Hi all, First off, this is a very belated announcement on behalf of the NumPy Steering Council of something that everyone actively working on NumPy is already aware of. The delay in this announcement is totally my fault - my apologies. With that out of the way, on to the announcement!
The NumPy team is excited to announce the appointment of Joren Hammudoglu ( @jorenham <https://github.com/jorenham/>) as the second NumPy Developer in Residence. For the second time, NumPy is in a position to use its project funds to pay for a full year of maintainer time through the NumPy Fellowship Program. Joren has been the driving force behind the improvements in NumPy's support for static typing since he started contributing in mid-2024. He has authored a lot of the improvements - from the annotations themselves to CI support and working towards fundamental design improvements like ndarray shape typing - and helps guide and integrate the work of other NumPy contributors in this area, and engages with upstream projects like MyPy and Pyright and the typing standards/PEP process to help move static typing support for the ecosystem as a whole forward. He also contributes widely to static typing support in the ecosystem, as the author of scipy-stubs, numtype and more. The NumPy Steering Council sees Joren’s appointment to this role as both recognition of his contributions and expertise as well as an opportunity to continue improving NumPy’s static typing support - an area that few maintainers are knowledgeable about but a significant fraction of end users tends to care about a lot. Joren's role is for the calendar year of 2025. NumPy has accumulated individual and corporate donations as well as payments from Tidelift to be able to create a full-time role for one year again, after the first such role, for Sayed, in 2023 <https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/IW7JF225DDQOTLNITT4PS4HENBVXWZVD/>. The funds are still transparently administered on Open Collective <https://opencollective.com/numpy>. There you will see a "general fund", currently with a ~$6,500 balance, and a Fellowship project with committed funding - currently with a ~$59,000 balance. Guidelines for using those funds are described in https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0048-spending-project-funds.html. We're excited about how impactful Joren's work has been to date and are anticipating that to continue! Cheers, Ralf
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