by Admin | Oct 11, 2018 | Blog
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 sponsored projects...
by Admin | Oct 4, 2018 | Blog
Background to the recent revision of the Code View the Revised 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...
by Admin | Sep 27, 2018 | Blog
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 to our...
by Admin | Sep 27, 2018 | Blog
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 an end. I am...
by Admin | Sep 19, 2018 | Blog, 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...
by Admin | Sep 11, 2018 | Blog, 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....