Meet our GSoC Students Part 2: The Julia Cohort
This is the second in our blog series about the NumFOCUS project Google Summer of Code students. (Part 1, Part 3, Part 4.) Meet our Julia GSoC Students We are excited to introduce to the community our cohort of 19 GSoC students working with Julia, a...
FEniCS Conference 2017 in Review
Jack Hale of FEniCS Project was kind enough to share his summary of the recent 2017 FEniCS conference, for which NumFOCUS provided some travel funds. Read on below! The FEniCS Conference 2017 brought together 82 participants from around the world for a conference on...
Belinda Weaver joins Carpentries as Community Development Lead
Belinda Weaver was recently hired by the Carpentries as their new Community Development Lead. We are delighted to welcome her to the NumFOCUS family! Here, Belinda introduces herself to the community and invites your participation and feedback on her work. I am very...
Why Is NumPy Only Now Getting Funded?
Recently we announced that NumPy, a foundational package for scientific computing with Python, had received its first-ever grant funding since the start of the project in 2006. Community interest in this announcement was massive, raising our website traffic by over...