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, by last name):

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

Emeritus:

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

Teams

The NumPy project is growing! 🎉 We have teams for:

code
documentation
website
triage
survey
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

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, Ross Barnowski)
Quansight (Ralf Gommers, Melissa Weber Mendonça, Mars Lee, Matti Picus, Pearu Peterson)
NVIDIA (Sebastian Berg)

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.