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 >
