On Thursday I had the pleasure to be at GitHub Satellite, together with quite a few other maintainers from projects throughout our ecosystem, and see NumPy, Matplotlib, AstroPy and other projects highlighted prominently in Nat Friedman's keynote. It included the story of the black hole image, and the open source software that enabled that image. It's the first 21 minutes of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAbJkn4uRL4.
Also, we now have "used by" for each repo and the dependency graph (
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/network/dependents): right now there are 205,240 repos and 13,877 packages on GitHub that depend on NumPy. Those numbers were not easy to get before, so very useful to have them in the UI now.