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NumFOCUS 2018 Google Summer of Code, Julia Cohort
This is the third in a series of blogs to introduce our GSoC students to the community. (first post, second post) We're pleased to introduce our GSoC students working on Julia, a NumFOCUS Sponsored Project Vaibhav Kumar Dixit Parameter...
Ethical Algorithms — Notes from the DISC Unconference
This is the final post in the series on projects developed at the 2017 Diversity and Inclusion in Scientific Computing (DISC) Unconference. Read our prior posts in the series: Diversity and Metrics in Software Communities Diverse & Inclusive Events...
NumFOCUS 2018 Google Summer of Code Cohort, Part 2
Meet the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2018 students working on NumFOCUS projects! This is the second in a series of blogs to introduce our GSoC students to the community. Learn more about the GSoC program and our first group of students in the first blog...
Diversity and Metrics in Software Communities — Notes from the DISC Unconference
This is a contributed post by participants in the 2017 Diversity and Inclusion in Scientific Computing (DISC) Unconference. Read our prior posts in the series: Diverse & Inclusive Events and Conferences Cookbook Starting D&I Conversations at Work...
Meet the NumFOCUS Google Summer of Code 2018 Cohort
NumFOCUS is proud to introduce our Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2018 students to the community. This year there are 47 students participating under the NumFOCUS umbrella! The projects they will be working on include: Cantera Conda Forge Data...
Announcing the 2018 John Hunter Matplotlib Summer Fellows
2018 Fellows: Kimberly Orr & Nabarun Pal NumFOCUS and Matplotlib are pleased to announce the selection of Kimberly Orr and Nabarun Pal as the 2018 John Hunter Matplotlib Summer Fellows. About the Fellowship The John Hunter Matplotlib Summer...
Google Joins NumFOCUS as Corporate Sponsor
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce Google as our newest Corporate Sponsor at the Bronze level. Google and NumFOCUS Support Accessible and Useful Open Code Google’s stated goal is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and...
NumFOCUS Awards Development Grants to Open Source Projects – Spring 2018
NumFOCUS intends to distribute $60,000 in small developments grants to our sponsored and affiliated projects in 2018. Thanks to a successful fundraising year in 2017, NumFOCUS is able to provide funding to help the projects improve usability, grow their...
Project Jupyter Receives ACM Software System Award
Jupyter recognized by premiere computing society We are proud to announce that the 15 members of the Steering Council of Project Jupyter, a fiscally sponsored project of NumFOCUS, have been awarded the 2017 ACM Software System Award. ACM, the Association...
Optiver joins NumFOCUS Corporate Sponsors
Optiver Supports Open Source Scientific Computing through NumFOCUS Corporate Sponsorship NumFOCUS is pleased to announce that Optiver is now a Corporate Sponsor at the Bronze Level. "At Optiver we use NumFOCUS sponsored open source projects every day" "At...
The Worldwide Pandas Documentation Sprint: A Closer Look
A Global Day for Open Source Contribution On March 10, 2018, around 500 people in over 30 locations across multiple timezones came together for a one-day "sprint" to improve the documentation of pandas, a NumFOCUS sponsored project. In the words of one of...
DISC Committee Seeks Nominations for 2018-2020 Members
DISC Committee Nominations are open! Nominations are open for membership on the NumFOCUS Diversity & Inclusion in Scientific Computing (DISC) Committee. DISC Mission NumFOCUS recognizes that the open source data science community is currently highly...