NumFOCUS (https://www.numfocus.org/) is a non-profit organization that supports projects related to open source science computing. Companies such as Microsoft and IBM are participating as partners.
Even for the most well-known open source projects, it is often financially difficult to support the community with non-profit volunteers alone, and NumFOCUS says that such projects will continue to work. Our mission is to serve as a receiver for financial support.
In order to become a support project, it is necessary for the purpose to specialize in ** scientific computing or data science **, and it seems that development of general-purpose tools (IDE, utilities, general-purpose programming language and tool development) is not suitable. .. Educational activities are also good fit if the purpose is scientific computing or data science. Other specific requirements can be found on the here page.
A list of projects financially supported by NumFOCUS. It seems that there are many Python-related projects because it was originally started as a base to support major Python projects. It includes not only library development but also educational activity projects.
| project | Activity content |
|---|---|
| AstroPy | Python package development for astronomy |
| Data Carpentry | Data science educational activities |
| FEniCS Project | Development of tools for PDEs |
| IPython | Python's powerful interactive shell |
| Julia | Dynamic programming language for scientific computing |
| Matplotlib | Python 2D graph drawing library |
| nteract | A document creation program that contains executable code |
| NumPy | Basic Python library for scientific computing |
| Project Jupyter | Tools for Interactive Computing |
| pandas | Python library for data analysis |
| PyMC3 | Bayesian statistical model Python library |
| PyTables | Python library for hierarchical datasets |
| QuantEcon | Computing skill support for economic model |
| rOpenSci | R software group that supports the workflow of scientists |
| Software Carpentry | Computing education for scientists |
| SunPy | Python library for solar physics |
| SymPy | CAS with Python(Computer algebra system)Library |
| Stan | Language for data analysis that can be automatically estimated by many statistical models |
| yt | Analysis and visualization tools for volumetric data in Python |