About Us

Some information about the NumPy project and community

NumPy is an open source project aiming to enable numerical computing with Python. It was created in 2005, building on the early work of the Numeric and Numarray libraries. NumPy will always be 100% open source software, free for all to use and released under the liberal terms of the modified BSD license.

NumPy is developed in the open on GitHub, through the consensus of the NumPy and wider scientific Python community. For more information on our governance approach, please see our Governance Document.

Steering Council

The role of the NumPy Steering Council is to ensure, through working with and serving the broader NumPy community, the long-term well-being of the project, both technically and as a community. The NumPy Steering Council currently consists of the following members (in alphabetical order):

• Sebastian Berg
• Ralf Gommers
• Charles Harris
• Stephan Hoyer
• Melissa Weber Mendonça
• Inessa Pawson
• Matti Picus
• Stéfan van der Walt
• Eric Wieser

Emeritus:

• Travis Oliphant (project founder, 2005-2012)
• Alex Griffing (2015-2017)
• Marten van Kerkwijk (2017-2019)
• Allan Haldane (2015-2021)
• Nathaniel Smith (2012-2021)
• Julian Taylor (2013-2021)
• Pauli Virtanen (2008-2021)
• Jaime Fernández del Río (2014-2021)

Teams

The NumPy project is growing; we have teams for

• code
• documentation
• website
• triage
• funding and grants

See the Team page for individual team members.

NumFOCUS Subcommittee

• Charles Harris
• Ralf Gommers
• Melissa Weber Mendonça
• Sebastian Berg
• External member: Thomas Caswell

Sponsors

NumPy receives direct funding from the following sources:

Institutional Partners

Institutional Partners are organizations that support the project by employing people that contribute to NumPy as part of their job. Current Institutional Partners include:

• UC Berkeley (Stéfan van der Walt, Sebastian Berg, Ross Barnowski)
• Quansight (Ralf Gommers, Melissa Weber Mendonça, Mars Lee, Matti Picus, Pearu Peterson)

Donate

If you have found NumPy useful in your work, research, or company, please consider a donation to the project commensurate with your resources. Any amount helps! All donations will be used strictly to fund the development of NumPy’s open source software, documentation, and community.

NumPy is a Sponsored Project of NumFOCUS, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity in the United States. NumFOCUS provides NumPy with fiscal, legal, and administrative support to help ensure the health and sustainability of the project. Visit numfocus.org for more information.

Donations to NumPy are managed by NumFOCUS. For donors in the United States, your gift is tax-deductible to the extent provided by law. As with any donation, you should consult with your tax advisor about your particular tax situation.

NumPy’s Steering Council will make the decisions on how to best use any funds received. Technical and infrastructure priorities are documented on the NumPy Roadmap.

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