by Admin | Aug 9, 2018 | Blog
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...
by Admin | Aug 9, 2018 | Blog, Projects
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...
by Admin | Aug 6, 2018 | Blog, 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,...
by Admin | Jul 25, 2018 | Blog, Corporate Sponsors
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 our...
by Andy Terrel | Jul 20, 2018 | Blog
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...
by Andy Terrel | Jul 19, 2018 | Blog
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 part of our...
