[Numpy-discussion] Numpy funding update

[Ralf Gommers]

Hi all,

A quick good news message: OSDC has made a $5k contribution to NumFOCUS,
which is split between support for a women in technology workshop and
support for Numpy:
http://www.numfocus.org/blog/osdc-donates-5k-to-support-numpy-women-in-tech
This was a very nice surprise to me, and a first sign that the FSA (fiscal
sponsorship agreement) we recently signed with NumFOCUS is going to yield
significant benefits for Numpy.

NumFOCUS is also doing a special end-of-year fundraiser. Funds donated (up
to $5k) will be tripled by anonymous sponsors:
http://www.numfocus.org/blog/numfocus-end-of-year-fundraising-drive-5000-matching-gift-challenge
So think of Numpy (or your other favorite NumFOCUS-sponsored project of
course) if you're considering a holiday season charitable gift!

Cheers,
Ralf

[Robert Kern]

Post by Ralf Gommers
Hi all,
A quick good news message: OSDC has made a $5k contribution to NumFOCUS,

which is split between support for a women in technology workshop and
support for Numpy:
http://www.numfocus.org/blog/osdc-donates-5k-to-support-numpy-women-in-tech

Post by Ralf Gommers
This was a very nice surprise to me, and a first sign that the FSA

(fiscal sponsorship agreement) we recently signed with NumFOCUS is going to
yield significant benefits for Numpy.

Post by Ralf Gommers
NumFOCUS is also doing a special end-of-year fundraiser. Funds donated

(up to $5k) will be tripled by anonymous sponsors:
http://www.numfocus.org/blog/numfocus-end-of-year-fundraising-drive-5000-matching-gift-challenge

Post by Ralf Gommers
So think of Numpy (or your other favorite NumFOCUS-sponsored project of

course) if you're considering a holiday season charitable gift!

That sounds great! Do we have any concrete plans for spending that money,
yet?

--
Robert Kern

[Ralf Gommers]

Post by Ralf Gommers

Post by Ralf Gommers
Hi all,
A quick good news message: OSDC has made a $5k contribution to NumFOCUS,

which is split between support for a women in technology workshop and
http://www.numfocus.org/blog/osdc-donates-5k-to-support-numpy-women-in-tech

Post by Ralf Gommers
This was a very nice surprise to me, and a first sign that the FSA

(fiscal sponsorship agreement) we recently signed with NumFOCUS is going to
yield significant benefits for Numpy.

Post by Ralf Gommers
NumFOCUS is also doing a special end-of-year fundraiser. Funds donated

http://www.numfocus.org/blog/numfocus-end-of-year-fundraising-drive-5000-matching-gift-challenge

Post by Ralf Gommers
So think of Numpy (or your other favorite NumFOCUS-sponsored project of

course) if you're considering a holiday season charitable gift!
That sounds great! Do we have any concrete plans for spending that money,
yet?

There are:
1. developer meetings
2. MingwPy
3. TBD - Numpy code/infrastructure work

Some initial plans were discussed and documented during the first Numpy
developer meeting at Scipy'15. See wiki page [1] and meeting minutes [2].

Funding for facilitating more developer meetings (~1 a year) is definitely
on the radar. Plans for funding development of new features or other
code/infrastructure work are still fuzzy (except for MingwPy, see my email
of today on that).

We need to transfer the relevant part of those meeting minutes [2] into the
docs, and expand upon those to get a clear roadmap online that we can build
on. This is work for the next months I think.

Cheers,
Ralf

[1] https://github.com/numpy/numpy/wiki/SciPy-2015-developer-meeting
[2]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IJcYdsHtk8MVAM4AZqFDBSf_nVG-mrB4Tv2bh9u1g4Y/edit?usp=sharing