NumFOCUS Welcomes Sam Brice as inaugural Visiting Fellow

NumFOCUS Welcomes Sam Brice as inaugural Visiting Fellow

We are excited to announce Two Sigma engineer Sam Brice as our inaugural NumFOCUS Visiting Fellow! The NumFOCUS Visiting Fellows Program is an opportunity for individuals employed at corporations or research labs to join the NumFOCUS staff for a designated time...
Blosc joins NumFOCUS Sponsored Projects

Blosc joins NumFOCUS Sponsored Projects

NumFOCUS is pleased to announce the newest addition to our fiscally sponsored projects: Blosc, a very high performance meta-compressor specially designed for compressing binary data. Blosc is a high performance compression library written in C that uses the blocking...
Gina Helfrich on the Changelog Podcast

Gina Helfrich on the Changelog Podcast

I was happy to be an invited guest on the popular Changelog podcast to talk about NumFOCUS and open source sustainability, the difference between sponsored and affiliated projects, corporate backing, and more. You can listen to my conversation with Adam Stacoviak and...
NumFOCUS Announces Netflix as Corporate Sponsor

NumFOCUS Announces Netflix as Corporate Sponsor

NumFOCUS is pleased to announce Netflix as our newest Silver Corporate Sponsor. “It’s fantastic to have Netflix on board as a Corporate Sponsor,” said Leah Silen, NumFOCUS Executive Director. “Their support of nteract will fund the creation of a developer guide for...