I'm very pleased to announce that NumPy and OpenBLAS just received a $195,000 grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, through its Essential Open Source Software for Science (EOSS) program! This is good news for both projects, and I'm particularly excited about the types of activities we'll be undertaking, what this will mean in terms of growing the community, and to be part of the first round of funded projects of this visionary program.
The program
The press release gives a high level overview of the program, and the grantee website lists the 32 successful applications. Other projects that got funded include SciPy and Matplotlib (it's the very first significant funding for both projects!), Pandas, Zarr, scikit-image, JupyterHub, and Bioconda - we're in good company!
Nicholas Sonofriew and Dario Taborelli, two of the people driving the EOSS program, wrote a blog post that's well worth reading about the motivations for starting this program and the 42 projects that applied and got funded: The Invisible Foundations of Biomedicine.
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