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NumFOCUS Hires Executive Operations Administrator
Welcome, Nicole! NumFOCUS is pleased to announce the hiring of Nicole Foster as NumFOCUS Executive Operations Administrator. With over 50 Sponsored and Affiliated Projects, NumFOCUS manages a huge volume of operations tasks. We are delighted to add Nicole...
NumFOCUS Releases 2018 Annual Report
NumFOCUS is proud to announce the release of our 2018 Annual Report! New developments and features from our sponsored projects, straight to your inbox, once a month. New developments and features from our sponsored projects, straight to your inbox, once a...
NumFOCUS Announces Cambridge Spark will Host a PyData Conference in 2019
For Immediate ReleaseAUSTIN, Texas, April 8, 2019—NumFOCUS is pleased to announce that Cambridge Spark has volunteered to organize a PyData event in late 2019 in Cambridge, UK.“We look forward to partnering with Cambridge Spark on this exciting event....
Facebook joins NumFOCUS Corporate Sponsors
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce Facebook as our newest Platinum Corporate Sponsor. Facebook believes in the value of open source technology to achieve a shared goal of improving tools and frameworks used by the entire community. As such, Facebook is committed to...
NumFOCUS Welcomes Sam Brice as inaugural Visiting Fellow
We are excited to announce Two Sigma engineer Sam Brice as our inaugural NumFOCUS Visiting Fellow! The NumFOCUS Visiting Fellows Program is an opportunity for individuals employed at corporations or research labs to join the NumFOCUS staff for a designated...
NumFOCUS Hires New Staff to Support Events and Financial Services
New Staff Hired to Support NumFOCUS GrowthNumFOCUS is pleased to announce that we have hired two new staff members to support the rapid growth of our organization.Lisa Martin joins us as Financial Administrator; she will support and assist Lynn Brubaker,...
Blosc joins NumFOCUS Sponsored Projects
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce the newest addition to our fiscally sponsored projects: Blosc, a very high performance meta-compressor specially designed for compressing binary data. Blosc is a high performance compression library written in C that uses the blocking...
Gina Helfrich on the Changelog Podcast
I was happy to be an invited guest on the popular Changelog podcast to talk about NumFOCUS and open source sustainability, the difference between sponsored and affiliated projects, corporate backing, and more. You can listen to my conversation with Adam Stacoviak and...
NumFOCUS Announces Netflix as Corporate Sponsor
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce Netflix as our newest Silver Corporate Sponsor. “It’s fantastic to have Netflix on board as a Corporate Sponsor,” said Leah Silen, NumFOCUS Executive Director. “Their support of nteract will fund the creation of a developer guide for...
Julia Co-Creators To Receive 2019 James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software
NumFOCUS is pleased to congratulate Julia co-creators Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski and Viral Shah on winning the 2019 James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software. Julia's co-creators set out to solve the two language problem by creating a new language that is...
Double Your Donation: NumFOCUS Receives $5,000 Matching Gift Challenge (updated: SUCCESS!)
UPDATE (Jan 2, 2019): Thanks to the generosity of our community, NumFOCUS successfully raised over $10,000 to support open source scientific computing! We sincerely thank our corporate sponsor, Quansight, for their matching challenge, and we thank every one of you who...
Highlights from the 2018 NYC DISC Sprint
This is a guest post by Samuel Brice, DISC Committee Member, originally posted on Medium. Acknowledgements: Thank you to Two Sigma for hosting DISC ! Afshin Darian and Steve Silvester from the JupyterLab core developers team along with Diego...