NumFOCUS hires Open Source Developer Advocate!

NumFOCUS hires Open Source Developer Advocate!

  NumFOCUS is pleased to announce that Arliss Collins has been hired as our organization’s first Open Source Developer Advocate. Founded in 2012, NumFOCUS has finally grown beyond just providing non-technical needs for our 40+ sponsored projects! As our first...

JupyterCon 2020: Code of Conduct Reports

Following the reports to the NumFOCUS Code-of-Conduct committee on Jeremy Howard’s keynote at JupyterCon 2020, and the controversy that followed, the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct Committee issued a public apology to Jeremy Howard and escalated the case to the board...
Public Apology to Jeremy Howard

Public Apology to Jeremy Howard

We, the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct Enforcement Committee, issue a public apology to Jeremy Howard for our handling of the JupyterCon 2020 reports. We should have done better. We thank you for sharing your experience and we will use it to improve our policies going...
TARDIS Joins NumFOCUS as a Sponsored Project

TARDIS Joins NumFOCUS as a Sponsored Project

NumFOCUS is pleased to announce the newest addition to our fiscally sponsored projects: TARDIS TARDIS is an open-source, Monte Carlo based radiation transport simulator for supernovae ejecta. TARDIS simulates photons traveling through the outer layers of an exploded...
NumFOCUS Earns Transparency Recognition from GuideStar

NumFOCUS Earns Transparency Recognition from GuideStar

Earlier this week, NumFOCUS earned our first-ever Silver Seal of Transparency from GuideStar, an independent organization which classifies nonprofit organizations based on multiple metrics pertaining to transparency and accountability. Fewer than 5% of US-based...