Great news for the project! On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM William Ayd <[email protected]> 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. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >> >
