Awesome, nice to see that this also helps Arrow!
On Tue, Oct 7, 2025, at 7:04 PM, Jacob Wujciak wrote: > Awesome, great work! > Dankeschön! > > Am Di., 7. Okt. 2025 um 17:43 Uhr schrieb Wes McKinney <[email protected] >>: > >> Great news for the project! >> >> On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM William Ayd <[email protected] >> .invalid> >> wrote: >> >> > Great work and congratulations! >> > >> > Sent from my iPhone >> > >> > > On Oct 7, 2025, at 10:38 AM, Ian Cook <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > >> > > Big thanks to the team at QuantStack for initiating this! >> > > >> > > Ian >> > > >> > >> On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 10:34 AM Jonathan Keane <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > >> >> > >> Wonderful news, congratulations! >> > >> >> > >> -Jon >> > >> >> > >> >> > >>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 9:32 AM Rok Mihevc <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > >>> >> > >>> This is great news and hopefully a sign of a trend. >> > >>> >> > >>> Best, >> > >>> Rok >> > >>> >> > >>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> >> > >> wrote: >> > >>> >> > >>>> >> > >>>> Hello, >> > >>>> >> > >>>> We would like to announce that the German government-backed >> Sovereign >> > >>>> Tech Agency has decided to fund critical maintenance and >> > >>>> infrastructure-related tasks for Apache Arrow. The grant is handled >> by >> > >>>> QuantStack, a French and European open source scientific software >> > >>>> company which employs two Arrow PMC members, Raúl Cumplido and I. >> > >>>> >> > >>>> This allows funding core work that is unlikely to be paid for by >> > >> regular >> > >>>> corporate clients, and represents around 0.8 FTE during 2 years. >> > >>>> As a matter of fact, we have already started working on some of the >> > >>>> items planned by this grant. I am improving the fuzzing setup for >> the >> > >>>> IPC and Parquet readers in C++, while Raúl is doing a lot of >> important >> > >>>> background work on continuous integration and release management. >> > >>>> >> > >>>> You can find a more detailed announcement here: >> > >>>> >> > >>>> >> > >>> >> > >> >> > >> https://medium.com/@QuantStack/sovereign-tech-agency-invests-in-apache-arrows-future-with-quantstack-d2f84c21c2cc >> > >>>> >> > >>>> Feel free to repost! >> > >>>> >> > >>>> Regards >> > >>>> >> > >>>> Antoine. >> > >>>> >> > >>>> >> > >>> >> > >> >> > >>
