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09  avril     18h02
NumFOCUS Welcomes Tesco Technology to Corporate Sponsors
Terry Foor    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 . We are very excited to formalize our partnership with Tesco Technology, said Leah Silen, NumFOCUS...
08  avril     21h14
Job Posting Communications and Marketing Manager
Admin    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...
10  février     19h54
Job Posting Events and Digital Marketing Coordinator
Admin    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...
18  décembre     21h21
NumFOCUS hires Open Source Developer Advocate
Admin    NumFOCUS is pleased to announce that Arliss Collins has been hired as our organization’s first Open Source Developer Advocate. Founded in , NumFOCUS has finally grown beyond just providing non technical needs for our sponsored projects As our first technical hire, Arliss will work to help...
11  décembre     19h37
A Pivotal Time in NumFOCUS’s Project Aimed DEI Efforts
Admin    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...
23  novembre     14h44
Anaconda Announces Multi-Year Partnership with NumFOCUS
Terry Foor    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...
18  novembre     18h36
NumFOCUS Receives Support from Heising-Simons
Terry Foor    NumFOCUS is grateful to announce that we received a grant award of , 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...
04  novembre     00h10
JupyterCon 2020: Code of Conduct Reports
Admin    Following the reports to the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct committee on Jeremy Howard’s keynote at JupyterCon , 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...
30  octobre     18h51
Public Apology to Jeremy Howard
Admin    We, the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct Enforcement Committee, issue a public apology to Jeremy Howard for our handling of the JupyterCon 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...
26  octobre     18h13
TARDIS Joins NumFOCUS as a Sponsored Project
Admin    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...
23  octobre     15h25
NumFOCUS Earns Transparency Recognition from GuideStar
Terry Foor    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 of US based nonprofits have received this type of...
31  juillet     17h52
Dask Life Sciences Fellow [Open Job]
Admin    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...