The new NumFOCUS admin board met for the first time this week and I can say that I am truly honored to serve the community in this capacity. NumFOCUS has been a leading example of how to build open source culture and provide services to our scientific tool makers. With …

I seem to be waking up with purpose every morning so I felt it good to get a list of things I would like to do in 2025. Yeah this list is too long but gives my future self a direction.

Daily General Life

The heavens declare the glory; the …

You accomplish less in one year than you want more more in 10 than you ever expect.

These words of wisdom seem attributed to Bill Gates. This year of any, I started to see their meaning. The past year represented a pretty stark departure from the last decade of my …

Seems the first duty as a new director at NumFOCUS is to determine when we should be meeting. Simple question deserves a blog post with far too much reflection, but hey I promised more transparency in decision making to numerous NumFOCUS constituents. In my experience through many boards at NumFOCUS …

A few weeks ago, I was elected to a new term on the NumFOCUS board. This time it is the Admin board while a newly created Technical Steering council has also been formed. One can see some of the differences of the two group on the election webpage. This group …

Last weekend I was working at the concession stand. I’m a board member of the local recreation baseball league and the assigned team to work the stand didn’t show up. For those new to the economics of kid sports, the concession stand is where flexible spending comes from …

I, Andy R. Terrel, issue a personal apology to Jeremy Howard and the Community for the handling of the JupyterCon 2020 Code of Conduct reports. As the ranking board member on the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct Enforcement Committee (COCEC), it was my duty to oversee a fair process and that …

A NumFOCUS History: Sustaining Open Source Scientific Codes

After a few of the last board meetings and discussions on board votes, I’ve been pondering a number of questions. Questions about who is NumFOCUS and why we exist. Where we are going and what problems in the world we would …

SciPy2014 is over, but there is so much more to do. I expect to be reviving my blog with a set of prose on my experience. Today I want to talk about a topic that was dear to my heart when I started this blog, diversity in the scientific python …

So long academia and thanks for all the debates!

Today is my last day of a wonderful three years at the University of Texas at Austin. Starting Monday, following Jake Vanderplas' terminology, I join the big data brain drain. I will be joining Continuum Analytics a their Chief Computational Scientist …