Congratulations to all the NumPy team! 🎉
Sayed: I stumbled on a few of your Pull-Requests and your are doing an
incredible highly valuable work on NumPy, one of the world cornerstones. 🤝
I am learning a lot just by reading your contributions! đź’Ż
Julien.
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On Friday, December 2nd, 2022 at 12:50 PM, Sebastian Berg <sebastian@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-12-02 at 03:42 +0200, Sayed Adel wrote:
>
> > I feel delighted and more motivated to work. I am now working on
> > accepting the new reality and organize the tasks entrusted to me.
> > Thanks
> > to the NumPy team who supported me from the beginning until now.
>
>
>
> It is very exciting to have you on the team! Exciting times ahead :).
>
> - Sebastian
>
> > Thanks, Sayed.
> >
> > On 12/2/22 01:03, Brigitta Sipőcz wrote:
> >
> > > Wonderful news, congratulations Sayed!
> > >
> > > Brigitta
> > >
> > > On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 at 13:18, Ralf Gommers ralf.gommers@gmail.com
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > We wrote a blog post about the program, and why we offered the
> > > role to Sayed:
> > > https://blog.scientific-python.org/numpy/fellowship-program/.
> > > I've
> > > copied the blog post content at the end of this email.
> > >
> > > In addition, here is some more detail on NumPy project finances
> > > that didn't make it into the blog post (which is likely to have
> > > a
> > > wider audience than the readership of this mailing list), but
> > > is
> > > quite relevant to share here:
> > >
> > > Over the past decade, NumPy has accumulated individual
> > > donations
> > > as well as payments from Tidelift. NumPy has been a fiscally
> > > sponsored project of NumFOCUS for a decade - meaning that
> > > NumFOCUS, as a 501(c)3 nonprofit, administers funds for NumPy.
> > > As
> > > a result, NumPy has accumulated funds for a long time - and
> > > those
> > > are now transparently administered on Open Collective
> > > https://opencollective.com/numpy. There you will see a
> > > "general
> > > fund", currently with a ~$23,000 balance, and two open
> > > "projects"
> > > with committed funding - one for the active CZI grant we have,
> > > and
> > > one for this new Fellowship Program. Guidelines for using those
> > > funds are described in
> > > https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0048-spending-project-funds.html.
> > >
> > > Finally it is worth pointing out that we are now able to
> > > solicit
> > > donations on Open Collective, and have added contribution tiers
> > > on
> > > the front page of https://opencollective.com/numpy. Until now,
> > > we
> > > have never actively solicited donations as a project, because
> > > the
> > > accounting support and transparent financial reporting was not
> > > in
> > > place. That has changed now though, 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.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Ralf
> > >
> > > blog post content:
> > >
> > > The NumPy team is excited to announce the launch of the NumPy
> > > Fellowship Program and the appointment of Sayed Adel
> > > (@seiko2plus)
> > > as the first NumPy Developer in Residence. This is a
> > > significant
> > > milestone in the history of the project: for the first time,
> > > NumPy
> > > is in a position to use its project funds to pay for a full
> > > year
> > > of maintainer time. We believe that this will be an impactful
> > > program that will contribute to NumPy’s long-term
> > > sustainability
> > > as a community-driven open source project.
> > >
> > > Sayed has been making major contributions to NumPy since the
> > > start
> > > of 2020, in particular around computational performance. He is
> > > the
> > > main author of the NumPy SIMD architecture (NEP 38, docs),
> > > generously shared his knowledge of SIMD instructions with the
> > > core
> > > developer team, and helped integrate the work of various
> > > volunteer
> > > and industry contributors in this area. As a result, we’ve been
> > > able to expand support to multiple CPU architectures,
> > > integrating
> > > contributions from IBM, Intel, Apple, and others, none of which
> > > would have been possible without Sayed. Furthermore, when NumPy
> > > tentatively started using C++ in 2021, Sayed was one of the
> > > proponents of the move and helped with its implementation.
> > >
> > > The NumPy Steering Council sees Sayed’s appointment to this
> > > role
> > > as both recognition of his past outstanding contributions as
> > > well
> > > as an opportunity to continue improving NumPy’s computational
> > > performance. In the next 12 months, we’d like to see Sayed
> > > focus
> > > on the following:
> > >
> > > SIMD code maintenance,
> > > code review of SIMD contributions from others,
> > > performance-related features,
> > > sharing SIMD and C++ expertise with the team and growing a
> > > NumPy sub-team around it,
> > > SIMD build system migration to Meson,
> > > and wherever else Sayed’s interests take him.
> > >
> > > “I’m both happy and nervous: this is a great opportunity,
> > > but
> > > also a great responsibility,” said Sayed in response to his
> > > appointment.
> > >
> > > The funds for the NumPy Fellowship Program come from a
> > > partnership
> > > with Tidelift and from individual donations. We sincerely thank
> > > both Tidelift and everyone who donated to the project—without
> > > you,
> > > this program would not be possible! We also acknowledge the
> > > CPython Developer-in-Residence and the Django Fellowship
> > > programs,
> > > which served as inspiration for this program.
> > >
> > > Sayed officially starts as the NumPy Developer in Residence
> > > today,
> > > 1 December 2022. Already, we are thinking about opportunities
> > > beyond this first year: we imagine “in residence” roles that
> > > focus
> > > on developing, improving, and maintaining other parts of the
> > > NumPy
> > > project (e.g., documentation, website, translations,
> > > contributor
> > > experience, etc.). We look forward to this exciting new chapter
> > > of
> > > the NumPy contributor community and will keep you posted on our
> > > progress.
> > >
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