NumFOCUS Summit 2019
NumFOCUS stakeholders came together over the weekend in early November for the annual NumFOCUS Summit, a gathering focused on promoting sustainability for our open source scientific computing projects. The event was hosted in New York City by Microsoft, a NumFOCUS...
2019 NumFOCUS Awards and New Contributor Recognition
The second annual NumFOCUS Awards Dinner was held at the NumFOCUS Summit on the evening of Saturday, November 2, 2019. The NumFOCUS Awards recognize members of the community who have made substantial contributions to our projects, to our ecosystem, and to the open...
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Funds Maintenance of NumFOCUS Projects
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce that six of our fiscally sponsored projects have received grant funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) through their Essential Open Source Software for Science program. The funded projects are: pandas Matplotlib NumPy Project...
NumFOCUS and Tidelift partner to support essential community-led open source data science and scientific computing projects
SciPy, NumPy, and pandas maintainers now participate in the Tidelift managed open source subscription NumFOCUS and Tidelift today announced a partnership to support open source libraries critical to the Python data science and scientific computing ecosystem. NumPy,...