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Organization Profile

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  • Why does your org want to participate in Google Summer of Code?

    NumFOCUS promotes and supports research and development of open-source computing tools. It is the fiscal sponsor for cutting-edge, high-profile data science and numeric computing tools such as numpy, pandas, Jupyter, Julia, and rOpenSci.

    NumFOCUS would like to participate in Google Summer of Code 2017 as an umbrella organization for these tools in continuance of its mission. By participating, we hope to provide our community with another opportunity to help develop critical pieces of the open-source data science and numeric computing ecosystem.

  • How many potential mentors have agreed to mentor this year?

    11-15

  • How will you keep mentors engaged with their students?

    We plan to engage our project leaders and students on a regular basis to ensure that measurable, achievable goals are set for their Summer of Code projects, that progress is being made toward their completion, and that there is clear communication of expectations and adequate knowledge-sharing between mentors and students.

    Our individual projects have different organizing strategies, and we intend to respect these, relying on our board of directors and project management staff to also guarantee that Summer of Code participants will have a positive and rewarding experience and ensure that their participation in these projects will have clear, tangible results.

  • How will you help your students stay on schedule to complete their projects?

    We believe that measurable, achievable goals and clear, transparent expectations are necessary in order to ensure that both students and the projects have a positive experience with the Summer of Code program. To facilitate this, we intend to meet with project leaders and students on a regular basis to allow them to report any issues they have encountered. Of course, for day-to-day progress on issues, we intend to use tools like GitHub and Bugtrack.

    Furthermore, we offer students some unique opportunities to share their work and their progress with the broader open source scientific and numeric computing community. We believe that these will also serve as incentives to keep their projects on track with tangible, presentable results. We intend to offer students the opportunity to present their progress to the entire NumFOCUS community via blog posts hosted and distributed on NumFOCUS.org, via sections in our regular newsletter, and via speaking opportunities at conferences.

  • How will you get your students involved in your community during GSoC?

    The NumFOCUS community is passionate, engaged, and growing. We have many conferences and chapters (meetups) planned for 2017 around the world. We will offer students the opportunity to present their work at one of those conferences or chapter meetups and facilitate connections to allow them to present their work at other non-affiliated events.

    Furthermore, we intend to ask students to present their progress to our community on a regular basis. We will promote these progress reports via the NumFOCUS newsletter, Twitter feed, and our public blog.

  • How will you keep students involved in your community after GSoC?

    We intend to invite GSoC participants to present their work at future conferences and chapter meetups that we support. Additionally, individual projects under NumFOCUS have their own respective communities, and have historically had great experiences involving and engaging volunteer contributors.

  • Has your org been accepted as a mentoring org in Google Summer of Code before?

    Yes

  • Which years did your org participate in GSoC?

    2015, 2016

  • What is your success/fail rate per year?

    2015: 3/3, 2016: 7/7

  • Are you part of a foundation/umbrella organization?

    No.

  • What year was your project started?

    2012

  • Anything else we should know?

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  • Short Description

    NumFOCUS supports and promotes world-class, innovative, open source scientific software.

  • Description

    NumFOCUS supports and promotes world-class, innovative, open source scientific software. Most individual projects, even the wildly successful ones, find the overhead of a non-profit to be too large for their community to bear. NumFOCUS provides a critical service as an umbrella organization for this projects.

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