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2018 Board of Directors Selection Process Challenges
It has been brought to my attention that several members of our community did not receive an endorsement ballot. This is an unfortunate situation and one I’m dreadfully sorry happened. We tried to build a process for the endorsement period that was robust...
2018 NumFOCUS Board Selection Results
The 2018 NumFOCUS Board Selections have concluded and we are proud to announce our new directors. These directors will take their positions during our annual Summit, taking place in New York from Sept 22-25. Our incoming board members are: Sylvain Corlay — Sylvain has...
Tech-Driven Trading Firm IMC Joins NumFOCUS Corporate Sponsors
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce IMC is now a Corporate Sponsor at the Silver Level. “Sponsoring NumFOCUS is an opportunity for us to show our gratitude, invest in business-critical tools and give back to an organization that we truly admire.” “At IMC, traders, quants...
NumFOCUS Awards Development Grants to Open Source Projects – Summer 2018
As Fernando Pérez (NumFOCUS Advisory Council member) has stated, when people are expected to work on open source software for free, only the people who can afford to work for free can participate. So long as that is the case, being able to work on open source will...
Endorsements for the 2018 NumFOCUS Election
NumFOCUS Elections Process We received 46 nominations for the new NumFOCUS Board of Directors — thank you to all who nominated someone! The next step is for the nominees to complete their application detailing their qualifications, and then there will be an...
Announcing Julia 1.0
NumFOCUS congratulates the Julia community on their achievement of the much-anticipated 1.0 release—the culmination of nearly a decade of work to build a language for “greedy programmers.” JuliaCon2018 celebrated the event with a reception where the community...
Optimization modeling language JuMP joins NumFOCUS Sponsored Projects
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce the newest addition to our fiscally sponsored projects: JuMP. JuMP is a modeling interface and a collection of supporting packages for mathematical optimization that is embedded in Julia (also a NumFOCUS sponsored project). With JuMP,...
Two Sigma Renews Corporate Sponsorship of NumFOCUS
Two Sigma, Quantitative Hedge Fund, Renews Support for Open Source Scientific Computing NumFOCUS is proud to announce that Two Sigma, a Gold level Corporate Sponsor, has renewed their financial support for a second year. “Two Sigma is thrilled to continue...
NumFOCUS to Hold 2018 Elections for Board of Directors
New Procedures for This Year's Election In the coming weeks, NumFOCUS will be holding Board of Directors elections to install a new board of seven members whose terms will begin at our Summit, September 22-25. It turns out that we have not had elections in a few...
NumFOCUS Hires its President, Andy Terrel, & Launches Four New Initiatives
Andy Terrel goes full-time as NumFOCUS President This post was written by Andy Terrel, NumFOCUS President. I am proud to announce that as of July 1st, I have joined the NumFOCUS staff full time. My role is being generously funded by the Sloan Foundation as...
NumFOCUS Projects at SciPy 2018
NumFOCUS was well represented at the 2018 SciPy Conference in Austin, Texas. Presentations given by our projects included: Talks Keynote: SciPy 1.0 and Beyond: A Story of Code and Community by Ralf Gommers Should this Drug be Approved? A...
NumFOCUS 2018 Google Summer of Code, Part 4 (Final)
This is the fourth and final post in our series introducing NumFOCUS GSoC students to the community. (first post, second post, third post) We're pleased to introduce our GSoC students working on Astropy, SunPy, and SymPy Manan...