Nice! And thank you!
On Wed, Oct 28, 2026 at 2:46 AM Alenka Frim <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > We would like to announce that the German government-backed Sovereign > Tech Agency has decided to contract research and development work for > PyArrow. > The application to the Sovereign Tech Fund program has been handled by > Apache Arrow > committers: me, Nic Crane, Rok Mihevc and Tadeja Kadunc. Open Source > Collective will > serve as fiscal host, managing the finances on behalf of Arctos Alliance. > > This contract allows funding the work that has stalled and is unlikely to > be paid for by regular > corporate sponsors. It represents on average 1.9 FTE during the remaining of > 2026 and full of 2027. > > Me, Rok and Tadeja already started with pushing forward the PyArrow > annotations work > in which Rok already invested lots of his time in. Nic is continuing with > the work on issue > backlog, looking at unaddressed bug reports that have existed for multiple > years. Nic will > also focus on the project’s AI readiness: designing and implementing the > tooling to help > maintainers deal with the high amount of agentic contributions. In 2027 I > plan to research > if full documentation can be built without the need to have PyArrow > installed which will be > linked to the type annotations work. I also plan to spend the remaining of > 2027 on improving > the documentation: Python User Guide, API examples and the Cookbook. Tadeja > will focus > her time in 2027 on improving Extension Type support in PyArrow and related > compute kernels. > > We look forward to working and collaborating on the above topics! > > Best, > Alenka
