I feel delighted and more motivated to work. I am now working on
accepting the new reality and organize the tasks entrusted to me. Thanks
to the NumPy team who supported me from the beginning until now.
Thanks, Sayed.
On 12/2/22 01:03, Brigitta Sipőcz wrote:
Wonderful news, congratulations Sayed!
Brigitta
On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 at 13:18, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm excited to be able to share this announcement on behalf of the
NumPy Steering Council. We have created a new program, the NumPy
Fellowship Program, and offered Sayed Adel the very first
Developer in Residence role. Sayed starts his 1 year tenure in
that role today, and we are really looking forward to him working
on NumPy full-time.
We wrote a blog post about the program, and why we offered the
role to Sayed:
https://blog.scientific-python.org/numpy/fellowship-program/. I've
copied the blog post content at the end of this email.
In addition, here is some more detail on NumPy project finances
that didn't make it into the blog post (which is likely to have a
wider audience than the readership of this mailing list), but is
quite relevant to share here:
Over the past decade, NumPy has accumulated individual donations
as well as payments from Tidelift. NumPy has been a fiscally
sponsored project of NumFOCUS for a decade - meaning that
NumFOCUS, as a 501(c)3 nonprofit, administers funds for NumPy. As
a result, NumPy has accumulated funds for a long time - and those
are now transparently administered on Open Collective
<https://opencollective.com/numpy>. There you will see a "general
fund", currently with a ~$23,000 balance, and two open "projects"
with committed funding - one for the active CZI grant we have, and
one for this new Fellowship Program. Guidelines for using those
funds are described in
https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0048-spending-project-funds.html.
Finally it is worth pointing out that we are now able to solicit
donations on Open Collective, and have added contribution tiers on
the front page of https://opencollective.com/numpy. Until now, we
have never actively solicited donations as a project, because the
accounting support and transparent financial reporting was not in
place. That has changed now though, so we are hoping that with
guidelines to spend funds plus a concrete fellowship program that
we're expecting to be quite impactful, we are now able to
confidently tell people that if they donate to NumPy, we will
manage their contribution well and translate it into more time for
someone on the NumPy team to make NumPy better.
Cheers,
Ralf
blog post content:
The NumPy team is excited to announce the launch of the NumPy
Fellowship Program and the appointment of Sayed Adel (@seiko2plus)
as the first NumPy Developer in Residence. This is a significant
milestone in the history of the project: for the first time, NumPy
is in a position to use its project funds to pay for a full year
of maintainer time. We believe that this will be an impactful
program that will contribute to NumPy’s long-term sustainability
as a community-driven open source project.
Sayed has been making major contributions to NumPy since the start
of 2020, in particular around computational performance. He is the
main author of the NumPy SIMD architecture (NEP 38, docs),
generously shared his knowledge of SIMD instructions with the core
developer team, and helped integrate the work of various volunteer
and industry contributors in this area. As a result, we’ve been
able to expand support to multiple CPU architectures, integrating
contributions from IBM, Intel, Apple, and others, none of which
would have been possible without Sayed. Furthermore, when NumPy
tentatively started using C++ in 2021, Sayed was one of the
proponents of the move and helped with its implementation.
The NumPy Steering Council sees Sayed’s appointment to this role
as both recognition of his past outstanding contributions as well
as an opportunity to continue improving NumPy’s computational
performance. In the next 12 months, we’d like to see Sayed focus
on the following:
SIMD code maintenance,
code review of SIMD contributions from others,
performance-related features,
sharing SIMD and C++ expertise with the team and growing a
NumPy sub-team around it,
SIMD build system migration to Meson,
and wherever else Sayed’s interests take him.
“I’m both happy and nervous: this is a great opportunity, but
also a great responsibility,” said Sayed in response to his
appointment.
The funds for the NumPy Fellowship Program come from a partnership
with Tidelift and from individual donations. We sincerely thank
both Tidelift and everyone who donated to the project—without you,
this program would not be possible! We also acknowledge the
CPython Developer-in-Residence and the Django Fellowship programs,
which served as inspiration for this program.
Sayed officially starts as the NumPy Developer in Residence today,
1 December 2022. Already, we are thinking about opportunities
beyond this first year: we imagine “in residence” roles that focus
on developing, improving, and maintaining other parts of the NumPy
project (e.g., documentation, website, translations, contributor
experience, etc.). We look forward to this exciting new chapter of
the NumPy contributor community and will keep you posted on our
progress.
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