That's great! Well done and congrats! Neal
On Wed, Oct 28, 2026 at 9:36 AM Raúl Cumplido <[email protected]> wrote: > Great news! Congratulations! > > El mié, 28 oct 2026 a las 13:19, Antoine Pitrou (<[email protected]>) > escribió: > > > > > > Congratulations Alenka, Rok, Nic and Tadeja! :-) > > > > > > Le 28/10/2026 à 10:46, Alenka Frim a écrit : > > > 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 > > >
