Labs update and May highlights

Time flies when you're having fun. Here is an update of some of the highlights of my second month at Quansight Labs.

The making of a black hole image & GitHub Sponsors

Both Travis and myself were invited by GitHub to attend GitHub Satellite in Berlin. The main reason was that Nat Friedman (GitHub CEO) decided to spend the first 20 minutes of his keynote to highlight the Event Horizon Telescope's black hole image and the open source software that made that imaging possible. This included the scientific Python very prominently - NumPy, Matplotlib, Python, Cython, SciPy, AstroPy and other projects were highlighted. At the same time, Nat introduced new GitHub features like "used by", a triaging role and new dependency graph features and illustrated how those worked for NumPy. These features will be very welcome news to maintainers of almost any project.

The single most visible feature introduced was GitHub Sponsors:

I really enjoyed meeting Devon Zuegel, Product Manager of the Open Source Economy Team at GitHub, in person after previously having had

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