Jul 24NumFOCUS partners with OutreachyWritten by Anita Opara We are thrilled about our recent partnership with Outreachy, an exceptional open-source platform providing internships in open source and open science. This collaboration has brought us a talented new team member, Anita (Chi Chi) Opara, who is currently serving as an Outreachy intern here at NumFocus. …Outreachy2 min readOutreachy2 min read
Apr 12Now Hiring — Part 2!Join our team as the Project DEI Coordinator. The primary role of the Project DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) Coordinator is to work closely with our open-source data science projects on testing DEI best practices and helping to develop a peer mentoring and leadership training program for scientific open-source project…4 min read4 min read
Apr 11Now Hiring!Open Source Science Program Manager The primary role of the Open Source Science Program Manager is to connect open science stakeholders using and developing open source software through the NumFOCUS Open Source Science (OSSci) initiative. You will facilitate networking opportunities that bring together individuals from NumFOCUS projects, academia, government, and…4 min read4 min read
Mar 30Theano UpdateWritten by: Chris Fonnesbeck, PyMC Theano was an open-source Python library designed to optimize and evaluate mathematical expressions that involve multi-dimensional arrays (i.e. tensors). It was developed by a team of researchers at the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA), led by Yoshua Bengio, in collaboration with the University of…Theano2 min readTheano2 min read
Feb 2PyData Seattle Returns!It’s been a minute, but PyData Seattle is back, and we couldn’t be more excited! We want to share all the must-know information about the upcoming conference this Spring. It will take place April 26–28 at the Microsoft Conference Center, and early bird tickets are available until February 15. Keynote Speakers Katrina…1 min read1 min read
Jan 18Executives at PyData Global 2022Write-up by: Ian Ozsvald and Lauren Oldja License: Creative Commons, By Attribution (CC BY 4.0) — Event date: 2022–12–01 Abstract: This is the 6th Executives at PyData, a discussion session for anyone in a leadership role who wants to share solutions and discuss issues focused on running successful data science projects. This is the first time we’ve written-up the discussion for wider distribution. A set of questions were discussed during…Pydata11 min readPydata11 min read
Jan 112022 Annual Fundraiser Recap, thank you for your support!2022 was a special year for us at NumFOCUS as it marked our 10th Anniversary. …2 min read2 min read
Dec 13, 2022Meet our New Board Members!We’d like to welcome Larry Gray and Noa Tamir as new NumFOCUS Board of Directors members. As active participants in the NumFOCUS ecosystem, Noa and Larry bring key expertise and experience across critical sectors, including open source project communities, inclusivity, education, and communication. …2 min read2 min read
Nov 29, 2022#GivingTuesday: Year-End Fundraiser Kicks Off Today!Make Your Mark on Open Science Discovery in 2023 A very happy #GivingTuesday and warm season’s greetings! 2022 has been a monumental year for NumFOCUS and our projects, marking our organization’s 10th anniversary (pause for reflection and applause). Our annual Year-End Fundraiser kicks off today, and we hope you can…Givingtuesday2 min readGivingtuesday2 min read
Oct 20, 2022NumFOCUS’ 7th Time as a GSoC Umbrella Organization!Google Summer of Code 2022 has recently wrapped up with 22 of our open source projects mentoring students. Here are the projects who participated: ArviZ, CB-Geo MPM, CuPy, CVXPY, Data Retriever, FEniCS, FluxML, GeoPandas, Gridap, LFortran, NetworkX, Optuna, pvlib, PyBaMM, PyMC, PySAL, PyTorch-Ignite, QuTiP, SciML, signac, Taskflow and Zarr. You…Google6 min readGoogle6 min read
