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| Established | 2012 |
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| Founders | Fernando Perez, Jarrod Millman, Perry Greenfield, Travis Oliphant |
| Type | 501(c)(3) organization |
| Registration no. | 45-4547709 |
Executive Director | Jim Weiss (interim) |
| Rosie Pongracz, Andy Terrel, Julie Hollek, Mridul Seth, Sanket Verma | |
| Website | numfocus |
The Numerical Foundation for Open Code and Useable Science, often shortened to NumFOCUS, is a non-profit organization based in Austin, Texas. A 501(c)(3) public charity organization, it aims to promote open practices in research, data, and scientific computing by serving as a fiscal sponsor for open source projects and organizing community-driven educational programs.[1][2] The organization is involved in organizing educational programs, events, as well as supporting open source scientific computing projects through fiscal sponsorship.
NumFOCUS was founded in 2012 by Fernando Pérez, Jarrod Millman, Perry Greenfield, and Travis Oliphant.[3] Its board of directors currently consists of Rosie Pongracz, Andy Terrel, Julie Hollek, Mridul Seth, and Sanket Verma.[4] The organization is located in Austin, Texas.[3]
In 2020 NumFocus partnered with IRIS (Institute for Research on Innovation & Science) and Duality Technologies to create a platform for privacy-preserving collaboration data analysis.[5] In 2022, it hosted PyData Yerevan 2022 in collaboration with the American University of Armenia.
Educational programs
[edit]NumFOCUS participates in a number of programs to incentivize contribution from students and encourage diversity in technology, including Google Summer of Code[6] and Outreachy.[7]
Sponsored projects
[edit]NumFOCUS sponsors various projects, generally assuming legal and fiduciary responsibility for them.[8][9]
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