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. > > > > >
