Organizers

This event is organized and run by all volunteers:

NUMPY Contributors

NumPy is a library that is used around the world. Open source sprints are typically limited to where contributors live or where major conferences are held. We are fortunate to have support from several Numpy contributors:

Melissa Mendonça

Melissa is an applied mathematician and former university professor turned software engineer. She works at Quansight, developing open-source software and working on consulting projects. She has been involved with the Brazilian Python community for some time, with a focus on outreach and education. Currently, she leads the Documentation Team and works as a maintainer for NumPy.

Matti Picus

Matti is a maintainer of NumPy and a core dev of PyPy. He works at Quansight Labs. He has a wide range of experience in industry around image and processing and near-realtime systems. He has worked with large corporations on training and open-source management, and loves mentoring and teaching.

Ross Barnowski

Ross is a scientific software developer at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science who works primarily on scientific Python projects such as NetworkX and NumPy. With a background in radiation instrumentation, he is a strong believer in and advocate for open source software for scientific research and the public good.

Ralf Gommers

Ralf has been deeply involved in the SciPy and PyData communities for over a decade. He is a maintainer of NumPy, SciPy and data-apis.org, and has contributed widely throughout the SciPy ecosystem. He served on the NumFOCUS Board of Directors from 2012-2018.

Ralf co-directs Quansight Labs, which consists of developers, community managers, designers, and documentation writers who build open-source technology and grow open-source communities around data science and scientific computing projects.

ACKNOWLEMENTS:

Tania Allard

Cheuk Ting Ho

Tania and Cheuk created mentored sprints: an open effort to tackle some diversity and inclusion issues in the open-source community. As part of this they created a handbook for successful online open source sprints. You can find the Github repo of the project here.