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This #GivingTuesday, We’re Saying “Thank You” To Our Supporters
We're Not Asking For Money. We're Saying "Thanks."Today is “Giving Tuesday” (Nov. 27th). Just after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday and inspired by "Black Friday," "Small Business Saturday," and "Cyber Monday," #GivingTuesday calls on the public to invest in...
NumFOCUS Funds Open Source Projects through Small Development Grants – Fall 2018
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce recipients of the third and final round of small development grants for 2018. Eligibility for these grants is limited to our Sponsored and Affiliated Projects. This year, NumFOCUS distributed $60,000 in small developments grants to help...
SunPy Maps: Digitizing Images of the Sun from the 1970s
This is a guest post by Keighley Rockcliffe. Coronal Mass Ejections and the Skylab Mission On May 14th, 1973, the US’s first space station, dubbed Skylab, was launched into low-Earth orbit on the last Saturn V rocket launch. Onboard Skylab was a workshop meant for the...
NumFOCUS Announces NVIDIA as Gold Sponsor
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce NVIDIA is now a Corporate Sponsor at the Gold Level. "NVIDIA’s sponsorship of NumFOCUS represents an investment in the community,” said Andy Terrel, NumFOCUS President. “As two leaders in data science, we feel our work...
What Happened at the NumFOCUS Summit 2018?
This past September 22-25, NumFOCUS key stakeholders came together for 4 days of intensive work around questions of sustainability for our open source scientific computing projects: the annual NumFOCUS Summit. Representatives from nearly all of our...
Updates to the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct
Background to the recent revision of the Code The original NumFOCUS Code of Conduct was implemented in 2013. Since then, there have not been any significant updates to the Code even though the community at large has evolved significantly in thinking about...
Inaugural NumFOCUS Awards and New Contributor Recognition
The first annual NumFOCUS Awards Dinner was held at the NumFOCUS Summit on the evening of Saturday, September 22, 2018. As part of building a culture of recognition and mutual respect, we recognized award recipients who have made substantial contributions...
Successful Sustainer Weeks Fundraiser for Open Source Scientific Computing Software
The NumFOCUS Summit concluded this past Tuesday, Sept. 25th after a highly productive and engaging four days of meetings and conversations among key stakeholders in our community. At the same time, the NumFOCUS Sustainer Weeks fundraising campaign came to...
Xarray joins NumFOCUS Sponsored Projects
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce the newest addition to our fiscally sponsored projects: xarray. Xarray is an open source library providing high-level, easy-to-use data structures and analysis tools for working with multidimensional labeled datasets and arrays in...
Conda-forge joins NumFOCUS Sponsored Projects
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce the newest addition to our fiscally sponsored projects: conda-forge. Conda-forge builds and distributes software packages, specializing in the hard-to-build or unique packages that often arise in a scientific computing context....
Public Institutions and Open Source Software (Matthew Rocklin guest blog)
This is a guest post by Matthew Rocklin, cross-posted from his personal blog. You can find him on Twitter at @mrocklin. As general purpose open source software displaces domain-specific all-in-one solutions, many institutions are re-assessing...
NumFOCUS Sustainer Weeks
UPDATE - September 27: We did it! 23 new sustainers joined NumFOCUS to support open source scientific computing software. You can participate, too: Join now. If I could summarize the spirit of NumFOCUS in two words, they would be: Sustainability. Community. As...