FEniCS Conference 2017 in Review
Jack Hale of FEniCS Project was kind enough to share his summary of the recent 2017 FEniCS conference, for which NumFOCUS provided some travel funds. Read on below! The FEniCS Conference 2017 brought together 82 participants from around the world for a conference on...
Why Is NumPy Only Now Getting Funded?
Recently we announced that NumPy, a foundational package for scientific computing with Python, had received its first-ever grant funding since the start of the project in 2006. Community interest in this announcement was massive, raising our website traffic by over...
NumPy receives first ever funding, thanks to Moore Foundation
For the first time ever, NumPy—a core project for the Python scientific computing stack—has received grant funding. The proposal, “Improving NumPy for Better Data Science” will receive $645,020 from the Moore Foundation over 2 years, with the funding going...
NumFOCUS adds Shogun Machine Learning Toolbox to Sponsored Projects
NumFOCUS is delighted to announce the addition of the Shogun Machine Learning Toolbox to our fiscally sponsored projects. Shogun’s mission is to make powerful machine learning tools available to everyone —researchers, engineers, students — anyone curious to experiment...
Python in Astronomy 2017
#pyastro17 brought together 54 participants from five continents for a wide-ranging workshop on Python in Astronomy.