen, NumFOCUS Executive Director. “Being...
DISC Committee Nominations are open for 2019-2021 positions
Nominations are open to serve on the NumFOCUS DISC committee! The Diversity and Inclusion in Scientific Computing (DISC) Committee helps to guide the direction and activities of the DISC Program. New DISC Committee Members have ample opportunity to bring...
NumFOCUS Projects Accepted to Inaugural Google Season of Docs
UPDATE! 5 NumFOCUS Projects Accepted to Google Season of Docs We are thrilled to report that 5 NumFOCUS projects were accepted as part of the inaugural cohort of 50 Google Season of Docs (GSoD) organizations. Which is to say, fully 10% of all accepted GSoD...