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Bokeh joins NumFOCUS Sponsored Projects
Bokeh joins NumFOCUS NumFOCUS is pleased to announce the newest addition to our fiscally sponsored projects: Bokeh. Bokeh is an interactive visualization library that targets modern web browsers for presentation. Bokeh can help anyone who would like to...
NumFOCUS thanks Matt Turk for his service on the Board of Directors
Thank you, Matt! The NumFOCUS team expresses our sincere thanks to Matt Turk for his service on the Board of Directors. Matt first joined the board in 2015 and is stepping down this spring after three years helping to lead the organization through a period...
Bloomberg Supports Jupyter as NumFOCUS Platinum Sponsor
NumFOCUS is very pleased to announce Bloomberg as our newest Platinum Corporate Sponsor. “Bloomberg believes the more we improve open source tools for scientists, the better off we all are” Bloomberg has been an active supporter of NumFOCUS for many...
StanCon 2018
The following guest post about StanCon2018 was written by Breck Baldwin of Stan. Link to conference website: http://mc-stan.org/events/stancon2018/ Overall Observations StanCon2018 was protected by the divine force that ensures the success of...
Applications Are Open for Google Summer of Code with NumFOCUS!
Fourth Year of GSoC with NumFOCUS NumFOCUS is excited to once again participate as an umbrella organization for Google Summer of Code 2018 — our fourth time participating in the program! Google Summer of Code (GSoC) sponsors students to work full-time for...
Cantera Joins NumFOCUS Sponsored Projects
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce the newest addition to our fiscally sponsored projects: Cantera. Cantera is an open source software suite which helps users solve problems involving thermodynamics, chemical reaction rates, and fluid transport processes. The...
Julia Joins Petaflop Club
Re-posted with permission from https://juliacomputing.com/press/2017/09/12/julia-joins-petaflop-club.html Julia has joined the rarefied ranks of computing languages that have achieved peak performance exceeding one petaflop per second – the so-called ‘Petaflop Club.’...
ActiveState Joins NumFOCUS as Corporate Sponsor
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce ActiveState is now a Corporate Sponsor at the Bronze Level. “We're proud to support NumFOCUS and its open source projects Matplotlib, pandas, PyTables, and SymPy” "NumFOCUS is proud to become a partner with ActiveState,”...
Carpentries Transition From Fiscally Sponsored Project to Community Alliance Member
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce that Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry are moving out of our Fiscal Sponsorship Program and transitioning to a new, merged organization, The Carpentries, that will become a member of the NumFOCUS Community Alliance....
Geotab Joins NumFOCUS as Corporate Sponsor
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce Geotab as our newest Corporate Sponsor at the Bronze level. “By supporting NumFOCUS, we are helping to support the funding of the tools that Geotab’s data science team uses on a daily basis" About NumFOCUS Corporate...
Diverse & Inclusive Events and Conferences Cookbook — 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: Starting D&I Conversations at Work Getting Started With Open Source A Directory to Increase...
Communicating Feedback as a Service — 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: Starting D&I Conversations at Work Getting Started With Open Source A Directory to Increase...