I'm excited to be able to share this announcement on behalf of the NumPy Steering Council. We have created a new program, the NumPy Fellowship Program, and offered Sayed Adel the very first Developer in Residence role. Sayed starts his 1 year tenure in that role today, and we are really looking forward to him working on NumPy full-time.

so we are hoping that with guidelines to spend funds plus a concrete fellowship program that we're expecting to be quite impactful, we are now able to confidently tell people that if they donate to NumPy, we will manage their contribution well and translate it into more time for someone on the NumPy team to make NumPy better.