by Admin | Dec 13, 2018 | Blog
UPDATE (Jan 2, 2019): Thanks to the generosity of our community, NumFOCUS successfully raised over $10,000 to support open source scientific computing! We sincerely thank our corporate sponsor, Quansight, for their matching challenge, and we thank every one of you who...
by nf-admin | Dec 5, 2018 | Blog, Diversity & Inclusion (DISC)
This is a guest post by Samuel Brice, DISC Committee Member, originally posted on Medium. Acknowledgements: Thank you to Two Sigma for hosting DISC ! Afshin Darian and Steve Silvester from the JupyterLab core developers team along with Diego Torres who helped...
by Admin | Nov 27, 2018 | Blog
We’re Not Asking For Money. We’re Saying “Thanks.”Today is “Giving Tuesday” (Nov. 27th). Just after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday and inspired by “Black Friday,” “Small Business Saturday,” and “Cyber Monday,”...
by Admin | Nov 19, 2018 | Blog, Projects
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce recipients of the third and final round of small development grants for 2018. Eligibility for these grants is limited to our Sponsored and Affiliated Projects. This year, NumFOCUS distributed $60,000 in small developments grants to help...
by Admin | Nov 15, 2018 | Blog, Projects
This is a guest post by Keighley Rockcliffe. Coronal Mass Ejections and the Skylab Mission On May 14th, 1973, the US’s first space station, dubbed Skylab, was launched into low-Earth orbit on the last Saturn V rocket launch. Onboard Skylab was a workshop meant for the...
by Admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Blog, Corporate Sponsors
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce NVIDIA is now a Corporate Sponsor at the Gold Level. “NVIDIA’s sponsorship of NumFOCUS represents an investment in the community,” said Andy Terrel, NumFOCUS President. “As two leaders in data science, we feel our work together...