Congratulations Sayed!
On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 2:05 AM Brigitta Sipőcz <b.sipocz+numpyl...@gmail.com> 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. >> 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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-discussion-le...@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/numpy-discussion.python.org/ >> Member address: b.sipocz+numpyl...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-discussion-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/numpy-discussion.python.org/ > Member address: evgeny.burovs...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-discussion-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/numpy-discussion.python.org/ Member address: arch...@mail-archive.com
