[Numpy-discussion] A second CZI grant for NumPy and OpenBLAS

[Dillon Niederhut]

Congratulations Melissa!

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 2:34 PM Melissa Mendonça <melissawm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm happy to announce that NumPy and OpenBLAS have (again) received a
> joint grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
>
> Here is the official press release [1], medium article [2], and the full
> list of grantees [3]. I also wrote a blog post about it to explain a bit
> more about the details of the proposal [4].
>
> For NumPy, this funding is meant to support activities related to the
> Documentation Team (maintenance, onboarding of new team members), but also
> maintenance and development work for f2py. For this, we are glad to be able
> to support Pearu Peterson and hope we can improve the state of Fortran
> integration [5] in Python.
>
> The grant is for a year of work, starting on January 1st, 2021. I hope
> this can have a positive impact on the community and I am grateful to be
> able to be a part of it.
>
> All comments, questions and considerations are welcome!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Melissa
>
> [1]
> https://chanzuckerberg.com/newsroom/czi-awards-4-7-million-for-open-source-software-and-organizations-advancing-open-science/
> [2]
> https://cziscience.medium.com/scaling-open-infrastructure-and-reproducibility-in-biomedicine-69546a399747
> [3] https://chanzuckerberg.com/eoss/proposals/?cycle=3
> [4]
> https://labs.quansight.org/blog/2020/11/a-second-czi-grant-for-numpy-and-openblas/
> [5] https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/14938
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