by Admin | Jun 4, 2018 | Blog, Projects
2018 Fellows: Kimberly Orr & Nabarun Pal NumFOCUS and Matplotlib are pleased to announce the selection of Kimberly Orr and Nabarun Pal as the 2018 John Hunter Matplotlib Summer Fellows. About the Fellowship The John Hunter Matplotlib Summer Fellowship,...
by Admin | May 18, 2018 | Blog, Projects
NumFOCUS intends to distribute $60,000 in small developments grants to our sponsored and affiliated projects in 2018. Thanks to a successful fundraising year in 2017, NumFOCUS is able to provide funding to help the projects improve usability, grow their communities,...
by Admin | May 16, 2018 | Blog, Projects
Jupyter recognized by premiere computing society We are proud to announce that the 15 members of the Steering Council of Project Jupyter, a fiscally sponsored project of NumFOCUS, have been awarded the 2017 ACM Software System Award. ACM, the Association for Computing...
by Admin | Mar 27, 2018 | Blog, Projects
A Global Day for Open Source Contribution On March 10, 2018, around 500 people in over 30 locations across multiple timezones came together for a one-day “sprint” to improve the documentation of pandas, a NumFOCUS sponsored project. In the words of one of...
by Admin | Mar 20, 2018 | Blog, Projects
Bokeh joins NumFOCUS NumFOCUS is pleased to announce the newest addition to our fiscally sponsored projects: Bokeh. Bokeh is an interactive visualization library that targets modern web browsers for presentation. Bokeh can help anyone who would like to quickly and...
by Admin | Feb 16, 2018 | Blog, Projects
The following guest post about StanCon2018 was written by Breck Baldwin of Stan. Link to conference website: http://mc-stan.org/events/stancon2018/ Overall Observations StanCon2018 was protected by the divine force that ensures the success of amateur...
