by Gina Helfrich, Ph.D. (Communications Director, NumFOCUS) | Apr 18, 2018 | Blog, Corporate Sponsors
Optiver Supports Open Source Scientific Computing through NumFOCUS Corporate Sponsorship NumFOCUS is pleased to announce that Optiver is now a Corporate Sponsor at the Bronze Level. “At Optiver we use NumFOCUS sponsored open source projects every day”...
by Gina Helfrich, Ph.D. (Communications Director, NumFOCUS) | 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 Gina Helfrich, Ph.D. (Communications Director, NumFOCUS) | Mar 20, 2018 | Blog, Diversity & Inclusion (DISC)
DISC Committee Nominations are open! Nominations are open for membership on the NumFOCUS Diversity & Inclusion in Scientific Computing (DISC) Committee. DISC Mission NumFOCUS recognizes that the open source data science community is currently highly homogenous....
by Gina Helfrich, Ph.D. (Communications Director, NumFOCUS) | 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 Gina Helfrich, Ph.D. (Communications Director, NumFOCUS) | Mar 14, 2018 | Blog
Thank you, Matt! The NumFOCUS team expresses our sincere thanks to Matt Turk for his service on the Board of Directors. Matt first joined the board in 2015 and is stepping down this spring after three years helping to lead the organization through a period of rapid...
by Gina Helfrich, Ph.D. (Communications Director, NumFOCUS) | 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 theatricals and...
