by Admin | Sep 19, 2018 | Blog, Projects
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce the newest addition to our fiscally sponsored projects: xarray. Xarray is an open source library providing high-level, easy-to-use data structures and analysis tools for working with multidimensional labeled datasets and arrays in...
by Admin | Sep 11, 2018 | Blog, Projects
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce the newest addition to our fiscally sponsored projects: conda-forge. Conda-forge builds and distributes software packages, specializing in the hard-to-build or unique packages that often arise in a scientific computing context....
by Admin | Aug 20, 2018 | Blog, Projects
As Fernando Pérez (NumFOCUS Advisory Council member) has stated, when people are expected to work on open source software for free, only the people who can afford to work for free can participate. So long as that is the case, being able to work on open source will...
by Admin | Aug 9, 2018 | Blog, Projects
NumFOCUS congratulates the Julia community on their achievement of the much-anticipated 1.0 release—the culmination of nearly a decade of work to build a language for “greedy programmers.” JuliaCon2018 celebrated the event with a reception where the community...
by Admin | Aug 6, 2018 | Blog, Projects
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce the newest addition to our fiscally sponsored projects: JuMP. JuMP is a modeling interface and a collection of supporting packages for mathematical optimization that is embedded in Julia (also a NumFOCUS sponsored project). With JuMP,...
by Admin | Jul 16, 2018 | Blog, Projects
NumFOCUS was well represented at the 2018 SciPy Conference in Austin, Texas. Presentations given by our projects included: Talks Keynote: SciPy 1.0 and Beyond: A Story of Code and Community by Ralf Gommers Should this Drug be Approved? A Bayesian’s Answer with Stan by...
