NumFOCUS is pleased to announce our new partnership with Tesco Technology. A long-time PyData event sponsor, Tesco Technology joined NumFOCUS as a Silver Corporate Sponsor in December 2020. “We are very excited to formalize our partnership with Tesco Technology,” said Leah Silen, NumFOCUS Executive Director. “Tesco Technology has partnered with NumFOCUS for the past several […] The post NumFOCUS Welcomes Tesco Technology to Corporate Sponsors appeared first on NumFOCUS.| NumFOCUS
Job Title: Communications and Marketing Manager Position Overview The primary role of the Communications & Marketing Manager is to manage the NumFOCUS brand by overseeing all outgoing communications between NumFOCUS and our stakeholders. You will serve the project communities by playing a key role in their event marketing management and assist with project promotional and […] The post Job Posting | Communications and Marketing Manager appeared first on NumFOCUS.| NumFOCUS
Job Title: Events and Digital Marketing Coordinator Position Overview The primary role of the Events and Digital Marketing Coordinator is to support and assist the Events Manager and the Community Communications and Marketing Manager to advance one of NumFOCUS’s primary missions of educating and building the community of users and developers of open source scientific […] The post Job Posting | Events and Digital Marketing Coordinator appeared first on NumFOCUS.| NumFOCUS
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce that Arliss Collins has been hired as our organization’s first Open Source Developer Advocate. Founded in 2012, NumFOCUS has finally grown beyond just providing non-technical needs for our 40+ sponsored projects! As our first technical hire, Arliss will work to help understand our projects from a technical perspective and […] The post NumFOCUS hires Open Source Developer Advocate! appeared first on NumFOCUS.| NumFOCUS
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce the launch of our Contributor Diversification & Retention Research Project funded by a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. “We were eager to support NumFOCUS’s diversity initiative because it aims to get to the heart of what is preventing greater participation in data science. We are hopeful that […] The post A Pivotal Time in NumFOCUS’s Project Aimed DEI Efforts appeared first on NumFOCUS.| NumFOCUS
A key stakeholder in the open source scientific computing ecosystem has further formalized their long-standing partnership with NumFOCUS. Anaconda, the Austin, Texas-based software development and consulting company which provides global distribution of Python and R software packages, last month introduced their Anaconda Dividend Program. Through this initiative, Anaconda plans to direct a portion of their […] The post Anaconda Announces Multi-Year Partnership with NumFOCUS appeared first o...| NumFOCUS
NumFOCUS is grateful to announce that we received a grant award of $50,000 in October from the Heising-Simons Foundation. This generous grant funding will provide general support resources to NumFOCUS and will benefit all of our Sponsored and Affiliated Projects as well as our organization’s several programs and initiatives. “This grant award from Heising-Simons will […] The post NumFOCUS Receives Support from Heising-Simons appeared first on NumFOCUS.| NumFOCUS
Following the reports to the NumFOCUS Code-of-Conduct committee on Jeremy Howard’s keynote at JupyterCon 2020, and the controversy that followed, the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct Committee issued a public apology to Jeremy Howard and escalated the case to the board of directors. The context In his keynote at JupyterCon 2020, Jeremy Howard gave a point-by-point rebuttal of […] The post JupyterCon 2020: Code of Conduct Reports appeared first on NumFOCUS.| NumFOCUS
We, the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct Enforcement Committee, issue a public apology to Jeremy Howard for our handling of the JupyterCon 2020 reports. We should have done better. We thank you for sharing your experience and we will use it to improve our policies going forward. We acknowledge that it was an extremely stressful experience, […] The post Public Apology to Jeremy Howard appeared first on NumFOCUS.| NumFOCUS
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce the newest addition to our fiscally sponsored projects: TARDIS TARDIS is an open-source, Monte Carlo based radiation transport simulator for supernovae ejecta. TARDIS simulates photons traveling through the outer layers of an exploded star including relevant physics like atomic interactions between the photons and the expanding gas. The TARDIS collaboration […] The post TARDIS Joins NumFOCUS as a Sponsored Project appeared first on NumFOCUS.| NumFOCUS
Earlier this week, NumFOCUS earned our first-ever Silver Seal of Transparency from GuideStar, an independent organization which classifies nonprofit organizations based on multiple metrics pertaining to transparency and accountability. Fewer than 5% of US-based nonprofits have received this type of recognition. “This respected acknowledgment comes as we prepare to enter our year-end fundraising season,” said […] The post NumFOCUS Earns Transparency Recognition from GuideStar appeared fi...| NumFOCUS
Dask is an open-source library for parallel computing in Python that interoperates with existing Python data science libraries like Numpy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, and Jupyter. Dask is used today across many different scientific domains. Recently, we’ve observed an increase in use in a few life sciences applications: Large scale imaging in microscopy Single cell analysis Genomics […]| NumFOCUS