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Enabling open code for science at NumFOCUS
We’re talking with Gina Helfrich the Communications Director for NumFOCUS about their story and history, the impact of open code on science, the difference between sponsored and affiliated projects, corporate backing, the back story of their education and events program PyData, and the struggles of storytelling and fundraising.
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Featuring
- Gina Helfrich – Twitter
- Adam Stacoviak – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub
Notes and Links
- Special thanks to Bryan W. Weber for suggesting this episode
- NumFOCUS — Open Code • Better Science
- NumFOCUS — Sponsored projects
- NumFOCUS — Affiliated projects
- We talked Spack on Request for Commits #13 with Todd Gamblin
- We talked rOpenSci on The Changelog #263 with Karthik Ram
- PyData.org
- Digitizing images of the Sun from the 1970s with SunPy Maps