NumFOCUS Projects Accepted to Inaugural Google Season of Docs
UPDATE! 5 NumFOCUS Projects Accepted to Google Season of Docs We are thrilled to report that 5 NumFOCUS projects were accepted as part of the inaugural cohort of 50 Google Season of Docs (GSoD) organizations. Which is to say, fully 10% of all accepted GSoD...
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...
Julia Co-Creators To Receive 2019 James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software
NumFOCUS is pleased to congratulate Julia co-creators Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski and Viral Shah on winning the 2019 James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software. Julia’s co-creators set out to solve the two language problem by creating a new language...
NumFOCUS Funds Open Source Projects through Small Development Grants – Fall 2018
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...