NumFOCUS Awards Development Grants to Open Source Projects – Spring 2018
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,...
Project Jupyter Receives ACM Software System Award
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...
The Worldwide Pandas Documentation Sprint: A Closer Look
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...
Bokeh joins NumFOCUS Sponsored 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...